Re: [Forum] Quoth who?

[Rodney F Weiher]

Posner's article on economic regulation distinguished it from social regulation,   which is still a separate and largely unexplained phenomenon.

See Jonathan Wiener "On the Political Economy of Global Environmental Regulation", Georgetown Law Journal, Vol. 87, #3 (February 1999).

Alex Tabarrok wrote:

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>The idea, called "regulatory capture" is associated with George
>Stigler.  Posner's paper "Theories of Economic Regulation," Richard
>Posner, Bell Journal of Economics and management science, Vol. 5, No. 2,
>pp.
>335-358, 1974. brought the idea ought very clearly as I recall but I am
>not aware of that quote in either.
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>Alex
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