Tomorrow 17th April 2021 is the official release date for Professor Neil J. Mitchell's new book Why Delegate? In his new book, Neil investigates the incentives to delegate and the risks we take in doing so. He demonstrates how a new, modified understanding of the simple structure of the delegation relationship – the principal-agent relationship, as economists have described it – simplifies a myriad of important and seemingly disparate problems in private and public life. Using real-world case studies including child abuse in the Catholic Church, the Volkswagen pollution scandal, and FIFA corruption, Neil illustrates the broad functionality of delegation logic and the wide range of incentives at work in these relationships.
Why Delegate? is available to order online at Oxford University Press.