Regulation, deregulation, self-regulation: The case of engineers in Ontario
Journal of Business Ethics · 1985 · Volume 4 · Issue 4
Abstract
Against a wider background of rationales for deregulation within a modern economy, and as an exercise of subjecting a theory to the hard discipline of a particular case, a detailed analysis is given of a recent proposal for a form of deregulation (the industrial exemption) for engineering in Ontario. The proposal of the Staff Study of the Professional Organizations Committee set up by the Ontario Government is analyzed in terms of its Posnerian foundations, and is critized theoretically, empirically and normatively. Attention is drawn to two wider issues: the protection by self-regulating professionals of third parties against negative externalities, and the adverse effects of the proletarianization of professionals in large organizations.
Keywords
Adverse Effect, Economic Growth, Detailed Analysis, Professional Organization, Large Organization
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