A Parable of Modern Mercantilism
Posted: May 18, 2012 Filed under: Job Creation, Licensing Leave a comment »http://mungowitzend.blogspot.com/2012/05/parable-of-modern-mercantilism.html?m=1
Should You Need the Government’s Permission to Work?
Posted: May 15, 2012 Filed under: Licensing Leave a comment »http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jr8qHv4hCVw&feature=share
License to Work
Posted: May 15, 2012 Filed under: Licensing Leave a comment »https://www.ij.org/images/pdf_folder/economic_liberty/occupational_licensing/licensetowork.pdf
Occupational Licensing, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
Posted: May 14, 2012 Filed under: Licensing, Uncategorized Leave a comment »http://econlog.econlib.org/archives/2012/05/occupational_li.html
It Takes 10 Times More Educational Hours to Cut Hair Than to Be a Paramedic, and Other Horrifying Truths About Occupational Licensing
Posted: May 9, 2012 Filed under: Licensing, Uncategorized Leave a comment »Sent to you via Google Reader
It Takes 10 Times More Educational Hours to Cut Hair Than to Be a Paramedic, and Other Horrifying Truths About Occupational Licensing
Should You Need the Government’s Permission to Work?
Posted: May 9, 2012 Filed under: Licensing Leave a comment »http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jr8qHv4hCVw&feature=share
Cartel-Buster Institute for Justice Goes Up Against the Portland Taxi Cartel with A Legal Challenge
Posted: April 26, 2012 Filed under: Licensing, Uncategorized Leave a comment »Sent to you via Google Reader
Cartel-Buster Institute for Justice Goes Up Against the Portland Taxi Cartel with A Legal Challenge
Liberating the Nurses
Posted: April 10, 2012 Filed under: Licensing Leave a comment »http://healthblog.ncpa.org/liberating-the-nurses/
Stossel on Illegal Everything
Posted: February 24, 2012 Filed under: Drugs, Licensing, Regulation, Uncategorized Leave a comment »Sent to you via Google Reader
Stossel on Illegal Everything
Just Say No to Embalming
Posted: January 21, 2012 Filed under: Licensing, Uncategorized Leave a comment »Sent to you via Google Reader
Just Say No to Embalming
A point of light
Posted: October 18, 2011 Filed under: Licensing, Uncategorized Leave a comment »Sent to you via Google Reader
A point of light
Free the Nurses–and the Patients
Posted: October 17, 2011 Filed under: Health Care, Licensing Leave a comment »http://econlog.econlib.org/archives/2011/10/free_the_nurses.html
Mr. Gov: Do you mind if I work, please?
Posted: August 3, 2011 Filed under: Licensing Leave a comment »http://mungowitzend.blogspot.com/2011/08/mr-gov-do-you-mind-if-i-work-please.html
Create Jobs By Repealing Unnecessary Laws
Posted: July 30, 2011 Filed under: Licensing, Uncategorized Leave a comment »Sent to you via Google Reader
Create Jobs By Repealing Unnecessary Laws
Nurses Can Practice Medicine — Only if They Work for Government
Posted: April 18, 2011 Filed under: Health Care, Licensing Leave a comment »http://healthblog.ncpa.org/nurses-can-practice-medicine-%E2%80%94-only-if-they-work-for-government/
Citizen Threatened for Being Too Smart!
Posted: February 3, 2011 Filed under: Licensing, Uncategorized Leave a comment »Sent to you via Google Reader
Citizen Threatened for Being Too Smart!
Orlando Authorities Battling the Scourge of Unlicensed Barbering
Posted: November 8, 2010 Filed under: Licensing Leave a comment »http://reason.com/blog/2010/11/08/orlando-authorities-battling-t
Milton Friedman – Health Care in a Free Market
Posted: March 29, 2010 Filed under: Consumer Safety, FDA, Health Care, Health Insurance, Licensing Leave a comment »http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-6t-R3pWrRw&feature=related
Occupational Licensing
Posted: March 26, 2010 Filed under: Licensing, Occupational Licensing Leave a comment »Analyzing the Extent and Influence of Occupational Licensing on the Labor Market:
http://www.nber.org/papers/w14979
Individual Freedom and Governmental Restraints:
Licensing Occupations: Ensuring Quality or Restricting Competition?:
http://www.amazon.com/Licensing-Occupations-Ensuring-Restricting-Competition/dp/0880992840/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1269609464&sr=1-1
THE SUSTAINED IMPACTS OF TAXI DEREGULATION
Posted: March 1, 2010 Filed under: Licensing, Regulation Leave a comment »“The Irish High Court decision in 2000 to deregulate entry to the taxi sector brought a large increase in taxi numbers and reduced waiting times for customers. These developments were sustained through to 2008 with increased output and reduced waiting times. In view of these lasting successes, arguments that taxi deregulation is unwise and unsustainable are examined.”
http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/journal/123305190/abstract
Occupational Licensing Abuse in Texas
Posted: December 8, 2009 Filed under: Licensing, Uncategorized Leave a comment »Sent to you via Google Reader
Occupational Licensing Abuse in Texas
The San Antonio Business Journal reports on an economic
liberty case filed today by the Texas Institute for Justice.
Wesley Hottot, lead attorney for the Institute for Justice
Texas Chapter, says Texas’ proud heritage as a beacon for
entrepreneurship is in danger “when the state tries to regulate
every new industry rather than trusting entrepreneurs and
consumers.”Hottot says eyebrow threading is an ancient technique for
removing unwanted eyebrow hairs using tightly wound cotton
thread. “Threading is a booming industry in Texas because it is
cheaper, faster and less painful than waxing,” he says.But now the [Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation] has
threatened this small business-based industry by requiring
practitioners to obtain what Hottot says are “expensive and
irrelevant licenses in Western-style cosmetology.”“Threading is not mentioned anywhere in state law, yet TDLR
expects threaders, some with over 20 years of experience, to
immediately stop working and spend $20,000 obtaining up to
1,500 hours of instruction in government-approved beauty
schools that do not even teach threading,” Hottot says.
“Further, threaders must pass government-approved cosmetology
exams that do not test threading.”
Read the whole thing
here. And click below for an IJ video on the case:
Daniel J. SmithSent Via Mobile Phone
Sting Operations…For Trade Workers?
Posted: November 10, 2009 Filed under: Licensing Leave a comment »Glad we have police resources dedicated to setting up sting operations to catch these criminals attempting to work without a state imprimatur…Lord knows what would happen if we let reputation and competition dictate which trade workers were hired rather than who knew the right politicians and bureaucrats:
“They’re conducting their quarterly crackdown on unlicensed trade workers. Sherriff’s departments have been running sting operations, with undercover officers and volunteers posing as customers luring contractors into a house with jackbooted thugs poised to arrest.”
http://www.fr33agents.com/1358/jackboots-and-the-american-dream/
HT: Issac Morehouse
