Colin Mayer is former Dean of the Said Business School at the University of Oxford. He is an Honorary Fellow of Oriel College, Oxford and of St Anne's College, Oxford. He is an Ordinary Member of the Competition Appeal Tribunal and a Fellow of the European Corporate Governance Institute (ECGI). He has served on the editorial boards of several leading academic journals and assisted in establishing the prestigious networks of economics, law and finance academics in Europe at the Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) and ECGI. He was a Harkness Fellow at Harvard University, a Houblon-Norman Fellow at the Bank of England, and the first Leo Goldschmidt Visiting Professor of Corporate Governance at the Solvay Business School, Université de Bruxelles. He was a director of Oxera between 1986 and 2010 and was instrumental in building the firm into what is now one of the largest independent economics consultancies in the UK.

• Preface


• Introduction


• Part I: How the Corporation is Failing Us


• 1: In the Beginning


• 2: Morals and Markets


• 3: Reputation


• 4: Regulation


• Part II: Why It Is Happening


• 5: Evolving Enterprises


• 6: Bought and Closed


• 7: Capital and Commitment


• Part III: What We Should Do About It


• 8: Value and Values


• 9: Governance and Government


• 10: Without End


• Appendix: References and Further Readings