Do Regulations Protect Consumers Or Crony Capitalists?




Upstream Ideas show

Summary: “Don't just get government out of the way, get it out of the corner of the wealthy.” If any state licensing regulations made sense or had substantial evidence to back them up, wouldn’t they be enacted in every state rather than differing depending on the power of the lobby in that state? Is government supposed to be an incubator of entrepreneurship? Vice President and Director of the Open Society Project and co-author of the book “The Captured Economy: How the Powerful Enrich Themselves, Slow Down Growth, and Increase Inequality,” Brink Lindsey joins Dan and Amy to discuss.