# Regulatory capture

- Institution: Gresham College
- Speaker: Professor Avinash Persaud
- Year: 2005
- Level: For everyone
- Language: English
- Subjects: Economics, Business and management
- Source: [Gresham College](https://www.gresham.ac.uk/watch-now/regulatory-capture)
- Licence: [Educational use (Gresham College's terms)](https://www.gresham.ac.uk/terms-and-conditions)
- Who can watch: Tweens profiles and older (sources give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the source's own words)

As societies shift from government ownership of major services, such as transport and health, to government regulation, they can swap one failure for another. Regulators, for example, risk being captured by those they are supposed to be regulating. This lecture shows how regulatory capture is rife and harmful and examine what can be done about it.

## Lectures

1. [Regulatory capture](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/gresham/regulatory-capture/8f6dbc7cb6c4) (YouTube)