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来源类型	Working Paper
规范类型	报告
DOI	10.3386/w10984
来源ID	Working Paper 10984
	The Determinants of Progressive Era Reform: The Pure Food and Drugs Act of 1906
	Marc T. Law; Gary D. Libecap
发表日期	2004-12-20
出版年	2004
语种	英语
摘要	We examine three theories of Progressive Era regulation: public interest, industry capture, and information manipulation by the federal bureaucracy and muckraking press. Based on analysis of qualitative legislative histories and econometric evidence, we argue that the adoption of the 1906 Pure Food and Drugs Act was due to all three factors. Select producer groups sought regulation to tilt the competitive playing field to their advantage. Progressive reform interests desired regulation to reduce uncertainty about food and drug quality. Additionally, rent-seeking by the muckraking press and its bureaucratic allies played a key role in the timing of the legislation. We also find that because the interests behind regulation could not shape the enforcing agency or the legal environment in which enforcement took place, these groups did not ultimately benefit from regulation in the ways originally anticipated.
主题	Health, Education, and Welfare ; Health ; History ; Other History ; Industrial Organization ; Regulatory Economics
URL	https://www.nber.org/papers/w10984
来源智库	National Bureau of Economic Research (United States)
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条目标识符	http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/568619
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Marc T. Law,Gary D. Libecap. The Determinants of Progressive Era Reform: The Pure Food and Drugs Act of 1906. 2004.

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