The Endarkenment

by Don Boudreaux on January 10, 2014

in Crony Capitalism, Energy, Environment, Nanny State, Regulation, Video

Reason’s Nick Gillespie rightly calls the ban on what was “once the very symbol of a good idea” – the incandescent lightbulb – the dumbest ban of 2014. It might well be the dumbest ban of the decade: it’s the gloomy product of crony capitalism, officious and often benighted environmentalists, and what George Will calls “Gesture Liberalism.”