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by zigzigzag 3539 days ago
I bought the book and read it last night.

Basically it blames the New Deal and the massive expansion of Congressional ambition that accompanied it. Such vast programs of regulation meant it became infeasible for Congress to write the laws entirely by itself, so it created lots of regulators and agencies to do so for it, and then delegated lots of power without much in the way of accountability.