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Governments in recent decades have employed public disclosure strategies to reduce risks, improve public and private goods and services, and reduce injustice. In the United States, these targeted transparency policies include financial securities disclosures, nutritional labels, school report cards, automobile rollover rankings, and sexual offender registries. They constitute a light-handed approach to governance that empowers citizens. However, as Full Disclosure shows these policies are frequently ineffective or counterproductive. Based on a comparative analysis of eighteen major policies, the authors suggest that transparency policies often produce information that is incomplete, incomprehensible, or irrelevant to the consumers, investors, workers, and community residents who could benefit from them. Sometimes transparency fails because those who are threatened by it form political coalitions to limit or distort information. To be successful, transparency policies must place the needs of ordinary citizens at centre stage and produce information that informs their everyday choices

Introduction : the challenge of labor's capital strategy / Tessa Hebb -- Collateral damage : do pension fund investments hurt workers? / Dean Baker and Archon Fung -- Social funds in the United States : their history, financial performance and social impacts / Eric Becker and Patrick McVeigh -- Labor's role in the shareholder revolution / Marleen O'Connor -- Building on success : labor-friendly investment vehicles and the power of private equity / Michael Calabrese -- Canadian labour sponsored investment funds : a model for U.S. economically targeted investments / Tessa Hebb and David Mackenzie -- Small benefits, big pension funds, and how governance reform can close the gap / Teresa Ghilarducci -- Overcoming institutional barriers on the ETI Superhighway / Jayne Zanglein -- Challenging Wall Street's conventional wisdom : defining a worker-owner view of value / Damon Silvers, Bill Patterson, J.W. Mason