There is a higher order group of common interests. That’s a way of saying that the powers that be aren’t actually working together to stymie economic development but the collective effect of their individual actions is just about equivalent to that. Legislators and jurists aren’t actually doing this on their own but are being useful and possibly unwitting tools.
Some are actual activists themselves.
I tend toward pointing at the legislators most prominently because it is poorly conceived and badly written laws that allow the courts to be manipulated by either agenda driven suitors or activist judges.