Michael Greenstone finds the debate between proponents and opponents of government regulation "tired." Greenstone, director of the Hamilton Project at The Brookings Institution. Greenstone argues that regulation has both costs and benefits. What we need to do, he says, is to come up with better ways of measuring which regulations work. And by work, he means simply that the benefits of the regulations outweighs the costs those regulations place on business. He discusses the need to better evaluate potential regulations, across federal agencies, in this @Brookings interview:
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07-07-2011 8:27 AM
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Graham Griffith