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#Bestof2022: 2/2: 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

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John Batchelor

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🗓️ 23 December 2023

⏱️ 9 minutes

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#Bestof2022: 2/2: 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/

* Regulatory agencies come to be acquired by the interests they regulate and not by the public interest.

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Hey, okay, I promise I'll keep this debrief short. So I just had my date with the Bumble

0:05.3

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the front so I could actually see. It was amazing you know like I

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really felt good vibes oh and he sent me a let me know when you get home

0:17.1

message that makes him really hot. Kindness is sexy. Find it on Bumble.

0:24.0

This is CBS.

0:29.0

I on the world.

0:30.0

I'm John Batcheworth.

0:31.0

Professor Richard Epstein of the Hoover Institution. We're discussing

0:34.7

competitiveness, anti-competitiveness, monopoly, bigness, but I want to get very specific

0:41.0

here because Richard's colleague cast

0:42.6

Sunstein who has served honorably in one or more

0:46.6

administration certainly in the Obama administration and now

0:50.9

sympathetic to the Biden administration has written in protest of George Stiggler's idea

0:56.4

that industry acquires the regulatory body or makes the regulations work for the industry and he objects on the basis of several

1:08.1

instances where he participated during the Obama administration in new regulations.

1:12.8

The one that seems most neutral to me, Richard,

1:15.5

Mr. Sunstein Rice in 2014, the Department of Transportation

1:19.4

issued a final rule mandating rearview cameras in new motor vehicles. The rule was strenuously

1:25.0

opposed by automobile companies. It was projected to impose more than $600 million in annual costs.

1:31.6

Mr Sunstein, if I understand correctly, is saying this was for the public good,

1:36.2

we did it without factionalism in the government and the industry did not benefit from it.

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