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Lecture on Unintended Consequences and Intended Non-Consequences

August 18, 2009
By Kevin R. Kosar
Lecture on Unintended Consequences and Intended Non-Consequences

Christopher DeMuth, former head of the American Enterprise Institute, and now its D. C. Searle Senior Fellow, gave a lecture  on public policy this past June. He reviewed the neoconservative and Chicago free market criticisms of government action, and focuses much of his lecture on regulatory policy. DeMuth forcefully argued that regulation frequently has...
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