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Exhibit 1165

Cultural Capture and the Financial Crisis

Exhibit 1165 · Edited academic volume, chapter

Cultural Capture and the Financial Crisis

cultural because it operates through a set of shared but not explicitly stated understandings about the world; capture because it can produce the same outcome as traditional capture – regulatory actions that serve the ends of industry.

Proposes three mechanisms by which regulators come to share an industry's view of the public interest: group identification, status and relationship networks. Applies them to pre-crisis U.S. financial regulation. Kwak says cultural capture is a channel alongside traditional capture and that in most cases it cannot be proved to be the determining factor. Chapter read in the Tobin Project proof (CUP pagination).

Source
James Kwak, in Carpenter and Moss (eds.), Preventing Regulatory Capture, Cambridge University Press, ch. 3 (pp. 71-98)
Date
2014
Quoted from
p. 79 (same paragraph); "in most cases it will be impossible to prove that cultural capture is the determining factor behind regulatory outcomes", p. 79
Grade
Peer-reviewed
Document
https://www.tobinproject.org/sites/default/files/assets/Kwak%20-%20Cultural%20Capture%20and%20the%20Financial%20Crisis.pdf
Accessed
2026-11-10
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Note
Standing note: conceptual, little direct testing; Kwak concedes it is hard to identify empirically. Cite as a mechanism hypothesis only. Do not use it to attribute belief to named regulators.

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