For studnets of the School of Political Sciences
of TheUniversity of Haifa
| "[T]here are few projects more central to the social sciences than the study of regulation" [Braithwaite and Drahos, Global Business Regulation, 2000, p.10] |
"...Regulation is ancient. According to one authoritative account, we were kicked out of the Garden of Eden because of a regulatory dispute over food. Eve ingested a "controlled substance", as we would say in modern parlance. Unfortunately, she did so at a time when a regulatory had some clout. Nevertheless, he standard historical interpretation says that the regulatory episode served the public interest, and the modern theory of regulation lends support: the bureaucracy was small; the motives of the regulator were unimpeachable; knowledge was sufficiently complete to preclude error." Source: High, Jack (ed): Regulation, The University of Michigan Press, Ann Arbor, 1991, p.1 |
