Exploring the origins and motivations behind occupational licensing, this chapter discusses its impact on various professions, highlighting how it has been used to protect incumbents and restrict competition without significantly improving quality.
Our first lifeboat is hope — hope that government could actually do good. Brink Lindsey, formerly of the Cato Institute, and now Director of the Open Society Project at the Niskanen Center, talks to me about governmental capacity, and how we could make it better.