Government regulation

Free to Choose Chapter 7: Who Protects the Consumer - The Market Solution

In Part 1, we saw how regulatory agencies – the ICC, the FDA – were created to protect consumers and ended up protecting the industries they were supposed to regulate. But the Friedmans are not done. What about product safety? What about the environment? What about energy? And if government regulation keeps failing, what is the alternative? Part 2 answers these questions – and the answer is not what you might expect.

Free to Choose Chapter 7: Who Protects the Consumer - Regulatory Agencies

Imagine you hire a bodyguard to protect you. A few years later, you realize the bodyguard is now working for the people you needed protection from – and you are still paying his salary. That, in short, is what happened with most of America’s consumer protection agencies. They were created to defend ordinary people. They ended up defending the industries they were supposed to regulate.

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