Regulatory Policy and the Social Sciences

Regulatory Policy and the Social Sciences brings together leading scholars from law, political science, psychology, sociology, and anthropology to examine regulation as a complex social, cultural, and political phenomenon, not merely an economic one. Originating from the 1982 Caltech/NSF Conference on Regulation and the Social Sciences, the volume begins with Roger Noll’s overview and multidisciplinary synthesis of research on regulation, situating the well-developed economics literature al...