When new ideas can easily be sold around the world, he argues, the rewards for generating them rise, and brainy people will be lured to Boston and New York with ever-fatter pay packets.
It is possible that the pricing of ever more complicated instruments might sometimes be too much even for the ultra-brainy lot who do it, with expensive results.
Fully 380 professions are regulated, the highest number in the EU. The justice minister, the brainy Jaroslaw Gowin, has produced a list of 49 to be liberalised at once with another 180 to follow, covering 60% of the regulated workforce.