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Regulatory Capture: Fossil fuel companies spend Euro 250m on lobbying

Graham Watson

28th October 2019

The extent to which the fossil fuel industry is able to lobby supra-national institutions is laid bare in this articlelooking at the amount spent, both by individual firms and industry groups, in lobbying the EU. Think about what this implies in simple marginal terms: the marginal benefit that the companies receive from the lobbying is likely to be greater than the marginal cost, and that's why they continue to do it.

Graham Watson

Graham Watson has taught Economics for over twenty years. He contributes to Tutor2U, reads voraciously and is interested in all aspects of Teaching and Learning.

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