Crony Capitalism vs. American Food - Reason.com
The deadly duo of big government and big food.
Baylen Linnekin | March 2, 2013
On Thursday this week I took part in a great panel discussion on crony capitalism in food and agriculture at the American Enterprise Institute.
Crony capitalism in this area, to me, means that a food business’s success is often wrongly contingent upon the business maintaining a close relationship with legislators and regulators.
The lively panel, moderated by the excellent Washington Examiner columnist and new AEI visiting fellow Tim Carney, is part of AEI’s exciting new Culture of Competition Project, which promotes a true market economy in which “rewards stem from work and merit rather than political connections.”
Besides me, the panel featured talks by fellow panelists (and fellow attorneys) Doug Povich, co-owner of the fabulous Red Hook Lobster Pound food truck, and Emily Broad Leib, who leads Harvard Law School’s great Food Law and Policy Clinic. I’d previously sat on respective panels with Povich and Broad Leib, and greatly admire their respective work to defend and strengthen the rights of small food entrepreneurs.
Like me, Carney was very pleased with this week's panel.
"I think the panel addressed a swath of issues where government intervention diminishes freedom, choice, and competition in the world of food," he told me by email.
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http://reason.com/archives/2013/03/02/americas-cronycopia
Baylen Linnekin | March 2, 2013
On Thursday this week I took part in a great panel discussion on crony capitalism in food and agriculture at the American Enterprise Institute.
Crony capitalism in this area, to me, means that a food business’s success is often wrongly contingent upon the business maintaining a close relationship with legislators and regulators.
The lively panel, moderated by the excellent Washington Examiner columnist and new AEI visiting fellow Tim Carney, is part of AEI’s exciting new Culture of Competition Project, which promotes a true market economy in which “rewards stem from work and merit rather than political connections.”
Besides me, the panel featured talks by fellow panelists (and fellow attorneys) Doug Povich, co-owner of the fabulous Red Hook Lobster Pound food truck, and Emily Broad Leib, who leads Harvard Law School’s great Food Law and Policy Clinic. I’d previously sat on respective panels with Povich and Broad Leib, and greatly admire their respective work to defend and strengthen the rights of small food entrepreneurs.
Like me, Carney was very pleased with this week's panel.
"I think the panel addressed a swath of issues where government intervention diminishes freedom, choice, and competition in the world of food," he told me by email.
Read the rest at:
http://reason.com/archives/2013/03/02/americas-cronycopia
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