Description: Consumers feel powerless in the face of big industry, and the dominant view of economic regulators agrees with them. Trumbull argues that this represents a misreading of the historical record and the core logic of interest representation. Weak interests, he reveals, quite often emerge the victors in policy battles, by forging unlikely alliances.
Brief description: Gunnar Trumbull is Associate Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School.
Review Quotes: This book makes a bold and startling claim: diffuse interests, rather than concentrated interests, dominate the making of public policy in the advanced democracies.--Pepper D. Culpepper, European University Institute