The Death of Common Sense : How Law Is Suffocating America (Paperback)

from beaurichly

I have recommended this book to dozens of people and can't wait to dig it out of storage and re-read over the holidays. My big takeaway from the book was that at some point in the past, public servants went from being seen as bright competent people, who were given general guidance and asked to u...

from DBayn1

Very well done book. Mostly anecdotal (fewer studies than I would like) but the writing is conversational and very well done.

from keylawk

The author is a practicing corporate lawyer. His research on legal regulations across a broad horizon finds that the detailed volume of law is un-read, expensive, and often defeats the stated purposes: "We seem to have achieved the worst of both worlds: a system of regulation that goes too far wh...

from shoomg

This is one of those books written from the modern American conservative viewpoint that does a very good job of opening the reader's eyes to a serious problem caused by modern statism, but whose solutions are problematic. The author argues that America is choking on legalistic bureaucracy run amo...

from DarkWater

Dangers of bureacracy, excessive process, and lack of human oversight and judgment in human affairs.