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Bruce Yandle on Bootleggers and Baptists
Episode 33

Bruce Yandle on Bootleggers and Baptists

Bruce Yandle of Clemson University explains why politics makes such strange bedfellows and the often peculiar alliance of self-interested special interests with more altruistic motives. He uses his insights to explain some of the seemingly perverse but politically understandable effects of the Clean Air Act, the tobacco settlement and other regulation.

EconTalk

January 15, 20071h 8m

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Show Notes

Bruce Yandle of Clemson University explains why politics makes such strange bedfellows and the often peculiar alliance of self-interested special interests with more altruistic motives. He uses his insights to explain some of the seemingly perverse but politically understandable effects of the Clean Air Act, the tobacco settlement and other regulation.

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economicspolitical science econlibclean air actbruce yandle