Interventionist Dynamics in the U.S. Energy Industry
The Dynamics of Intervention: Regulation and Redistribution in the Mixed Economy
ISBN: 978-0-76231-053-1, eISBN: 978-1-84950-237-5
Publication date: 1 January 2004
Abstract
A typology of interventionism can categorize regulations, taxes, and subsidies both theoretically and as they sequentially unfold in practice. This typology is inspired by, but broader than, the Mises interventionist thesis, which, similar to Madison's lament, recognizes the propensity of intervention to expand from its own shortcomings in the elusive quest to achieve economic rationality (Lavoie, 1982, p. 180; Ikeda, 1997, pp. 41–46; Bradley, 2006).
Citation
Bradley, R.L. (2004), "Interventionist Dynamics in the U.S. Energy Industry", Kurrild-Klitgaard, P. (Ed.) The Dynamics of Intervention: Regulation and Redistribution in the Mixed Economy (Advances in Austrian Economics, Vol. 8), Emerald Group Publishing Limited, Leeds, pp. 301-334. https://doi.org/10.1016/S1529-2134(05)08012-9
Publisher
:Emerald Group Publishing Limited
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