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Preventing Regulatory Capture: Special Interest Influence and How to Limit It. David Moss, October 2013, Book. "When regulations (or lack thereof) seem to detract from the common good, critics often point to regulatory capture as a culprit. In some academic and policy circles it seems to have assumed the status of an immutable law. Yet for all the ink spilled describing and decrying capture, the concept remains difficult to nail down in practice…
| David Moss
Inequality and Decision Making: Imagining a New Line of Inquiry, David Moss, June 14, 2013, Paper. "The substantial increase in inequality in the United States over the past three decades has provoked considerable debate, with some analysts characterizing rising inequality as among the greatest threats facing the nation and others dismissing it as little more than a hiccup – or even celebrating it as a favorable development – in the progress of…
| David Moss
Government and Markets: Toward a New Theory of Regulation. David Moss, January 2012, Book. "As the financial crisis has shown, neither traditional market failure models nor public choice theory, by themselves, sufficiently inform or explain our current regulatory challenges, nor point us toward the best solutions. Regulatory studies, long neglected in an atmosphere focused on deregulatory work, are in critical need of new models and theories…