621. Is Professional Licensing a Racket?

621。专业许可是球拍吗?

Freakonomics Radio

社会与文化

2025-02-07

55 分钟
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Licensing began with medicine and law; now it extends to 20 percent of the U.S. workforce, including hair stylists and auctioneers. In a new book, the legal scholar Rebecca Allensworth calls licensing boards “a thicket of self-dealing and ineptitude” and says they keep bad workers in their jobs and good ones out — while failing to protect the public.
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