"Wow," said our shocked son, who's used to our culture's litigious regulation of all things moving and not.
The scientific basis of regulation for things like endocrine-disrupting chemicals requires careful and reproducible results confirming that a real risk exists.
Republicans usually promise the sorts of policies that investors like: tax cuts for wealthy people, more employer-friendly rules, and less regulation, the sorts of things that could increase corporate profits and, therefore, stock value.
They are not rigid like regulators in Japan and Korea," says one banker at a British firm.In the nature of things regulation in small OFCs can also be simpler than in big countries.
"I voted for the budget because that's what my district really sent me down there to do, was to cut spending, reduce regulation, do those kind of things," he said.
"Connecticut regulations, on the scale of things, are among the most restrictive of all the state regulations we've seen," he said.
But other victims of regulation make things worse by interpreting woolly regulations with timid literalness.
To understand both why the banks didn't go further on their own and why the threat of regulation helped things along, even before the rules were agreed upon, it's worth consulting a famous essay from 1973 by the social scientist Thomas Schelling, written on the subject of hockey helmets.
The second book deals with the law of things: the regulation of property rights—ownership, usufruct, and servitudes.
They looked, too, at the receptor for GABA, a brain chemical known to be involved in relaxation and the regulation of anxiety, among other things.
