Regulatory capture’s antecedents in political thought—which date back to ancient Greece—inform the modern concept.
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Making it Look Like a Struggle
For capture to be sustainable, the regulator has to find ways to be perceived as being tough on the regulated without really hurting them.
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Preventing Regulatory Capture
When a regulation’s benefits exceed its costs, simplicity and interdisciplinary processes are essential to reducing capture.
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Challenges in Measuring Regulatory Capture
We as a society have failed to settle upon what we think are the measurements, the correlates, the red flags, and the warning signs needed to identify regulatory capture.
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The ‘Argumentum a Crise’: So Powerful, So Prone to Misuse
Since the financial crisis and the related euro debt crisis, the use of the argumentum a crise has been ubiquitous. A more selective use of the argumentum a crise would improve the quality of public policy discourse.
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The Surprising Failure Of Food Labeling
If lawmakers want to improve the dietary choices of Americans, the first thing they need to recognize is that the problem is not information.
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ProMarket Interview: Alan Blinder on Over-Regulating Financial Markets
In order to get optimal regulation in the financial world, says Alan Blinder, the former Vice Chair of the Federal Reserve, one should seek to over-regulate.
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