The Costs of Government Regulation

Authors

Murray L. Weidenbaum, Washington University in St Louis

Files

Publication Date

2-1-1977

Series Information

Formal Publication 12

Publisher

Center for the Study of American Business (CSAB), Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, MO 63130

Description

Overregulation of business causes extra costs to the consumer. For the public good, government needs to find sensible and moderate means of regulation in order for business to fulfill its basic economic function.

Keywords

Government Regulation, Capital Formation, Public Policy, Benefit/Cost Analyses

Disciplines

Economics | Public Policy

Comments

The Center for the Study of American Business (CSAB), 1975-2001, is the predecessor of the Weidenbaum Center on the Economy, Government, and Public Policy at Washington University in St. Louis. Permanent URL: http://dx.doi/org/10.7936/K72Z13P3

DOI

doi:10.7936/K72Z13P3

Recommended Citation

Weidenbaum, Murray L., "The Costs of Government Regulation", Formal Publication 12, 1977, doi:10.7936/K72Z13P3.
Murray Weidenbaum Publications, https://openscholarship.wustl.edu/mlw_papers/43.