Book contents
- The Cambridge Handbook of Law and Entrepreneurship in the United States
- The Cambridge Handbook of Law and Entrepreneurship in the United States
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Contributors
- Introduction
- 1 Entrepreneurial Action
- Part I Regulating, Lawmaking, and Entrepreneurial Action
- 2 The Rise of Regulatory Affairs in Innovative Startups
- 3 Gauguin, Darwin, and Design Thinking
- 4 Between the Devil and the SEC
- 5 The Politics of Entrepreneurial Capital-Raising
- 6 Venture Exchange Regulation
- Part II Governance and Entrepreneurial Action
- Part III Legal Incentives Supporting (and Sometimes Discouraging) Entrepreneurial Action
5 - The Politics of Entrepreneurial Capital-Raising
from Part I - Regulating, Lawmaking, and Entrepreneurial Action
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 07 April 2022
- The Cambridge Handbook of Law and Entrepreneurship in the United States
- The Cambridge Handbook of Law and Entrepreneurship in the United States
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Contributors
- Introduction
- 1 Entrepreneurial Action
- Part I Regulating, Lawmaking, and Entrepreneurial Action
- 2 The Rise of Regulatory Affairs in Innovative Startups
- 3 Gauguin, Darwin, and Design Thinking
- 4 Between the Devil and the SEC
- 5 The Politics of Entrepreneurial Capital-Raising
- 6 Venture Exchange Regulation
- Part II Governance and Entrepreneurial Action
- Part III Legal Incentives Supporting (and Sometimes Discouraging) Entrepreneurial Action
Summary
Before he was appointed to his long-lasting seat on the Supreme Court, William O. Douglas (WOD to his entourage, apparently) was Chairman of the Securities & Exchange Commission. His tenure was productive and aggressive, taking on “the moneyed interests” harder than either of his two New Deal predecessors.1 Two subsequent SEC chairs, William Cary and Arthur Levitt, called Douglas their hero and inspiration. In the 1990s, Levitt put Douglas’s quote committing the SEC to be “the investor’s champion” against the forces of greed on the home page of the Commission’s new website.2
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- Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2022