New book, entitled Corporate Governance: Promises Kept, Promises Broken, from a leading scholar of the subject (via Prawfsblawg):

In the wake of the Enron meltdown and other corporate scandals, the United States has increasingly relied on Securities and Exchange Commission oversight and the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, which set tougher rules for boards, management, and public accounting firms to protect the interests of shareholders. Such reliance is badly misplaced. In Corporate Governance, Jonathan Macey argues that less government regulation -- not more -- is what's needed to ensure that managers of public companies keep their promises to investors....