From the Water Economics Blog of David Zetland (Aguanomics) this view of special interests:

Bottom Line: Special interests have existed forever. The only “solution” to them is to transfer decision-making from small groups (e.g., politicians) susceptible to special interest lobbying to disaggregated groups that are harder to lobby (e.g., market participants).

Click here for the longer explanation and example Zetland offers.

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