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The Need for Regulation in an Increasingly Complex World

The trend in this modern world is towards continually greater complexity. In a world where the choices that face us are ever more complex, there is a great need for regulation and a variety of mediating institutions that can provide citizens with meaningful information and useful judgments and evaluations. Some examples of the increasingly complex choices we face include the wide variety of financial decisions consumers are faced with, with regard to savings, borrowing, and mortgages; The environmental and social impacts of our lifestyle choices; Our choices with regard to philanthropic activities and their effectiveness; political choices and exercising political influence at the state, federal, and local levels; career development and educational choices; choices relating to the raising of children and managing a family; choices with regard to food consumption, cooking, and dining; choices with regard to physical health, medical treatment, and physical activity. I know that I mys