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Economists who have proposed government regulation to solve 'market failure' are guilty of short‐sightedness, since regulations are captured by interest groups to maintain monopoly and exclude competition, Catherine Blight (right), a Scottish economist and lawyer, examines the effectiveness of free markets and dynamic legal systems to break down monopolies, and calls for a policy of anti‐regulation.

This essay provides an alternative framework for interpreting the leadership role of public administrators in governance. It is argued, contrary to the views held by a large band of public administration theorists, that leadership in the administrative state need not and should not be governed solely by the entrepreneurial leadership model. In fact, excessive entrepreneurship is seen as a threat to public institutions. An argument is presented that public administrators are engaged in a special kind of leadership called Administrative Conservatorship. Public administrators are depicted as guardians of public institutions and, in turn, regime values.

It is a sophistry to which human nature commonly resorts, when one wants to perform an act and at the same time to avoid its necessary consequences, to give it a fresh name. Thus, if people wish to live in concubinage and yet to be received in decent society, they call it "companionate marriage," and if statesmen wish to rule and exploit a country without conferring on its inhabitants the grand privileges of citizenship, they call the annexation "protection"; whilst if they desire to impose tariffs on trade, and at the same time to avoid the connotation of scarcity and dearness, they avoid the awkward word "protection," and style the process "safeguarding."