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 “Institutions will try to preserve the problem to which they are the solution” – Clay Shirky<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n

This is also known as Regulatory Capture<\/a>” <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWhen a regulatory agency, created to act in the public interest, instead advances the commercial or political concerns of special interest groups that dominate the industry or sector it is charged with regulating.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

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 “Institutions will try to preserve the problem to which they are the solution” – Clay Shirky This is also known as Regulatory Capture” \u201cWhen a regulatory agency, created to act in the public interest, instead advances the commercial or political concerns of special interest groups that dominate the industry or sector it is charged with … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[34,290,11,15,25],"tags":[300,296],"class_list":["post-32812","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-contemporary-culture","category-mental-models","category-miscellaneous","category-politics","category-words","tag-processed","tag-published"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/prY0k-8xe","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":15808,"url":"https:\/\/www.limbicnutrition.com\/blog\/clay-shirky-on-culture-cones\/","url_meta":{"origin":32812,"position":0},"title":"Clay Shirky on Culture Cones","author":"Limbic","date":"February 2, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"Last month (January 2014) Clay Shirky gave a talk at Microsoft (50mins with Q&A). 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