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Regulation and the Reagan Era
Politics, Bureaucracy and the Public Interest
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About The Book
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 growth of the federal government continued throughout the Reagan presidency and no agencies were phased out.
What were the apparently powerful forces that rendered most of the bureaucracy impervious to reform? In this book, professional economists and lawyers who were at, or near, the top of the decision-making process in various federal agencies during the Reagan years discuss attempts to reign in the bureaucracy. Their candid comments and personal insights shed new light on the susceptibility of the American government to bureaucratic interests.
This book is required reading for anyone wishing to understand the true reasons why meaningful, effective governmental reform at the federal level is so difficult, regardless of which political party controls the White House or Congress.
Product Details
- Publisher: Independent Institute (July 1, 2017)
- Length: 304 pages
- ISBN13: 9781598132991
Raves and Reviews
“The best book on Reagan’s overall regulatory relief effort, Regulation and the Reagan Era describes what happened when the rubber of the academic scribblers hit the road of agency recalcitrance to regulatory reform. The authors of this book find important lessons for scholars, policy-makers and regulatory practitioners.”
– James C. Miller III, Former Director, Office of Mana
“Regulation and the Reagan Era is an enlightening and insightful book. The policies of the regulatory agencies are dissected and their redistributive and inefficiency effects are revealed. The divergence between rhetoric and real experience in the Reagan period and the genesis of that divergence is made clear.”
– Simon Rottenberg, Professor of Economics, University
“Regulation and the Reagan Era is a sobering book that represents a healthy offset to the usual enthusiasms in explaining the destinies of governments.”
– Robert D. Tollison, Robert M. Hearin Chair of Busine
“In Regulation and the Reagan Era, both the accounts of what actually happened in individual agencies during the Reagan administration, or more precisely what did not happen, and the discussion of the political reasons, are extremely able.”
– Public Choice
“Regulation and the Reagan Era is a very good book. It is not only very sound analysis and good political advice, but it is actually readable.”
– Gordon Tullock, Professor of Economics and Law and D
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