Licensing Laws as Market Architecture: Who Gets to Practice and Who Pays the Price

When a state issues a professional license, it’s doing a lot more than vetting someone’s competence. It’s drawing a hard line around a market, deciding who gets in, what they’re allowed to do, and—most consequentially—what the rest of us have to pay. For policy-curious professionals, occupational licensing is one of those quiet regulatory giants that [ ] The post Licensing Laws as Market…