Source: EconLog
by Scott Sumner
“Almost every single day, I seem to encounter at least one article that I find highly annoying. In many cases, it involves a bad government policy. And most of those bad policies are aimed at addressing very real problems, but the cost of the policy ends up exceeding the benefit. Consider the sport of snow skiing. If I had my way, I’d make it impossible for skiers to sue ski slopes when they injured themselves while skiing. … My rationale is that the harm done by preventing justified lawsuits for ski injuries is trivial compared to the benefit derived from preventing frivolous lawsuits over ski injuries.” (10/30/24)
https://www.econlib.org/should-bad-outcomes-always-be-prevented/