Bottleneckers
Subtitle: Gaming the Government for Power and Private Profit
Publisher: Encounter Books
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 355
ISBN-13: 9781594039072
Subjects: Licenses; Trade regulation, united states; Trade and professional associations
Description: A "bottlenecker" is anyone who uses government power to limit competition, limit consumer choice, drive up consumer prices, and reap monopoly profits and other benefits. This book provides a rich history and well-researched examples of bottleneckers in one occupation after another--from alcohol distributors to taxicab cartels--pointing the way to positive reforms. --