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No Doing, No Learning

A regulation that raises gasoline prices makes people angry but when regulation prevents an industry from ever existing, most people never learn what they lost. Consider nuclear power.

  • Early U.S. nuclear reactors saw 81% cost reduction 1954-1968
  • Regulatory decisions 1971, Three Mile Island slowed construction
  • Genetically modified microbes face regulatory hurdles

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