Dick Carpenter on Bottleneckers

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🗓️ 8 January 2018

⏱️ 75 minutes

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Dick Carpenter of the Institute for Justice and author of Bottleneckers talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about his book--a look at how occupational licensing and other regulations protect existing job holders from competition.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Econ Talk, part of the Library of Economics and Liberty.
0:08.1	I'm your host, Russ Roberts of Stanford University's Hoover Institution.
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0:49.8	Thank you for a great year, and I hope to make 2018 better.
0:53.0	Today is December 19, 2017.
0:55.6	My guest is Dick Carpenter, who is a director of strategic research for the Institute for
1:01.2	Justice.
1:02.2	He is the author with William Miller of bottle neckers, gaming the government for power
1:07.0	and private profit.
1:09.0	It's a book about occupational licensing and related issues, topics that we've talked
1:13.0	about recently here at econtalk, and that's going to be the subject of today's conversation.
1:17.6	Dick, welcome to econtalk.
1:19.4	My pleasure, thank you.
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