Examining the public interest rationale for regulating whiskey with the pure food and drugs act
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Keywords
Public choice; Public interest; Whiskey; Pure Food and Drugs Act;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- D51 - Microeconomics - - General Equilibrium and Disequilibrium - - - Exchange and Production Economies
- D52 - Microeconomics - - General Equilibrium and Disequilibrium - - - Incomplete Markets
- D72 - Microeconomics - - Analysis of Collective Decision-Making - - - Political Processes: Rent-seeking, Lobbying, Elections, Legislatures, and Voting Behavior
- K20 - Law and Economics - - Regulation and Business Law - - - General
- N81 - Economic History - - Micro-Business History - - - U.S.; Canada: Pre-1913
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