Professor Paul Mahoney has taught at the University of Virginia School of Law since 1990; he served as the school's dean from 2008-2016. Professor Mahoney's area of expertise is securities regulation, and in 2015, he published Wasting a Crisis: Why Securities Regulation Fails, which offers a compelling conservative critique of financial regulation from the Obama administration right back to the New Deal era. I previously interviewed Professor Mehrsa Baradaran about her book, The Quiet Coup: Neoliberalism and the Looting of America, which offers a serious critique of the government's approach to securities regulation and response to the 2008 financial crisis, but from a progressive perspective; I view this interview with Professor Mahoney as the conservative companion to that prior conversation.
There are many issues on which conservatives and liberals can't agree on what's wrong with the current system. This is one where at least some conservatives and liberals do agree on the problem, but propose very different solutions.
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