Wayne Crews, the Regulations Expert

About this episode

Kevin Williamson discusses regulation and the administrative state with expert Wayne Crews.

Kevin Williamson is joined by Wayne Crews, a longtime policy expert on regulation and the administrative state. They discuss his career studying federal rules and his long-running Ten Thousand Commandments project, which tracks the scope and cost of regulations. The conversation also touches on his family farm and a longshot bid for office as a libertarian candidate that ended with him being kicked off the ballot. Along the way they explore how regulatory policy shapes economic life, the diff...

People in this episode

Host: Kevin Williamson

Guest: Wayne Crews

Topics covered

• regulation
• administrative state
• economic policy
• libertarianism
• federal rules

Keywords

• regulation
• administrative state
• Wayne Crews
• economic life
• libertarian candidate

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Ten Thousand Commandments

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