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Fred and Eleanor Glimp Professor of Economics, FAS
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How to Deregulate Cities and States; Cost-benefit analysis and 'lookbacks' could lift the unnecessary burdens of occupational licensing. Edward Glaeser, Cass Sunstein, August 24, 2014, Opinion. "To engage in the gentle arts of design, hair cutting, beauty treatment and tree trimming, should people really be required to run some kind of regulatory gauntlet? A widely overlooked part of Paul Ryan's antipoverty plan draws attention to the problem of occupational licensing, and it rightly calls on states and local governments "to begin to dismantle these barriers to upward mobility..." Link