During the Progressive Era at the beginning of the 20th century, the United States replaced litigation by regulation as … enforcement strategy between litigation and regulation based on the idea that justice can be subverted with sufficient expenditure … environment of significant inequality of wealth and political power. The switch to regulation can then be seen as an efficient …

Intro -- Pollution in Industrializing Economies, a Challengefor Regulation -- Notes -- Further Reading -- References …

Attempts to curb undesired behavior through regulation gets complicated when agents can adapt to circumvent enforcement …