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A Solution to the Grokster Copyright Debate?
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Law of the Sea Treaty Debated
David B. Rivkin Jr. and Lee A. Casey are correct that most reasons prompting President Reagan to reject the Law of the Sea Treaty (LOST)…
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Reviving Real Regulatory Reform
Full Document Available in PDF Washington, D.C., March 24, 2005—Congress and the President, now more than…
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CEI Congratulates DOE on Emissions Decision
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Bureaucrats upending NIH
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) faces a revolt by its employees over new, draconian conflict-of-interest rules. They ban all consulting (paid or unpaid) for…
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Ponzi’s Scheme Still Works
Many have heard of Charles Ponzi, the 1920s flimflam — man whose name is now synonymous with con artistry The Oxford English Dictionary defines a…
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Senate Should Approve Oil Exploration in Arctic
Contact: Richard Morrison, 202.331.2273 Washington, D.C., March 15, 2005—The Competitive Enterprise Institute urges the Senate this week to retain provisions in budget reconciliation legislation that…
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Saudi Canadia?
People who fret over headlines such as “World’s oil problems are only going to get worse” must be growing downright panicky over recent news reporting…
Comment
In the Matter of Level 3 Communications, Petition for Forbearance
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Career Scientist Nominated as EPA Head
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Misnamed Activists Are Thorns In Rose Of Agbiotech Foods
In a spin-dominated world where activists claim—often on the flimsiest of data—that this, that or the other thing causes cancer or threatens the…
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Cooler Heads
Politics Kyoto Goes into Force On February 16, 2005, the Kyoto Protocol came into force internationally. Thirty-four nations are now committed to reducing…
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Erin Bode: Quite a Cover Girl
As I listen to the light and bouncy voice of Erin Bode, the young singer being positioned by the boutique jazz label MaxJazz…
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Dying for Regulatory Reform
Full article available in pdf format Congress has a long and ignoble history of exaggerated legislative responses to perceived health…
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Risks in the Modern World: What Prospects for Rationality?
Risk refers to the likelihood that something will go wrong.[1] People naturally fear such mishaps, and risk aversion is a basic survival trait. Only non-survivors…
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Global Tax; or Global Tax Reform?
Am I the only one who noticed that the Kyoto Protocol (imposing artificial constraints on energy use to regulate atmospheric carbon dioxide to…
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Green War Gets Radical
This book is a reality check for those who still view the environmental movement through rose-tinted glasses. While it does not sketch the rise…
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Science Goes Tabloid: In scientific journals, if it bleeds, it leads
In the United Kingdom, most of the respected broadsheet newspapers have cut costs and increased circulation by adding a tabloid edition. Some argue that…
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UN Sea Treaty Brings ‘Tragedy of the Commons’
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Study
The Price is Right—Or Better Be!
Full Document Available in PDF On the popular television game show “The…
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Doing Bad by Doing Good
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Kyoto Protocol Simply Wrong, Wrong, Wrong
The Kyoto Protocol on climate change, which comes into force this week, represents a massive act of folly by many of the…
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Travesties of Regulation: Harmful U.N. policies.
Former Federal Reserve Board chairman Paul Volcker, who heads the inquiry into corruption in the United Nations' defunct oil-for-food program, has just issued…
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One, Two, Many Broken Windows
<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = “urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office” /> Albert Einstein is often attributed with defining insanity as doing the same over…
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Verizon & MCI : A Good Deal for Consumers
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United States and Australia Dodge Kyoto Bullet
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New Agenda Fails to Address Problems
George Bernard Shaw once observed that: “The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the…
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The Bill That Wouldn’t Die
You may hear the creak of a coffin-lid today as the alarmists' favorite domestic energy suppression measure rises from the grave. This particularly…
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Red & Green: Is the President Cutting Enough Environmental Fat?
If you believe the rhetoric from environmental activists about the Bush-administration budget, you would think that the world would come to an end if…
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$1.5 billion Bush Tax on Air Travel Fails Cost-Benefit Test
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Bush Budget Missteps On Energy, Environment, Regulatory Reform
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CEI Scholars Respond to Bush Budget
<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = “urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office” /> OVERVIEW Analysis from CEI Vice President for Policy Clyde…
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CEI Applauds Court Ruling Against Gov’t Tobacco Suit
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The Problem with Municipal Wireless Networks
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Study: “E-Waste” is Manageable
Contact for Interviews: Richard Morrison, 202.331.2273 Washington, D.C., February 3, 2005—With rapid technological improvements in computers and electronics turning millions of products…
Study
Mandated Recycling of Electronics: A Lose-Lose-Lose Proposition
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Will the Real Hernando de Soto Please Stand Up?
