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Bottleneckers: Gaming the Government for Power and Private Profit

Bottleneckers: Gaming the Government for Power and Private Profit

Mellor, William
Carpenter II, Dick M.

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Business GeneralGeneral Political Science

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ISBN10: 1594039070
ISBN13: 9781594039072
Publisher: Encounter Books
Published: Dec 13 2016
Pages: 440
Weight: 1.55
Height: 1.40 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Bottlenecker (n): a person who advocates for the creation or perpetuation of government regulation, particularly an occupational license, to restrict entry into his or her occupation, thereby accruing an economic advantage without providing a benefit to consumers.

The Left, Right, and Center all hate them: powerful special interests that use government power for their own private benefit. In an era when the Left hates fat cats and the Right despises crony capitalists, now there is an artful and memorable one-word pejorative they can both get behind: bottleneckers.

A bottlenecker is anyone who uses government power to limit competition and thereby reap monopoly profits and other benefits. Bottleneckers work with politicians to constrict competition, entrepreneurial innovation, and opportunity. They thereby limit consumer choice; drive up consumer prices; and they support politicians who willingly overstep the constitutional limits of their powers to create, maintain, and expand these anticompetitive bottlenecks.

The Institute for Justice's new book Bottleneckers coins a new word in the American lexicon, and 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.

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