The Licensing Racket. How We Decide Who Is Allowed to Work, and Why It Goes Wrong, Hardback/Rebecca Haw Allensworth

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. Publisher: Harvard University Press Author(s): Rebecca Haw Allensworth Number of pages: 304 Publication date: 2025 Dimensions: 149 x 218 x 28 Cover type: Hardback