Third Order
Patrick McLaughlin, Andrew BlackburnGood regulatory management paves the path to abundance. I examine problems and solutions in the reg process. 1st order effects = intended consequences. 2nd order = predictable unintended consequences. 3rd order = unpredictable unintended consequences.
| Platform |  | Pricing | Only free issues | Publishes | Weekly |
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Why Is Safer Rail Tech Still Waiting for a Green Light?
Automated track inspection (ATI) has been an unambiguous success story in rail safety innovation. It’s straightforward: mount lasers, sensors, and high-speed cameras on trains, scan every foot of track continuously, flag defects earlier, an...
The Nondelegation Project
Over at Pacific Legal Foundation, Mitchell Scacchi and I recently published a working paper explaining the Nondelegation Project. As we wrote today over on the Yale Journal on Regulation’s Notice and Comment blog:
Early Data on the Deregulatory Push in Washington
The Spring 2025 Unified Agenda, also sometimes called the “regulatory agenda,” was published on Sept. 4. The Unified Agenda is a document that is published twice a year (in theory, in the spring and in the fall) and that previews all of the...
The Four Pillars of Regulatory Reform
Most jurisdictions in the US (federal, state, county, and municipal) as well as most modern democracies in the rest of the world have regulatory codes that have quietly accumulated for decades. For proof, see this video of me stacking up fe...
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I write about the regulatory process, regulatory reform, regulatory accumulation, deregulation. Always with an eye towards the economy. Researcher at Hoover Institution and Pacific Legal Foundation. PhD in Economics from Clemson University.
I aim to make regulations as simple as possible and less of a roadblock for people who are trying to solve problems and create value.
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