Bootleggers, Baptists, and the risks of rent seeking

Here "social" and "economic" regulations are defined as economists typically define them: health/safety/environmental vs. price/entry/antitrust.

social regulations are more responsive to political influence than economic regulations, because public backlash to rent seeking is minimized with moral or social arguments #SocSciResearch https://t.co/v6jAV414Hb