The Licensing Racket

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The Licensing Racket is written by Rebecca Haw Allensworth and published by Harvard University Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0674295420 (ISBN 10) and 9780674295421 (ISBN 13).

Rebecca Haw Allensworth pries open the inner workings of professional licensing boards, showing how they erect arbitrary barriers to work, corruptly influence markets for routine services such as hairdressing, and tolerate bad actors in high-stakes arenas like medicine and law. The Licensing Racket is a call for reform and, where needed, abolition.