gwern comments on Prices or Bindings? - Less Wrong

21 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 21 October 2008 04:00PM

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Comment author: gwern 28 September 2010 04:40:25PM 3 points [-]

More, I think, rent-seeking by a long-established and powerful constituency. Doctors and lawyers also have very strong privileges, while psychiatrists seem to be less well organized and not as old.

(Quick! In a lobbying fight between the APA and the AMA, who would win? Between the APA and ABA? Between local bars and local psychiatrists?)