The Captured Economy: How the Powerful Enrich Themselves, Slow Down Growth, and Increase Inequality Lindsey BrinkPevná vazba
The Captured Economy: How the Powerful Enrich Themselves, Slow Down Growth, and Increase Inequality Lindsey BrinkPevná vazba For years, America has been plagued by slow economic growth and increasing…
Specifikacia The Captured Economy: How the Powerful Enrich Themselves, Slow Down Growth, and Increase Inequality Lindsey BrinkPevná vazba
The Captured Economy: How the Powerful Enrich Themselves, Slow Down Growth, and Increase Inequality Lindsey BrinkPevná vazba
For years, America has been plagued by slow economic growth and increasing inequality. Teles identify a common factor behind these twin ills: breakdowns in democratic governance that allow wealthy special interests to capture the policymaking process for their own benefit. In The Captured Economy, Brink Lindsey and Steven M.
They also detail the most important cases of regulatory barriers that have worked to shield the powerful from the rigors of competition, thereby inflating their incomes: subsidies for the financial sector's excessive risk taking, overprotection of copyrights and patents, favoritism toward incumbent businesses through occupational licensing schemes, and the NIMBY-led escalation of land use They document the proliferation of regressive regulations that redistribute wealth and income up the economic scale while stifling entrepreneurship and innovation.