Licensing Racket - How We Decide Who Is Allowed to Work, and Why It Goes Wrong

Rebecca Haw Allensworth pries open the inner workings of professional licensing boards, showing how they erect arbitrary barriers to work, corruptly influence markets for routine services such as hairdressing, and tolerate bad actors in high-stakes arenas like medicine and law. The Licensing Racket is a call for reform and, where needed, abolition.

About the author

Rebecca Haw Allensworth is David Daniels Allen Professor of Law at Vanderbilt University Law School. Her work appears in the Atlantic, the Wall Street Journal, and the New York Review of Books.

Summary

Rebecca Haw Allensworth pries open the inner workings of professional licensing boards, showing how they erect arbitrary barriers to work, corruptly influence markets for routine services such as hairdressing, and tolerate bad actors in high-stakes arenas like medicine and law. The Licensing Racket is a call for reform and, where needed, abolition.

Product details

• Authors: Rebecca Haw Allensworth
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 04.03.2025
• EAN: 9780674295421
• ISBN: 978-0-674-29542-1
• No. of pages: 304
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Business > General, dictionaries; Business and Management, LAW / Labor & Employment, Business & management, Health systems and services, Industry and industrial studies, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Labor / General, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Industries / Healthcare, Employment and labour law: general