Bruce Yandle on Bootleggers and Baptists

EconTalk

• Episode: Bruce Yandle on Bootleggers and Baptists
• Website: EconTalk
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• Duration: 01:08:48
• Published: 2007-01-15 09:10

Bruce Yandle of Clemson University explains why politics makes such strange bedfellows and the often peculiar alliance of self-interested special interests with more altruistic motives. He uses his insights to explain some of the seemingly perverse but politically understandable effects of the Clean Air Act, the tobacco settlement and other regulation.