As commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration in the 1990s, Dr. David Kessler was known for regulating cigarettes, cutting time for drug approvals, and enforcing food labels. But ever since ...

From the Encyclopedia of Libertarianism’s biographical profile of Nobel economist George J. Stigler, one of the central figures of the Chicago School of Economics: In the early 1960s, George Stigler’s ...

In this fascinating book, Kessler (The End of Overeating), former commissioner of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, probes the nature of the “hijacked” mind, offering a straightforward and ...

that the regulated capture the regulators. One corollary of this is that no regulation remains on the books that does not suit the regulated. My lifetime of experience in the regulatory framework in ...

Citation Moss, David A., and Jonathan Lackow. "Early Radio Regulation, Capture Theory, and the Problem of History-by-Inference." October 2006.