“The great fear that hung over the business community in the 1970s was death by regulation, and the great goal of the conservative movement, as it rose to triumph in the 1980s, was to remove that threat - to keep OSHA, the EPA, and the FTC from choking off entrepreneurship with their infernal meddling in the marketplace.” GoalCommunityBusinessMovementThreatRoseConservativeEntrepreneurshipTriumphRemoveRegulationHungMarketplaceChokeMeddlingEpa Author:Thomas Frank
“The development of European integration can be divided into two phases. The first era ended with the Maastricht Treaty. It was a liberalization phase, with the main goal of European integration at the time being the removal of various barriers and borders in Europe. The second phase is a homogenization or standardization phase, one that involves regulation from the top and growing control over our lives. This no longer has anything to do with freedom and democracy.” FirstsTwoGoalDemocracyOur LivesGrowingDevelopmentEuropeVariousErasBordersBarriersDividedRegulationPhasesIntegrationTreatiesRemovalStandardizationEuropean Integration Author:Vaclav Klaus
“You can't overestimate what happens when you encourage regulators to believe that the goal of regulation is not to regulate.” BelieveHappensGoalRegulationOverestimateRegulators Author:Joseph Stiglitz