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Cars and Civil Rights
1996 was the Centennial of the Car; it should have been called the Censorial of the Car. From magazine cover stories to interminable PBS…
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ISO 14000: Envrionmental Regulation By Any Other Name?
Full Document Available in PDF Until recently, most environmental regulations…
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The Costs of Kyoto
In 1997, the Competitive Enterprise Institute set out to answer just that question. CEI sponsored a conference on the implications of an international treaty…
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Govt. Deliberately Watered Down Air Bag Warnings in 1993
Arguing that the public should ask some serious questions before being subjected to a “new and improved” air bag mandate, the Competitive Enterprise Institute will…
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Third World Rebuffs Clinton Green Team
The Clinton administration suffered a major setback in its efforts to incorporate environmental restrictions into world trade rules with the completion of talks in the…
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How To Reform Grazing Policy
Full Document Available in PDF Property rights have been recognized since ancient times as an essential element of a well ordered society.
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Legalized Gambling in the United States
Legalized gambling in the United States is increasingly under attack, not only within individual states regarding its proposed expansion into new jurisdictions, but also on…
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Real Patient Protection
An old political maxim has it that "as Maine goes, so goes the nation." A few decades ago, however, the balance of political trend-setting power…
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The Kern River Preserve
Full Document Available in PDF A small Valley, some fifteen miles long and a…
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Remarks by Governor John Engler at CEI’s Warren T. Brookes Fellowship Memorial Dinner
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No Basis in Reality
"If there is one event that causes the diverse environmental community to hyperventilate in unison, it is an assault on the ESA (Endangered Species Act),"…
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Air Bags
Air bags were one of my first issues when I began working in public interest law twenty years ago. I had just started as…
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The Power of Positive Drinking
CEI is back in federal court. On October 29th, CEI filed suit against the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms (ATF) to challenge the agency’s…
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Authors Fire First Shot in War of Ideas on Environmental Education
Voicing concern that today’s children are being taught incompletely or even falsely when it comes to the environment, two authors have written a book that…
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Population Control Won’t Stop World Hunger
Population control is not the answer to global food shortages, according to the Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI), a free market think tank. Market-driven innovations in…
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Microsoft Is a Competitor, Not a ‘Predator’
Published in The Wall Street Journal<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = “urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office” /> October 7, 1996 …
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Greens’ Bark Worse Than Bite: Environmental Issues Played Minor Role in Congressional Races
Despite predictions that environmental issues would sweep many Republican Senators and Congressmen out of office, environmental issues appear to have had a minimal impact on…
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Beyond The Communications Decency Act: Constitutional Lessons Of The Internet
Full Document Available Here On February 8, 1996, the Communications Decency Act was enacted into law. The law criminalizes the use of…
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Clinton’s Stealth BTU Tax
The centerpiece of President Bill Clinton's first budget proposal was a massive energy tax. The tax on BTUs (or "British Thermal Units") was estimated to…
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Message From the President: Hoarding the Nation’s Wealth
President Clinton's presidential order to drive man and his works from much of southern Utah makes political sense, but makes for very bad policy.
