Quotes About Regulation

free market required public regulation to keep predatory finance and rent seeking in check, and to keep basic infastructure in the public domain.

Today's monopolization of affluence by a rentier class avoiding taxes and public regulation by buying control of government is the same problem that confronted the classical economists. Their struggle to create a fairer economy produced the tools most appropriate to understand how today's economies are polarizing while becoming less productive.

Today's mainstream political and economic theories deny a positive role for government policy to constrain the large-scale concentration of wealth.

We must take action now, by permitting re-importation, to ensure that health care and prescription drugs remain accessible and affordable for everyone.

With the American people facing an epidemic of obesity andnhardened arteries, the "People's Department" [USDA, United States Department of Agriculture) doesn't regulate fat as much as it grants the [food] industry's every wish. Indeed when it comes to the greatest sources of fat--meant and cheese--the Department of Agriculture has joined industry as a full partner in the most urgent mission of all: cajoling the people to eat more.

The Center for Science in the Public Interest forced] PepsiCo to change the labeling of its Tropicana Peach Papaya Juice to reflect ... that it has neither peaches nor papaya and is not a juice.

When consumers tried to improve their health by shifting to skim milk, Congress set up a scheme for the powerful dairy industry through which it has quietly turned all that unwanted, surplus fat into huge sales of cheese—not cheese to be eaten before or after dinner as a delicacy, but cheese that is slipped into our food as an alluring but unnecessary extra ingredient. The toll, thirty years later: The average American now consumes as much as thirty-three pounds of cheese a year.

Some candy bars had more protein than many cereals. [Jean] Mayer dubbed them "sugar-coated vitamin pills" and wrote, "I contend that these cereals containing over 50% sugar should be labeled imitation cereal or cereal confections, and they should be sold in the candy section rather than in the cereal section.

Given these proclivities on the part of food companies—competitive, beholden to Wall Street, and in utter denial about their culpability—an intervention by Washington would certainly seem to be in order.

A lawn is nature under totalitarian rule.

Most of our political debates today are conducted in these terms—between those who favour unfettered markets and those who maintain that market choices are free only when they're made on a level playing field, only when the basic terms of social cooperation are fair.

Ninety-eight percent of the blue whales killed globally after the ban in 1966 were killed by Soviet whalers," wrote a historian, "as were 92 percent of the 1,201 humpbacks killed commercially between 1967 and 1978."99

We are concerned here with two basic types of uniquely human executive self-regulation. The first is executive self-regulation when the content is uniquely human forms of cognition or sociality, what we may call the individual self-regulation of unique content.

The second type of uniquely human executive regulation is what we may call social self-regulation. In this case, the individual appropriates the perspectives or values of others to use as a standard in the self-regulatory process.

Liberty did not on any account mean license.

Government cannot make man richer, but it can make him poorer." —Ludwig Von Mises

Government cannot make man richer, but it can make him poorer." —Ludwig Von Mises

Necessity reconciles and brings men together; and this accidental connection afterwards forms itself into laws

I am further of opinion that it would be better for us to have [no laws] at all than to have them in so prodigious numbers as we have.

Prison continues, on those who are entrusted to it, a work begun elsewhere, which the whole of society pursues on each individual through innumerable mechanisms of discipline.

Discipline "makes" individuals; it is the specific technique of a power that regards individuals both as objects and as instruments of its exercise.

The judges of normality are present everywhere. We are in the society of the teacher-judge, the doctor-judge, the educator-judge, the social worker -judge.

Schools serve the same social functions as prisons and mental institutions- to define, classify, control, and regulate people.

The 'Enlightenment', which discovered the liberties, also invented the disciplines.