Deregulation – Stephen Hicks, Ph.D.

Blamestorming and “Deregulation caused the financial crisis” [Good Life series]

1 Comment / Economics, Politics, The Good Life / Stephen Hicks

You’ve heard the claim: “Deregulation caused the crisis.” In the years leading up to 2008, the story goes, bad economists convinced bad politicians to deregulate the money/banking/finance sector of the economy, and bad capitalists then enjoyed an orgy of greed that caused the system to go haywire. Nobel-Prize-winners Joseph Stiglitz and Paul Krugman have signed […]

Blamestorming and “Deregulation caused the financial crisis” [Good Life series] Read More »

Collected posts on the financial crisis

Leave a Comment / Business, Economics, Politics / Stephen Hicks

Links to my posts over the last three years on the causes of the crisis. This is an ongoing project, and I’ll add new items to the Financial Crisis page as they are posted. Ten posts: 1. What is the US economy? Introduction. Before blaming the economic crisis on either government regulation or free enterprise,

Collected posts on the financial crisis Read More »

Deregulation? The Federal Register’s size

2 Comments / Economics, Politics / Stephen Hicks

Following up on my post entitled “When was the financial sector deregulated?” Another crude measure of regulation or deregulation is to count the number of pages in the U.S. Federal Register. The Federal Register is the government’s daily publication of new and proposed rules. Some of the rules are trivial and some have large impact;

Deregulation? The Federal Register’s size Read More »