2/2: #Bestof2021: As the Regulators take charge of the Silicon Valley Bank: 2/2: Our regulatory agencies and their abduction by “interests.” @RichardAEpstein Hoover Institution. (Originally posted August 3, 2021)
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2/2: #Bestof2021: As the Regulators take charge of the Silicon Valley Bank: 2/2: Our regulatory agencies and their abduction by “interests.” @RichardAEpstein Hoover Institution. (Originally posted August 3, 2021)
Theory of Regulatory Capture* by the Regulated. Richard A Epstein, Tisch Professor of Law NYU Bedford Senior Fellow; Hoover Institution; senior lecturer, University of Chicago Law School. @RichardAEpstein
https://promarket.org/2021/07/22/george-stigler-theory-economic-regulation-interest-group-politics-industry/
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| 0:37.3 | I'm John Batsow with Professor Richard Epstein of the Hoover Institution. |
| 0:40.8 | We're discussing competitiveness, anti-competitiveness, monopoly, |
| 0:46.0 | bigness, but I want to get very specific here because Richard's colleague, Cass Sunstein, |
| 0:50.8 | who has served honorably in one or more administration, |
| 0:55.2 | certainly in the Obama administration and now sympathetic to the Biden administration, |
| 1:00.2 | has written in protest of George Stigler's idea that industry acquires the regulatory |
| 1:06.8 | body or makes the regulations work for the industry. |
| 1:11.0 | And he objects on the basis of several instances where he participated during the Obama administration |
| 1:18.7 | in new regulations. |
| 1:19.7 | The one that seems most neutral to me, Richard. |
| 1:22.4 | Mr. Sunstein writes in 2014, the Department of Transportation issued a final rule |
| 1:27.4 | mandating rearview cameras in new motor vehicles. |
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