Stigler, G. J. (1971). The Theory of Economic Regulation. The Bell Journal of Economics and Management Science 2(1): 3–21. doi:10.2307/3003160.
Not read: no lawful copy was reached on 2026-10-21 (see status_note). The summary is drawn from what the work is standardly cited for; the OECD’s report (LIT-1325, read) and Schram and Ule (LIT-1340, read) cite it for the same thesis.
Why this is here
A20: “George Stigler’s classic account explicitly treats government regulation as something industries may demand for their own benefit.” The classical source for the conventional sense of capture that TERM-066 has to distinguish from capture of the conditions of decision (CLAIM-404). Stigler appears elsewhere in the record only in unrelated works (LIT-044, LIT-1054).