Cathie Jo Martin: Europe has LESS government regulation than America
Channel: hnneditor
Date: 2012-10-27

Cathie Jo Martin, professor of political science at Boston University, talks with HNN editor David Austin Walsh about her research into European regulatory states and her surprising conclusion: there's actually LESS regulation in Europe than there is in the United States.

So how have the Europeans managed to create some of the "most egalitarian societies in the world" without activist regulation? It goes back to the structural development of the relationship between business, agriculture, and labor at the beginning of the 20th century...