Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents iii
3. List of figures and tables v
4. Notes on contributors vi
5. Acknowledgment viii
6. Ineffective policies: causes and consequences of bad policy decisions 1
7. Giving serious thought to bad policy and the state of democracy 15
8. Ineffective policies, contested goals
9. From good to bad? The contested desirability of economic growth 31
10. What a bad policy idea! Exploring views on wind farms in Italy 46
11. Satoshi meets the state: bad policy in Uncle Sam’s initial encounters with Bitcoin and distributed ledger technology 67
12. Toronto’s failed smart city: intellectual property, data, and bad governance 83
13. Letting the solution define the problem: Canada’s COVID Alert app as a case of failed policy 98
14. Ineffective policies, negative outcomes
15. Toxic growth in the circular economy: is the EU Plastics Strategy a bad policy? 115
16. The environment, megacity growth, and ineffective policy: housing policy reform in Ontario 130
17. Death by a thousand clarifications: how the Volcker Rule’s inevitable ambiguity makes it easy to erode and hard to defend while leaving the power of banks unchecked 154
18. Borrowing money from the fringes: the problematic regulation of payday loans in Canada and the US 171
19. The bad impacts of ineffective policies
20. Bad policies and the erosion of trust in comparative perspective 195
21. The path forward: addressing bad policy for the sake of good policy 214
22. Index 228