He would often forge ahead fearlessly into newly deregulating markets, bully recalcitrant regulators into speeding reforms and develop clever financial vehicles that pressed to the very edge of the law.
And they should act to increase the supply of jobs by deregulating labour markets.
And the central bank could do its bit by deregulating the bond market.
Mr Koizumi has set three priorities: cleaning up the banks, reducing the government's huge budget deficit and deregulating the economy.
Rather than deregulating the labour market to make it easier for firms to employ more people, the ANC has passed labour laws that make it expensive to hire and almost impossible to fire.
EARLIER this year Nicolas Sarkozy, France's president, raised the possibility of deregulating the country's highly protected taxi sector.
Deregulating internal aviation and boosting low-cost travel are, arguably, among its greatest achievements.
Australia was, at the time, deregulating the sector and the student's thesis looked at the effect of that deregulation would have on his company.
Reducing corporation tax and deregulating the labour market can make Britain an easier place to conduct business, and he is doing a little of both.
Deregulating the fossil-fuels industry can be expected, broadly speaking, to benefit oil and gas companies and to hurt the environment.
Approving the pipeline will do no more to deter Mr Putin from interfering in Ukraine than last month's announcement by Total that it will invest in new drilling in South Africa.The idea that America can defeat Russian irredentism in Eastern Europe by deregulating its own energy industries is frankly ridiculous.
