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Public Choice Issues in Social Regulation
Author(s) -
Ricketts Martin
Publication year - 1994
Publication title -
economic affairs
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.24
H-Index - 18
eISSN - 1468-0270
pISSN - 0265-0665
DOI - 10.1111/j.1468-0270.1994.tb00205.x
Subject(s) - government (linguistics) , government regulation , public economics , environmental regulation , control (management) , business , public choice , economics , political science , politics , law , philosophy , linguistics , management , china
The regulatory activity of government is now pervasive, acting like a tax and pushing up costs. Public choice analysis shows that producer and other groups try to capture regulatory control to minimise its impact. Deregulatory trends in the US have been accompanied by the growth of environmental and health and safety regulation both in the US and in the UK and Europe.