tehcnology forcing regulation

[Eban Goodstein <eban@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Folks, have had this query:

We need some examples of cases where government regulations have spurred
technological or other innovations with significant economic benefits
resulting.

Any good suggestions for summary resources?

thanks--

Eban Goodstein



Jim Devine wrote:
> Mark:
> > >The only "revolutionaries" to vote consistently Democratic over much
> > >of this stretch wore hoods and sheets and voted early and often.
>
> Louis Proyect  wrote:
> > This is absolutely true. Before the New Deal, there was little to
> > distinguish Democrat from Republican. We seem to have returned to the
> > status quo ante.
>
> If I remember correctly, before the New Deal, the DP was in favor of
> free trade, while the GOP was not. Nowadays, those roles have been
> partially reversed. There may have been some other differences between
> the parties, but of course their attitude toward capitalism was the
> same.
> --
> Jim Devine / "Mathematicians are like Frenchmen: whatever you say to
> them, they translate it into their own language, and forthwith it
> means something entirely different." -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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Eban Goodstein
Professor of Economics
Lewis & Clark College
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www.lclark.edu/~eban
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