Study: Even Well-Intentioned Regulators Do More Harm Than Good
Bureaucrats who intend to do good still restrict competition and suppress liberty
CEI’s Soriya Chhe and Marin Murdock’s study The Protection Paradox: Good Intentions, Bad Market Outcomes was cited by Reason in their assessment of the regulatory state.
The Protection Paradox: Good Intentions, Bad Market Outcomes, published August 20 by Soriya Chhe and Marin Murdock of the Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI), emphasizes that as government goes about the business of providing services and exercising authority, any given American should expect that “the government will respect (and ideally protect) her rights to life, liberty, and property. And if the government falls short of fully protecting those rights, it should at least refrain from undermining them.”
Read the full article at Reason.