The licensing racket : how we decide who is allowed to work, and why it goes wrong
"The Licensing Racket is a critique of the US system of professional licensing boards, which oversee a range of occupations and tens of millions of workers. The book combines legal and economic research with nearly two hundred interviews and observation of licensing board meetings, treating jobs like hairdressing alongside medicine and law as covered by "professional licensing." Rebecca Haw Allensworth goes beyond criticism of licensing as a form...