Licensing as a Moat: How Occupational Regulation Protects Practitioners, Not the Public

Occupational licensing—the state-mandated permission slip you need to cut hair, install flooring, or read a medical image—gets sold as a consumer shield. The official story is tidy: minimum standards keep the public safe from hacks and quacks. But when you actually dig into the data, the lobbying footprints, and the economic fallout, a different picture [ ] The post Licensing as a Moat: How…