Innovation and Regulatory Vigilance

Cristie Ford, Innovation and the State: Finance, Regulation, and Justice (2017).

Cary Coglianese

Nearly everyone sings innovation’s praises. Innovation brings progress and prosperity. It leads to a better tomorrow. Yet, is innovation really an unalloyed good? In a new book, legal scholar Cristie Ford argues that innovation actually “presents a clear and persistent risk—perhaps the single most significant and under-analyzed risk—to regulation itself.” (P. 215.)

Innovation poses such an “existential challenge” to regulation, Ford argues in Innovation and the State: Finance, Regulation, and […]