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As Semelhanças E As Diferenças: Regulação, Concorrência E All That Jazz, Victor J. Calvete

Victor J. Calvete

As the improbable reader will be aware, the regulatory virus (RV) is everywhere. The RV occurs whenever and wherever state run activities, performed (almost) free of charge by badly paid civil servants, are superseded by state run activities, performed by well paid workers of an "independent" authority, made affluent by "regulatory charges" levied on the regulated sector. In Portugal, the RV grew strong and fast, and so we have no short supply of "regulators", even if only by name: with civil service lingering, shrinking, and shaking, being part of an independent "authority" (or a dependent one, for that matter) gives …