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Anti-Gambling Politics – Time to Reshuffle the Deck
Full Document Available in PDF Legalized gambling in the United…
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Cleaning Hands In Predation Cases: A Modest Proposal To Improve Predatory-Pricing Suits
Full Document Available in PDF Reasonable…
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Trashing Free Trade: The Basel Convention’s Impact
Executive Summary With the establishment of the World Trade Organization (WTO) in 1995, free trade should be on the rise. The WTO has been heralded…
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The Tragedy of the Commons Revisited: Politics vs. Private Property
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Trashing Free Trade: The Basel Convention’s Impact on International Commerce
Trashing Free Trade: The Basel Convention’s Impact on International Commerce by James M. Sheehan With the establishment of the World Trade Organization (WTO) in 1995,…
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Children’s Games
In a spasm of inaccuracy, a textbook writer once enthused that antitrust law is the "Magna Carta of free enterprise." A more accurate label for…
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Message from the Executive Director: Time for Another Contract
The 104th Congress was anything but "extremist." Its leaders proposed to balance the budget — but only after seven years. They called for family tax…
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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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Green but Anti-Government
Numerous opinion surveys have documented widespread public support for environmental protection. Polls routinely find that over 70 percent of Americans characterize themselves as environmentalists…
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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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The Political Economy of MSAs
As noted in the last issue of UpDate, the tax-advantaged medical savings accounts (MSAs) proposed in this year's round of congressional health care legislation would…
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Free Trade for All
Massachusetts Governor William Weld, running in a tight Senate race against Senator John Kerry, recently came out in favor of a protectionist trade ban against…
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Cardiac and Cancer Specialists on the Need for FDA Reform
Two National Polls Debunk The Notion That FDA Doesn't Need Fixing…
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Listen to CEI’s Radio and TV ads on Drug Lag–the delayed availability of new therapies due to FDA regulation
CEI’s radio ad on FDA’s drug approval system, Ocean Storm, is available at: http://cei.org/sites/default/files/CEI_Radio_Storm.mp3 CEI’s television ad is available at:…
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Cool Climate…
Environmental activists are increasing the heat on policy makers worldwide to do something about global warming before it is too late. They charge that human…
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Hot Politics
As United Nations negotiations for the Global Climate Convention convene this month, scientists on the UN's panel of expert advisers are under fire for altering…
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Message from the Executive Director: Opposing Legal Plunder
Legal plunder is as old as government itself. In fact, most governments in most times and places are little more than glorified gangs of robbers.
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MSA’s — Panacea or Placebo?
The policy debate over whether to extend tax benefits to Medical Savings Accounts (MSAs) has tended to polarize into two camps. MSA advocates gravitate toward…
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A National Survey of Attitudes on Environmental Policy
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Breaking The FDA’s Drug Approval Monopoly:
Executive Summary The Food and Drug Administration’s monopoly over approving new medical therapies is premised on the idea that information markets fail. In…
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Survival Lessons: The Environmental Debate
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Wal-Mart — Predator or Prey?
In 1991, three retail pharmacies in Faulkner County, Arkansas, sued Wal-Mart for selling pharmaceutical items at predatorily low prices. The plaintiffs claimed that Wal-Mart's below-cost…
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Wal-Mart — Predator or Prey?
In 1991, three retail pharmacies in Faulkner County, Arkansas, sued Wal-Mart for selling pharmaceutical items at predatorily low prices. The plaintiffs claimed that Wal-Mart's below-cost…
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Message From the President: Do Good, Be Profitable
The failure of socialism has forced its former adherents to seek new means to achieve old goals. One of the now popular variants is…
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Environmental Education in Wisconsin: What the Textbooks Teach
Full Document Available in PDF Introduction Our schools…
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How the Market Self-Polices Against Predatory Pricing
Full Document Available in PDF Courts today are more skeptical than…
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Private Reef Building in Alabama and Florida
Full Document Available in PDF Fishing communities around the world…
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Regulation vs. Conservation
For the past two decades, federal land-use control has been the primary means of protecting endangered species and ecologically-sensitive lands. Laws such as the Endangered…
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How Much Is God Worth?
