The Political Economy of Controls: ComplexityAnne O. Krueger, Roderick Duncan
NBER Working Paper No. 4351 Increasing complexity of regulation over time is a regular empirical phenomenon whenever political processes attempt to control economic activity. In this paper it is argued that a tendency toward increasing complexity of controls is probably inherent in most efforts to regulate, and that the great likelihood that it will occur should be taken into account in initial policy formulation. Economic policy analyses may be correct as formulated on the assumption that the initial policies will be adopted and not be altered, but be wrong if it is recognized that increased complexity may be an inevitable cost of the policy.
Published: Stetting, Lange, Knad Erik Svendsen, and Ebbi Yndgaard (eds.) Global Change and Transformation. Copenhagen: Handelshoyskolens Forlag, 1993. This paper is available as PDF (3219 K) or DjVu (239 K) (Download viewer) or via email.
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