Stop the presses! Hernando de Soto is harming the poor! So argues John Gravois, a reporter for the Chronicle of Higher Education, in a…
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Free Market Reaction to the State of the Union
Contact: Richard Morrison, 202.331.2273 Washington, D.C., February 2, 2005—President Bush’s State of the Union address tonight will expound his vision of an “Ownership Society,” in…
Op-Eds
Gas Emissions Trading Scheme (Letter to the Editor)
Sir, Anatole Kaletsky (Comment, January 27) suggests that Tony Blair’s agreement to support the US in Iraq should have been made conditional on American support…
Study
The Viability of Municipal Wi-Fi Networks
Full Document Available in PDF Ownership of broadband networks by municipalities,…
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Different Technology, Similar Service
In the absence of competition, regulations serve to protect consumers against monopoly market power. This is, in theory, the reason why the telecommunications…
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SBC Buyout of AT&T Helps Consumers
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Financial Times
US responds coolly to Blair Call for Action on climate change
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Pachauri Must Resign as Head of UN Climate Panel
Contact for interviews: Richard Morrison, 202.331.2273 Washington, D.C., January 27, 2005—The Competitive Enterprise Institute today called on Dr. Rajendra K. Pachauri to resign as chairman…
Op-Eds
Ideology vs. Health
<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = “urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office” /> You are correct about the heartbreaking disgrace of the purge of DDT…
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Fast Food Obesity Lawsuit Threatens Consumers, Rule of Law
Contact for Interviews: Richard Morrison, 202.331.2273 Washington, D.C., January 26, 2004—Yesterday’s reinstatement of the obesity liability lawsuit against McDonald’s resurrects…
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2005 ALEC Energy Sustainability Academy
2005 <?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = “urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags” />ALEC Energy Sustainability Academy<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = “urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office” /> …
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America Is Not Facing an Unavoidable Energy Shortage
The year 2004 will be remembered as a year of high prices for gasoline and natural gas, and Americans are understandably worried about…
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Six Tsunamis
<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = “urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office” /> Imagine that every year the world suffered from six or more tsunamis producing…
Study
Comments on New Jersey Rule
Full Document Available in PDF Dear Ms. Previte: On behalf of the…
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Press Event: Study Shows ‘Corporate Social Responsibility’ May Hurt Bottom Line
“Corporate social responsibility” has become a trendy international business philosophy, hailed as good for business and the bottom line. But a forthcoming study finds no…
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Q&A with Jarol Manheim
CEI’s Monthly Planet recently interviewed Jarol Manheim, Professor of Media and Public Affairs and of Political Science at the George Washington University’s Elliott…
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Cybersecurity: Markets or Mandates?
Full Document Available in PDF Private cybersecurity initiatives will gradually move us…
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Freeing the Biotech Revolution
Full Document Available in PDF The second of two excerpts from The Frankenfood…
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Medicine Could Reach for Stars, FDA Willing
Full Document Available in PDF When Bill Gates and Paul Allen…
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Unbundling the Confusion over Declining Marginal Cost Pricing
Full Document Available in PDF Declining cost businesses must have ways…
CEI Planet
CEI Planet: November 2004
Full Document Available in PDF In this issue: “Freeing the Biotech Revolution” by Henry…
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Consensus, Truisms and Straw Men
In a recent op-ed published in the Washington Post, science historian Naomi Oreskes, elaborating on her essay for Science magazine, argued…
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Study: Consumers Could be Hurt by Federal Regulation of Insurance Industry
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Federal Insurance Chartering The Devil’s in the Details
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Stopping a Flu Pandemic
During the winter of 1918-19, only months after the end of World War I, much of the world was ravaged again, this time…
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Reef Madness
Full article available as a pdf. Now that <?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = “urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags” />Russia has ratified the…
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EU Warned Against Pursuing Its Climate Change Agenda
The chairman of the US Senate's environment committee, Senator James Inhofe, warned the EU against pursuing its climate change agenda—stalled to date in…
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Pew’s Parallel Universe
<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = “urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office” /> The “new biotechnology,” or gene-splicing, applied to agriculture and food production is here to…
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“Mad Cow”: Is the Media Milking an Overblown Threat?
