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George Stigler

The state — the machinery and power of the state — is a potential resource or threat to every industry in the society. With its power to prohibit or compel, to take or give money, the state can and does selectively help or hurt a vast number of industries.

George Stigler, “The theory of economic regulation,” The Bell Journal of Economics and Management Science (1971).

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