Jailing Founders for Economic Collapse
Should business failure carry a life sentence when the nation suffers?
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We explore whether criminal liability for founders should extend to life imprisonment following systemic economic failures.
Bibliography
- Quarterly Report to Congress — SIGTARP (Special Inspector General for the Troubled Asset Relief Program), 2023
Used to cite the lack of executive prosecutions following the 2008 financial crisis.
- Global Financial Stability Report — International Monetary Fund (IMF), 2009
Source for the $12 trillion estimate of global losses due to the financial crisis.
- Entrepreneurship at a Glance — OECD, 2021
Provides data on how bankruptcy laws and social stigma affect entrepreneurship rates.
- Business Employment Dynamics — U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, 2023
Used for statistics on the survival and failure rates of new businesses.
- Basel III: A global regulatory framework — Basel Committee on Banking Supervision, 2011
Outlines the institutional approach to preventing systemic collapse through capital requirements.
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