Full Document Available in PDF The recent confirmation of…
Financial Times
Not Your Father’s Republican
As governor of Maryland, Robert Ehrlich fought off trial lawyers, teachers’ unions, and a Kennedy – and signed a bill legalizing medical marijuana. What will…
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Stunting Corporate Growth
<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = “urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office” /> Robert J. Samuelson [op-ed, Dec. 22] dismissed legitimate concerns about the effects of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act…
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The Environmental Source
NOTE: A new edition of The Environmental Source has been published. The new version of this essential reference book on environmental policy is available in…
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Successful Philanthropy for Liberty
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Ultraviolet-B Radiation Fears Overblown
By relying too heavily on a few vocal alarmists, the article “Living under depleted skies” (World, Dec. 20) gave a very misleading impression…
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EU Rules Against Innovation in Microsoft Case
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Study
The Drug Reimportation Ban
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Science Fiction: Michael Crichton Takes a Novel Approach to Global Warming Alarmism
Michael Crichton's new blockbuster novel, State of Fear, begins with sex, violence, and oceanography. It's that sort of book all the way through,…
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FCC Is Ignoring Impact of Wireless, Other Rivals for Telephone Service
In the absence of competition, regulations serve to protect consumers against monopoly market power. This is, in theory, the reason why the telecommunications local exchange…
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Understanding the Perils of Drug Reimportation
Washington, D.C., December 21, 2004—Today, as the Department of Health and Human Services is poised to release its pending report on drug reimportation, the Competitive…
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Disrupting Unscientific Chemical Speculation
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The Danger of Too Much Caution
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TCS COP 10 Coverage: Inuit All Along
<?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = “urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags” />BUENOS AIRES, Argentina — On Monday representatives from Iceland held a prime-time event announcing a study…
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TCS COP 10 Coverage: Who’s The Greatest?
BUENOS AIRES — British Prime Minister Tony Blair's Science Advisor Sir David King regularly calls climate change “the greatest threat facing mankind” and…
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Wireless Substitution and Competition: Different Technology but Similar Service–Redefining the Role of Telecommunications Regul
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Reid May Lead on Stock Options
In the discussion of winners and losers from Election 2004, one organization that may have suffered a big blow has been overlooked. This…
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FCC Drops the Ball on Phone Competition – Again
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FCC to Reconsider Telephone Competition
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TCS COP 10 Coverage: Premature Congratulation
<?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = “urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags” />Buenos Aires — “Post-2012”! is the mantra of thousands of bureaucrats and pressure group advocates meeting…
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Coal Is The New Gold
A report in the <?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = “urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags” />United States has found that coal is becoming ever more important as…
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CEI Experts to Monitor U.N. Global Warming
Washington, D.C., December 13, 2004—International global warming activists will have CEI sound-science team Myron Ebell, Director of International Environmental Policy, and Ivan Osorio, CEI Editorial…
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A Chilling Tale
We know that nature can kill. What most people don't know is that stupid ideas about nature can kill, too.<?xml:namespace prefix = o…
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How lawsuits can kill
This year's flu-vaccine shortfall is just one of many dangerous shortages of essential vaccines—and it need not have happened. <?xml:namespace prefix = o ns…
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Bigger, “Renewable” Boondoggle
In Washington, sometimes all you need to do to find out lobbyists’ latest schemes to bilk the unwary taxpayer is attend a public meeting. What…
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Cooler Heads
Politics COP-10 Opens in Buenos Aires with Attacks on US Intransigence As the tenth Conference of the Parties to the UN Framework Convention…
Comment
Ben Lieberman’s CBS MarketWatch interview on Internet wine sales
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It’s the Infrastructure, Stupid: Amtrak, derailed
The news that the Department of Transportation’s Inspector General is deeply concerned about the dangerous state of Amtrak’s railroad infrastructure should come as…
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Environmentalists Becoming Less and Less Relevant
Environmental activists wanted two things to happen on Election Day—they wanted President Bush to lose and their cause to be a big reason…
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Energy Subsidy Group To Release Blueprint for Tax/Consumer-Funded Boondoggle
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The Battle over Interstate Wine Shipments
Full complaint available as a pdf. The Supreme Court is hearing oral arguments today in the case of…
Financial Times
Killing Salmon
Financial Times
Climate Talks Bring Bush’s Policy to Fore
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Bracing for e-prohibition on wine?
<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = “urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office” /> Contact for interviews: <?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = “urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags” />Richard Morrison,…
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The Supermarket’s Unnatural Selections
Agricultural practices have been “unnatural” for 10,000 years. With the exception of wild berries and wild mushrooms, virtually all the grains, fruits and…
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