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Episode 313: Nudging and Capturing

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Foolishness of the week: 10:57 Main episode: 11:17 The USDA is experimenting with paying people to eat fruits and vegetables. That sounds like a good idea, but it opens the door to regulatory capture wherein companies lobby the USDA to have their products included in the program, and where manufacturers add just enough ingredients to call their formerly-fruit-and-vegetable-free product a “fruit” or “vegetable” and so qualify for the USDA subsidy.

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Foolishness of the week: 10:57 Main episode: 11:17 The USDA is experimenting with paying people to eat fruits and vegetables. That sounds like a good idea, but it opens the door to regulatory capture wherein companies lobby the USDA to have their products included in the program, and where manufacturers add just enough ingredients to call their formerly-fruit-and-vegetable-free product a “fruit” or “vegetable” and so qualify for the USDA subsidy.

Get Your Copy of Cooperation and Coercion Now!

http://www.cooperationandcoercion.com

See More Ant and James!

http://www.wordsandnumbers.org

Show Your Support for Words & Numbers at Patreon

https://www.patreon.com/wordsandnumbers

Apply for the Seminar on Classical Liberalism: Theory and Practice

https://www.wabash.edu/stephenson-institute/summer-seminars

Quick Hits

https://www.cnet.com/tech/computing/google-unveils-bard-its-chatgpt-rival-for-ai-powered-conversation/

Foolishness of the Week

https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/markets/biden-will-call-for-billionaire-tax-bigger-levy-on-stock-buybacks-in-state-of-the-union/ar-AA17aRGj

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More James at Smoke & Stories

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More Ant on YouTube

https://www.youtube.com/antonydavies

Let Us Know What You Think

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James R. Harrigan on Twitter

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