Bootleggers and Baptists: A Conversation with Bruce Yandle

While serving as the Executive Director of the Federal Trade Commission during the Reagan years, Bruce Yandle developed a theoretical framework he called "bootleggers and Baptists" to help make sense of regulatory dynamics. As the old story goes, when Baptists lobby for dry Sundays, it's the bootleggers who benefit. Yandle's insight was to point out that "bootlegger and Baptist" coalitions are surprisingly common in US politics. Paul Feine sat down to talk with Yandle about modern day examples of "bootleggers and Baptists."

Bruce Yandle is an economist at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University; Dean Emeritis of Clemson University's College of Business & Behavioral Science; and a senior fellow at the Property & Environment Research Center. Yandle served as a senior economist on the White House staff during the Ford and Carter administrations and as the Executive Director of the Federal Trade Commission under Reagan. Yandle is the author/editor of 16 books, including, most recently, Regulation by Litigation (Yale Press).

Interview by Paul Feine. Shot by Dan Hayes and Alex Manning. Edited by Paul Detrick.

Approximately 8 minutes.

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[furyofbongos]

Whenever you have a group in society with the legal right to use force, then you will *ALWAYS* have some other group lobbying them to stifle competition to their benefit.

[adamrassatt]

The easiest way of getting crime is to get rid of laws.

[sandridgehillary]

ur video uploads are so great…



[MarkofBeastRevealed]

bootleggers and baptists lol. King james was born 6, 1566, 6th of scotland, he authorized 66 books and people call them the word of God. Jesus is the word. The bible controls the whole world as you see with the baptists and the bootleggers. America was built on the bible also and controls a lot of the world through bible laws. Those 66 books that every one reverances and that there are more of then people in the world are THE MARK OF THE BEAST. THE BIBLE IS THE MARK OF THE BEAST

[ALITL8]

@adamrassatt decriminalization is the answer. exempt cannabis from the DEA's Controlled Substances Act and repeal all laws that criminalize the cultivation, processing, transportation, distribution, sales, possession, consumption and use of cannabis for industrial, medicinal, nutritional and recreational purposes.

[CleRoyster]

Just another Jesuit promoting the NEW WORLD ORDER...

God help us all.

[linxusims]

An Indian version of this is Shiv Sena and Savita bhabhi alliance. Please Google both to know what I mean.

[MURDERORMARIJUANA]

"Make the most you can of the Indian Hemp seed and sow it everywhere."

- George Washington

"Two of my favorite things are sitting on my front porch smoking a pipe of sweet hemp, and playing my Hohner harmonica." - Abraham Lincoln

"Hemp is of first necessity to the wealth & protection of the country."

- Thomas Jefferson, U.S. President

"We shall, by and by, want a world of hemp more for our own consumption."

- John Adams, U.S. President

[grraadd]

fanatics are always dangerous...

[dudemanbearpig]

That guy has awful teeth.

[BlueCarp]

Now it's the Conservative Christians and the Columbian Cartels.

[Nonoyawns]

Very educational bit!