legal changes

[William S. Lear]

On Thursday, December 23, 1999 at 19:17:22 (-0500) Doug Henwood writes:
>[A friend writes... Can any legal experts on the list help him out? - Doug]
>
>I'm wondering where I could find a good, and ideally concise, summary of
>the major federal legal changes from the late '70s to the late '80s that
>make up what we all refer to as "financial deregulation". You know --
>stuff like raising the FDIC insured account max to $100k, expanding the
>types of investments S+Ls could make, and so on. Ideally this summary
>would also include plant-closure laws (if any), tax laws encouraging
>firms to move plants offshore, and so on.
>
>I need this b/c a chapter of my diss (on neoliberalism) concerns the
>rise of the finance and producer-service sectors, not only in terms of
>their growing share of total corporate profits since 1980, but also
>their growing influence in managing, facilitating and profiting off of
>the activities of the other sectors (i.e. getting rich by lending $$$ to
>a manufacturing company so it can do a takeover of another mfg company).
>
>I know this is a tall order, but if anyone knows of a good source, it's
>you. Thanks in advance for any help you can provide, and merry
>xmas/happy soltice and all that.

Your friend might try:

Richard Dale, *International Banking Deregulation: The Great Banking
Experiment* (Blackwell Publishers, 1992).

Since this is at home and I'm at work, I don't know if this quite fits
the bill, but perhaps it would point in the right direction.

Bill