Addressing the determinants of non-communicable diseases (NCDs) is challenged by aggressive market promotion by tobacco, alcohol and unhealthy food industries in emerging countries with fast economic development; and interference by these industries in government policies aimed at containing consumption of unhealthy products. This editorial reviews market promotion and industry interference and...

The features of regulatory encounters that foster the evolution of cooperation often also encourage the evolution of capture and corruption. Solutions to the problems of capture and cmption-limiting discretion, multipleindustry rather than single-industry agency jurisdiction, and rotating personnel-inhibit the evolution of cooperation. Tripartism+mpowering public interest groups-is advanced as ...

Weak regulation and regulatory inaction have been cited as significant factors in the recent financial crises in Britain, Ireland and the US. In Ireland, this had led to suggestions of regulatory capture. However, the existing empirical literature of regulatory capture has primarily focused on the regulators of utilities in the US; moreover, it has not analysed the effects and costs of the capt...