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2/2 #Bestof2021: Triumph of the Regulators: 2/2: Our regulatory agencies and their abduction by “interests.” @RichardAEpstein Hoover Institution

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🗓️ 29 December 2022

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2/2 #Bestof2021: Triumph of the Regulators: 2/2: Our regulatory agencies and their abduction by “interests.” @RichardAEpstein Hoover Institution

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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0:00.0

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0:35.0

This is CBS, I Am the World.

0:37.0

I'm John Batsworth, Professor Richard Epstein of the Hoover Institution.

0:40.4

We're discussing competitiveness, anti-competitiveness, monopoly,

0:45.5

bigness, but I want to get very specific here because Richard's colleague,

0:48.9

Cass Sunstein, who has served honorably in one or more administration,

0:54.9

certainly in the Obama administration.

0:56.6

And now, sympathetic to the Biden administration,

1:00.1

has written in protest of George Stigler's idea that industry acquires the regulatory body

1:07.0

or makes the regulations work for the industry.

1:10.6

And he objects on the basis of several instances where he participated

1:16.6

during the Obama administration in new regulations.

1:19.4

The one that seems most neutral to me, Richard, Mr. Sunstein writes,

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