Opinion
Winston: Practicing law should require zero mandatory licensing or credentials
“The legal profession can be free to provide credentialing all they want, but my sense is, you don't, you shouldn't have to have anything to be a lawyer. Compete on your own”
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Winston: Economic evidence shows antitrust actions rarely improve consumer welfare
“I went through all the evidence that economists had accumulated. I said, you know, where, where have they done well? You know, monopolization cases, collusion cases, merger cases. Where is there anything strong that shows, yes, consumer welfare, Has improved. …”
Insight
Winston: Occupational licensing only creates barriers, raises prices, and limits services
“So all occupational licensing is doing is putting up entry barriers to new suppliers, raising prices, and limiting service because, you know, there are not as many people around.”
Insight
Winston: Economics focuses on market failures while ignoring government failures
“So the theoretical instincts is that were that the action is really in market failures and very little attention Was given the government failures. And so as things go on, people think, yeah, market failure is a problem. They never stepped back and said, well,…”
Opinion
Winston: Government anti-poverty programs succeed only at unnecessarily high costs
“Poverty has declined, and some of government policies have certainly contributed to that, but it's so expensive to do that, and oftentimes there's, you know, multiple policies, you know, to address poverty as opposed to something that's more streamlined, more …”
Insight
Winston: Retrospective assessments are not part of government policymaking agendas
“There's a sort of, you know, checklist of things that you want to go through, but obviously this is not what government does, because you can have failure along at any of these points, and more often than not, we just go ahead with things, and there's never be…”
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Winston: Economists lack systematic evidence explaining why government interventions fail
“Is we really don't even know systematically why government fails. Oh, we can speculate about many things, but trying to find some hard evidence is this is why government fails. We have a theory. We test it. It applies to many things. We don't have that.”
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Winston: Government innovation subsidies and tax credits produce very poor results
“Very, very poor results, as you'd expect though, right? The private sector already has incentives.”
Opinion
Winston: Opening new competitive airports in the U.S. is impossible
“They make it really hard to open new airports, huh? That's kind of crazy. It's impossible. I mean, impossible.”
Assertion Supported
Winston: AV START Act died after McConnell refused a floor vote
“There was one piece of legislation in 2008 yeah, 2000. What was it? 18, 20 18 called AV start. It was held up in Congress. It was supported and McConnell didn't bring it to a vote. And it died and has not been resurrected.”
Assertion Supported
Winston: Government seed funding successfully backed breakthroughs like Google and genomics
“There's certain things that government certainly has done that have been successful. Obviously it helped fund led to Google. It's funding you know, genome project, you know, various sort of things like that, where they've given some, you know seed money for in…”
Assertion Supported
Winston: Intrastate airline deregulation in Texas and California sparked national deregulation
“There was intrastate deregulation of airlines in both California and Texas. Before we went to the national level, this was done at the state level, and national policy policymakers could see this is how this stuff is working, and they're, you know, they were a…”
