Download or read book Regulatory Capture, digital original edition written by J. Samuel Barkin and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2014-01-10 with total page 35 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Earth's oceans are overfished, despite more than fifty years of cooperation among the world's fishing nations. There are too many boats chasing too few fish. In this BIT, J. Samuel Barkin and Elizabeth R. DeSombre offer a provocative proposal for a global regulatory and policy approach, describing the “capture” of regulation by industry and offering a plan for a global institution for fisheries regulation.