Corporations lobby governments to put in place regulations which prevent true free markets and solidify their gains.
If you're talking specifically about corporations here, then corporations only care about profit and securing future profits So they find a way to ring fence their business by government regulation.
Yes, I think I asked too vaguely. Perhaps I should have said "how much of the legislation is really via lobby, and how does that fit in with viewing private sector with suspicion?"
Or, is it too hard for you to tell what the instigation of each new legislation was?
I'm sure the lobby infrastructure, especially in the US, has a huge role in the creation of legislation. Thing is, I'm not in the US. And in my country, global standard setting bodies have a much greater impact on what my country passes. So if you're talking about the US, I'd say yes. I would guess that the different lobbies, especially the lobbies in financial services And the industrial military complex are very, very powerful.
But at the end of the day, that's just in the US. Other jurisdictions are fighting a fight with global standards setting bodies. And that's who is really impacting them.
