BRUCE YANDLE, an expert on regulation, once used the phrase "bootleggers and Baptists" to describe unlikely political coalitions that form for mutual advantage.
"The system needs to be re-examined, top to bottom," said Eliot R. Cutler, an expert on regulation and energy policy at the Beijing office of Akin Gump, an international law firm.
"The Wild West approach to protecting public health and safety is what you get when you give companies too much economic freedom and not enough responsibility and accountability," said Thomas O. McGarity, a professor at the University of Texas at Austin School of Law and an expert on regulation.
Noah Sachs, an associate professor at the University of Richmond School of Law in Virginia and an expert in regulation of hazardous waste, said he had been hoping for movement on a bill in Congress that would overhaul and strengthen the 1976 Toxic Substances Control Act and allow the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to control the use of some chemicals more tightly.
There are also proposals in the Legislature to let the government regulate provider payments as a temporary solution, and some experts think regulation may be the most effective way to tame costs in the long run.
Experts on regulation dismissed the back-and-forth sniping as misguided.
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"The Vatican has to understand that the world has changed," said Donato Masciandaro, the head of the economics department at Bocconi University in Milan and an expert in regulations on money laundering.
Furthermore, experts on regulation have noted that Carter's full or partial deregulation of four major U.S. industries was much more consequential than Reagan's reducing enforcement of existing regulations.
Finally, key informant interviews were performed with experts in regulation of pharmaceutical products for specific countries where information was limited or where additional confirmation was required to complete the information.
