This is the Katori Daily Podcast for Monday, April 3rd, 2017.

I'm Caleb Brown.

Regulation magazine celebrates 40 years this year.

Peter Van Doren, the magazine's editor, has co-authored a new piece in the

40th anniversary issue, detailing the history and current state of regulation and the magazine's

role in fostering a greater understanding of regulatory process.

If you look through a masthead of Regulation magazine from, oh, let's say 30 years ago, you'd see the editor Antoninskalea.

And that's just a very, and that was when the magazine was at the American Enterprise Institute long before Cato picked it up.

Correct. In your experience, what, I mean, you were probably familiar with it. What was what it looked like?

Well, I started graduate school the same year

regulation started in 1977.

And I remember going to the Yale Social Science

library and seeing it on the shelf and the journals were arranged in alphabetical order and it was under R.

And I said, oh been reading the public interest, which was a publication of kind of social science, broadly construed where intellectuals and

and policy makers pontificated about things and regulation was much more

specific it was it was about economics and that and it's still that

in my view it's still unique it is the only economics rooted publication that's aimed

at outsiders that's aimed at the generally educated lay reader and as well it also reaches policy makers.

Seems to be the intent of regulation. I've read it many times and there are certain articles in regulation that over the years have just had

some incredible staying power in terms of their relevance to policymaking decades later.

Well, the most famous, probably the most famous article ever in regulations history is

by Bruce Yandel called Bootlegers and Baptist, the education of a regulatory economist.

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