Anthropologist Susan Silbey illuminates path to commonsense regulation
Wednesday, May 7, 2014 - 08:32
in Mathematics & Economics
Regulations control virtually every aspect of American life, including food production, workplace safety, automotive emissions, and home construction. Yet, within the political arena, the critical dividing line is typically portrayed as falling between those who want more regulation and those who want less. This is a fallacy, according to Susan S. Silbey, the Leon and Anne Goldberg Professor of Humanities, Sociology, and Anthropology, a professor of behavioral and policy sciences at the MIT Sloan School of Management, and head of the Department of Anthropology.