Failure to regulate regulation could prove costly
Irish Times, 18th May 2012
COLIN SCOTT
ECONOMICS: REGULATION HAS been a boom area of public policy throughout much of the industrialised world over the last four decades.
The popularity of regulation is not difficult to understand – it offers a relatively low-cost way for governments to signal that they are addressing perceived policy problems, a motivation that becomes even more important during periods of budgetary crisis.....read on