*This is the ninth and final post in a symposium on Jed Stiglitz’s “The Reasoning State.” For other posts in the series, click here. My main response to this symposium is gratitude. I thank Yale Journal on Regulation and the Notice & Comment editors, and Bridget Dooling especially, for the opportunity to discuss The Reasoning State […]

*This is the eighth post in a symposium on Jed Stiglitz’s “The Reasoning State.” For other posts in the series, click here. The Reasoning State is compelling because it manages to be both informative and enjoyable to read. The book explores why legislators delegate policy-making authority to agencies, subject to the requirement that agency officials adhere […]

*This is the seventh post in a symposium on Jed Stiglitz’s “The Reasoning State.” For other posts in the series, click here. Over the last month or so, it has been such a thrill to host two book symposia here at the blog—the first one on Peter Shane’s Democracy’s Chief Executive and now this one on […]

*This is the sixth post on a symposium on Jed Stiglitz’s “The Reasoning State.” For other posts in the series, click here. In The Reasoning State, Jed Stiglitz offers a novel argument for the necessity of the administrative state. It is not, as other scholars have argued, that Congress delegates power because it lacks the capacity […]

*This is the fifth post on a symposium on Jed Stiglitz’s “The Reasoning State.” For other posts in the series, click here. In Jed Stiglitz’s important new book, he argues that legislators delegate policymaking authority to administrative agencies because of agencies’ ability to solve a trust problem between voters and elected officials. Voters confronted with an […]

*This is the fourth post on a symposium on Jed Stiglitz’s “The Reasoning State.” For other posts in the series, click here. “[A]gencies do not have quite the prerogative of obscurantism reserved to legislatures.”  This observation, one of my favorites in the widely taught United States v. Nova Scotia Food Products Corp., describes fundamental features of […]

*This is the third post on a symposium on Jed Stiglitz’s “The Reasoning State.” For other posts in the series, click here. I am delighted to participate in a symposium on Professor Jed Stiglitz’s new book, The Reasoning State. Stiglitz contends that the administrative state—and in particular, the transfer of authority from Congress to agencies—is justified […]

*This is the second post on a symposium on Jed Stiglitz’s “The Reasoning State.” For other posts in the series, click here. The Reasoning State presents a broadly interdisciplinary discussion and defense of the administrative state. Jed Stiglitz engages with history, political science, and psychology to argue that credible reasoning about policy matters, incentivized and enforced […]

*This is the first post on a symposium on Jed Stiglitz’s “The Reasoning State.” For other posts in the series, click here. In his excellent book The Reasoning State, Jed Stiglitz undertakes a major task: to develop a justification for the administrative state that is both consistent with political theory and also helps explain the normative […]