Bottleneckers: Gaming the Government for Power and Private Profit
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| Rating | : | 4.85 (907 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1594039070 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 440 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-03-27 |
| Language | : | English |
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Jim Dunlap said Table of Contents don't work. No Endnotes.. Links in Table of Contents don't work. No Endnotes. So that destroys a good bit of the value of the book. Needs to be fixed. Once fixed, I would give the book four stars. Citations are often week. No citations to specific state statutes. Just citations to other works. This is insufficient in my opinion.. Thom said A very good read. I wish he got into the many. A very good read. I wish he got into the many other avenues of the Bottleneckers, such as programmatic accrediting bodies that operates like as trade associations. America in economic decline Dave Pechan Commentary on the sad state of free enterprise in a declining capitalist state.
While Mellor was president, IJ litigated five US Supreme Court cases, winning four. Under Mellor’s leadership, IJ has grown from a five-person start-up into a law firm with a nearly hundred-member staff, including over forty attorneys and an annual budget of $20 million.Dick Carpenter is a director of strategic research at the Institute for Justice and a professor at the University of Colorado Colorado Springs.. (Chip) Mellor serves as chairman and founding general counsel of the Institute for Justice. He has litigated cutting-edge constitutional cases, notably achieving the first federal appellate court victory for economic liberty under the Fourteenth Amendment since the New Deal. He cofounded I
In an era when the Left hates fat cats” and the Right despises crony capitalists,” now there is an artful and memorable one-word pejorative they can both get behind: bottleneckers.A bottlenecker” is anyone who uses government power to limit competition and thereby reap monopoly profits and other benefits. Bottlenecker (n): a person who advocates for the creation or perpetuation of government regulation, particularly an occupational license, to restrict entry into his or her occupation, thereby accruing an economic advantage without providing a benefit to consumers.The Left, Right, and Center all hate them: powerful special interests that use government power for their own private benefit. Bottleneckers work with politicians to constrict competition, entrepreneurial innovation, and opportunity. They thereby limit consumer choice; drive up consumer prices; and they support politicians who willingly overstep the constitutional limits of their powers to create, maintain, and expand these anticompetitive bottlenecks.The Institute for Justice’s new
He has litigated cutting-edge constitutional cases, notably achieving the first federal appellate court victory for economic liberty under the Fourteenth Amendment since the New Deal. (Chip) Mellor serves as chairman and founding general counsel of the Institute for Justice. While Mellor was president, IJ litigated five US Supreme Court cases, winning four. Under Mellor’s leadership, IJ has grown from a five-person start-up into a law firm with a nearly hundred-member staf