Government Regulation and the Slowdown in Innovation

Authors

Murray L. Weidenbaum, Washington University in St Louis

Files

Publication Date

10-1-1977

Series Information

Occasional Paper 7

Publisher

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

Description

The excessively rapid expansion of government regulation of business is slowing down the rate of innovation and scientific progress in the United States. The answer is not to eliminate all forms of government regulation, however. Rather, the sensible approach is to reform the existing array of regulation so as to achieve important social objectives with fewer of the adverse side effects.

Keywords

Government Regulation, Science and Technology, Innovation, Progress, Regulatory Reform

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/K76H4FKS

DOI

doi:10.7936/K76H4FKS

Recommended Citation

Weidenbaum, Murray L., "Government Regulation and the Slowdown in Innovation", Occasional Paper 7, 1977, doi:10.7936/K76H4FKS.
Murray Weidenbaum Publications, https://openscholarship.wustl.edu/mlw_papers/73.