Rebecca Haw Allensworth on How Professional Licenses are Rigging the Game for Insiders
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So to become a barber you have to have more hours of instruction than are in law school, for example. And now the good fight with Yasha Monk. You probably know that your doctor, your lawyer, need to have a license in order to practice. But did you know that in many parts of the United States, you need to have a license which requires sometimes a year, two years, three years of school in order to be a barber, in order to be a florist, in order to install an alarm in your neighbor's house?
Well, My guest today explains to us how the title of her latest book, The Licensing Record, operates in the United States. There are two fundamental problems with which she argues. One is that it makes it very hard for people to access these professions, creating hardships, for example, for immigrants who want to practice those professions, but also driving up prices for those of us who have to use those services. And the second, ironically, is that
These licensing boards are actually really bad at disciplining members of them that do egregious things, like engage in uh very serious medical malpractice that might lead to people dying. They don't actually do very much to discipline members of those boards. So this is a slightly wonky conversation, but an interesting conversation that I think is indicative of broader problems in the country about how uh our regulatory state has gotten out of control and no longer serves the actual purposes it was set up to serve. Rebecca Ho Allensworth is the David Daniels Allen, distinguished chair of law at Vanderbilt, as well as the author of a licensing record.
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