"Federal and state regulatory agencies are increasingly making use of litigation as a means of regulation. In this book, three experts in regulatory law and theory offer a systematic analysis of the use of litigation to impose substantive regulatory measures, including a public choice-based analysis of why agencies choose to litigate in some circumstances. The book examines three major cases in which litigation was used to achieve regula ..."
"Politically portrayed as valiant family farms scratching out a living in the Jeffersonian mode, agriculture is instead the most regulated and subsidized sector of the industrial economy, deeply intertwined in environmental policies. Agricultural Policy and the Environment pulls back the wrappings that cloak U.S. agriculture and explains how and why politics has affected the traditional stewardship role played by agriculture. The stories ..."
""In The Political Limits of Environment Regulation," Bruce Yandle analyzes the Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) twenty-year record and concludes that the agency's monopoly powers have not always been conducive to positive environmental results. In fact, Yandle argues, special interest groups and lobbyists have often been very successful in obtaining federal legislation favoring large industries. In constructing his argument, Yand ..."
"Daniel K. Benjamin Dan Benjamin is a Professor of Economics at Clemson
University and was a Visiting Scholar at the Political Economy Research Center
in 1993. Author of numerous articles in professional journals, prior to joining the
Clemson faculty in 1985, Benjamin served as Chief of Staff at the U.S.
Department of Labor. ... His most recent book, coauthored with Roger LeRoy
Miller and Douglass C. North, is The Economics of Publi ..."
Bootleggers and Baptists(1st Edition) How Economic Forces and Moral Persuasion Interact to Shape Regulatory Politics by Adam Smith, BruceYandle Hardcover, 224 Pages, Published 2014 by Cato Institute ISBN-13: 978-1-939709-36-3, ISBN: 1-939709-36-9
"Policy analysts, academics, journalists, and even politicians lament the influence of money on politics. But in the political economy, politicians often carefully design regulations so that two very different interest groups will be satisfied. The Bootlegger and Baptist theory, an innovative public choice theory developed more than 30 years ago, holds that for a regulation to emerge and endure, both the “bootleggers,” who seek to obtai ..."
"Was the so-called “Reagan Revolution” a disappointment regarding the federal systems of special-interest regulation? Many of that administration’s friends as well as its opponents think so. But under what criteria? To what extent? And why? When Ronald Reagan was elected in 1980, the popular belief was that the size of government would be cut and that some of the regulatory excesses of the prior decade would be rolled back. However, the ..."
"It is easy enough to articulate claims that market processes generate negative
externalities that can be controlled through regulation. For example, a proposal to
lay a water pipeline to a growing community southwest of Austin, Texas, has
evoked substantial environmental opposition, based on claims about negative
externalities attributed to such things as increased traffic congestion. The claim in
this case is that if the costs of ..."
"In this provocative new book, Bruce Yandle explores the relationship between common law and environmental protection, and he discusses how people can limit environmental impact while living in a world of common access. Yandle examines today's most pressing environmental and natural resource management problems, including water quality, the ozone layer, acid rain, and access to groundwater contained in aquifers. He argues that common sen ..."
"After two decades of high-cost, low-output federal efforts to protect and improve environmental quality in the United States, the contributors to this volume argue that it is time to consider market-oriented solutions to environmental problems. Taking the Environment Seriously means learning from past experiences, initiating regulatory approaches that truly protect environmental property, and becoming serious about the business of manag ..."
"Written by specialists in law and economics, this book studies the role of liability rules in an effort to illustrate the possible consequences of statutory tampering with them. The contributors explain how statutory and common law liability rules evolved, how they work in current practice, and how changes in rules can alter economic outcomes in significant and unintended ways. Although price theory is the primary analytical tool employ ..."
"In the 1990s a grass-roots movement has sprung up among ordinary people to fight regulatory actions taking away their rights to land. In this collection of new essays, twelve distinguished scholars of economics, law, and public affairs address the history and causes of this movement. They document and analyze Supreme Court decisions on regulatory takings, enforcement activities of the Corps of Engineers and EPA, and case studies involvi ..."
Regulation and the Reagan Era Politics, Bureaucracy and the Public Interest (Independent studies in political economy) by Roger E. Meiners, BruceYandle Paperback, 304 Pages, Published 1989 by Holmes & Meier Pub ISBN-13: 978-0-8419-1271-7, ISBN: 0-8419-1271-8
"Was the so-called Reagan Revolution” a disappointment regarding the federal systems of special-interest regulation? Many of that administration’s friends as well as its opponents think so. But under what criteria? To what extent? And why? When Ronald Reagan was elected in 1980, the popular belief was that the size of government would be cut and that some of the regulatory excesses of the prior decade would be rolled back. However, the ..."
"Was the so-called “Reagan Revolution” a disappointment regarding the federal systems of special-interest regulation? Many of that administration’s friends as well as its opponents think so. But under what criteria? To what extent? And why? When Ronald Reagan was elected in 1980, the popular belief was that the size of government would be cut and that some of the regulatory excesses of the prior decade would be rolled back. However, the ..."
The Market Meets the Environment(336th Edition) Economic Analysis of Environmental Policy (The Political Economy Forum) by BruceYandle Hardcover, 336 Pages, Published 1999 by Rowman & Littlefield Publishers ISBN-13: 978-0-8476-9624-6, ISBN: 0-8476-9624-3
"What does free market environmentalism have to say about Love Canal, Cleveland's burning Cuyahogo River, golf course pollution, EPA's Toxic Release Inventory Requirement, nonpoint source pollution and river basin associations? In this revealing book Bruce Yandle has compiled eleven essays that address these concerns and provide the reader with an in-depth, market-based analysis of evolving environmental institutions and regulations. Thi ..."
"In the 1990s a grass-roots movement has sprung up among ordinary people to fight regulatory actions taking away their rights to land. In this collection of new essays, twelve distinguished scholars of economics, law, and public affairs address the history and causes of this movement. They document and analyze Supreme Court decisions on regulatory takings, enforcement activities of the Corps of Engineers and EPA, and case studies involvi ..."
"Until recently there have been almost no analyses of the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) as a political institution—that is, one driven both by internal incentives and by ties to a larger political body that, in turn, responds to its own political and economic pressures. Past research has usually viewed the FTC's mandate of antitrust and consumer protection as beyond controversy and has treated the agency as a well-intentioned guar ..."
"... John T. Wenders and Bruce L. Egan , " The Implications of Economic Efficiency for U.S. Telecommunications Policy " Telecommunications Policy 10 ( 1986 ) : 33-40 . 40 . 18. Wenders and Egan , “ The Implications of Economic Efficiency , p ..."
The Legacy of BruceYandle (Advanced Studies in Political Economy) by BruceYandle, Donald J. Boudreaux Paperback, Published 2020 by Mercatus Center At George Mason University 7/16/2020 ISBN-13: 978-1-942951-91-9, ISBN: 1-942951-91-4
Bootleggers and Baptists How Economic Forces and Moral Persuasion Interact to Shape Regulatory Politics by Adam Smith, BruceYandle 230 Pages, Published 2014 by Cato Institute ISBN-13: 978-1-939709-37-0, ISBN: 1-939709-37-7
"The Bootlegger/Baptist dynamic accordingly gives new clarity to the recent
outrage in 2011–12, which entailed the “99 ... In Grand Pursuit, Sylvia Nasar's
2011 book on economic thought, the author describes similar turmoil that arose
in the ..."