All Posts Tagged With: "occupational licensing"
First, Let’s Deregulate All the Lawyers
Organized groups—businesses, labor unions, professional associations—frequently lobby for laws and regulations to shield them from having to face wide open competition. Competition is great everywhere else, they say, but our particular field is different. We need sensible controls and regulations to protect the public against incompetence and the evils of cutthroat competition. What the group [...]
1Jun1997 | George C. Leef | 0 comments | ContinuedGovernment Licensing: The Enemy of Employment
Dr. Yates is Bradley Visiting Fellow at the Center for Economic Personalism at the Acton Institute for the Study of Religion and Liberty. He is the author of Civil Wrongs: What Went Wrong with Affirmative Action, published by ICS Press in 1994. Not long ago I found myself without a job. The experience offered me [...]
1Jul1996 | Steven Yates | 1 comment | ContinuedA Sales Pitch for Laissez-Faire Health Care
A Health-Care System Based on Liberty, Property, and Consent Would Have Many Benefits
1Jul1995 | Daniel B. Klein | 6 comments | Continued-
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