An Arizona Story: Controlling Clip Joints

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Jonathan Rose

Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law Arizona State University College of Law

Date Written: 1980

Abstract

This article considers the effect of excessive governmental regulation by looking at Arizona’s regulatory scheme for entry into, preparation for, and the practice of barbering, as a case in point. While the licensing of barbers to ensure sanitary conditions in barber shops is well-intentioned, the article suggests Arizona’s scheme has crossed the line from reasonable oversight to regulatory overkill, resulting in restricted entry and creating anticompetitive problems. The article suggests that in a free market, the unscrupulous and inept tend to get shaken out, without governmental paternalism and with minimal distortion in resource allocation.

Keywords: regulation, competition, occupational licensing

Suggested Citation

Rose, Jonathan, An Arizona Story: Controlling Clip Joints (1980). Regulation, Vol. 4, 1980, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=1426344

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