"In this book, Sidney Dekker sets out to identify the market mechanisms that explain how less government paradoxically leads to greater compliance burdens. This book gives shape and substance to a suspicion that has become widespread among workers in almost every industry: we have to follow more rules than ever-and still, things can go spectacularly wrong."

https://sidneydekker.com/compliance-capitalism

#HatTip to @dtauvdiodr for the reference.

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An explosion, when regulated, becomes an engine. The same is true of markets.

An explosion, unregulated, is a weapon of mass destruction. The same is true of markets.

When Adam Smith talked about "free markets", he meant free of economic rents (paying people to own things), not free of regulation.

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