(Re-Post) Regulation Sucks

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Original post 9/10/14:  Anthony Davies, one of my favorite economists, shows us what we already know to be true: that is, regulation destroys worker productivity.  From his post at the Mercatus Center (ht: Cafe Hayek), here's a graph comparing worker productivity in highly regulated industries vs.worker productivity in lesser regulated industries (click to enlarge):

Scary, but not surprising. So who wins with increased regulation? The politicians passing the legislation and the firms who lobbied for it in the first place.