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Mandatory Open Access for Electricity: Is there a better way?
“Mandatory open access to the power grid is the wrong paradigm for restructuring. Although open access is advocated by virtually all of today’s reformers, it…
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Computers and Competition: A Primer for Congress
With a new Microsoft hearing in the Senate on Thursday, legislators should keep in mind some crucial facts that argue against interference in…
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Electric Avenues: Why “Open Access” Can’t Compete
Full Document Available in PDF The regulation of electricity markets…
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Micro-managing Bill Gates
Full article available in pdf Republicans are known for praising markets and condemning overregulation of business. But oddly, they often conspicuously endorse…
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Crying Silicon Tears
If one set out to design vicious special- interest legislation to loot productive companies and distribute the spoils to lesser competitors, one could scarcely do…
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Network Effects: Does Luck or Talent Rule the High-Technology Market?
Does luck matter more than talent in the marketplace after all? Many of today’s calls for antitrust interference in the marketplace are rooted in a…
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Ten Thousand Commandments: A Policymaker’s Snapshot of the Federal Regulatory State (1998 edition)
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Creating a Regulatory Report Card: Toward Maximum Disclosure in the Regulatory State
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CEI Statement Opposing “Stranded Cost” Recovery
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Antitrust Policy As Corporate Welfare
Full Document Available in PDF Political party reformers promised to roll back the…
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Ten Thousand Commandments: A Policymaker’s Snapshot of the Federal Regulatory State (1996 Edition)
Full Document Available in PDF While we know rather precisely how much the federal…
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Uncle Sam’s Commandments
While government activity is generally, and rightly, associated with taxing and spending, there is another way Congress carries out its objectives: by imposing health, safety,…
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Promise and Peril: Implementing a Regulatory Budget
Full Document Available in PDF The size of the federal budget…
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FERC Should Not Assist Stranded Cost Recovery
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VAT Chance for Tax Fairness
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