Full Document Available in PDF Economics has traditionally put a value only on goods…
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Nailed by FDA
I started 1996 with two new experiences. I had a close-up photograph taken of my big toe, and I had my first personal run-in with…
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The Free Market Automobility Bibliography
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The Mismeasure of Man
The environmentalist assault on chlorine has taken a recent turn. Organochlorines, we are now told, not only cause cancer, they are capable of altering human…
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Message From the President: Unsustainable Policies
In March the President’s Council on Sustainable Development (PCSD), made up of governmental, environmental and business leaders, presented to President Clinton its final report, Sustainable…
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The Mismeasure of Man
The environmentalist assault on chlorine has taken a recent turn. Organochlorines, we are now told, not only cause cancer, they are capable of altering human…
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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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Property Rights, Regulatory Takings, and Environmental Protection
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Rethinking Insurance Regulation
View Full Document as PDF Dr. Joseph Olson delivered a keynote address at the Mayflower Hotel for a conference sponsored by the…
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Rachel Was Wrong
Rachel Carson's Silent Spring ushered in an era of national concern over the potential effects of synthetic chemicals. Published in 1962, Carson's book suggested that…
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Rachel’s Folly: The End of Chlorine
Full Document Available in PDF The environmentalists are right about one thing: Dirty…
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The Business and Regulation of Insurance: A Primer
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Oysters and Willapa Bay
Contents: Oysters Oysters and Willapa Bay Eliminating the Tragedy of the Commons Experimentation and Innovation Fighting for Water…
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Bring competitive power to the people
On Jan. 26, the Michigan Public Service Commission approved a contract which would allow Wisconsin Public Power Co. to provide electricity to the Copper…
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The Role, Limitations and Legitimacy of Regulatory Mechanisms in Market Economies
The charge at this Ditchley conference was a broad one: we were to review the proper scope of regulation and examine how that function…
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A Petition To Declare Times Beach, Missouri A National Historic Landmark
Full Document Available in PDF The Competitive…
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The Karner Blue Butterfly
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Nature’s Hormone Factory: Endocrine Disrupters in the Natural Environment
Full Document Available in PDF For millions of years…
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Emerging Technologies
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Resolving the Tragedy of the Commons by Creating Private Property Rights in Wildlife
Full Document Available in PDF During…
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Private Protection
Since 1970, conservationists have painted a dismal picture of an increasing struggle for survival of wildlife, with one species after another being pushed to the…
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Free Market Environmentalism: Protecting The Planet Via Private Property
Full Book Chapter Available in PDF Format Executive Summary There is an alternative to the traditional approach to environmentalism…
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Two Years After NAFTA: A Free Market Critique and Assessment
Full Document Available in PDF The debate over the…
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The GOP vs. The Environment?
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Citizen’s Petition to FDA
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Appropriations Riders and Environmental Reform: How Appropriate?
Full Version Available In PDF The reform and restriction of federaql regulatory programs is a key element of the conservative Congressional agenda. Many…
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Press Conference: Public in Dark about Alcohol and Heart Disease
WASHINGTON, DC November 6, 1995—CEI today releases a poll showing that over half the American public does not know about the cardiovascular benefits of…
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Assessing the Political Approach to Risk Management
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A Primer on Derivatives
Full Version Available in PDF Although criticized often and considered unfathomably complex, "derivatives" are relatively straightforward financial contracts that are not inherently…
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FERC Should Not Assist Stranded Cost Recovery
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Feel a Heart Attack Coming? Go to France
Imagine that you’ve had a heart attack. Amid the wails of sirens and the flash of red lights, paramedics are rushing to help…
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Federal Agricultural Policy: A Harvest of Environmental Abuse
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Tanks on the Roll
Full article available in pdf format. Article originally appeared in the July 8, 1995 edition of the National Journal and was written by…
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Regulatory Reform: Is it Still a Pipe Dream? A Look at the 104th Congress
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Title V Of The Clean Air Act: Will America’s Industrial Future be Permitted?
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Comments of the Competitive Enterprise Institute to the Federal Aviation Administration on its Proposed Rule to Increase Regulat
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Institute Rolls Out Study on Cars and Freedom
The Car is under increasing attack as a polluter, gas guzzler, and destroyer of civilized life. But in a new study to be presented…
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VAT Chance for Tax Fairness
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Restricting Trade Will Not Help The Environment
Full Article Available in PDF Format Executive Summary Expanding free trade to include all nations could have beneficial effects…
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The Economic Fallacies Of Demand-Side Management
Executive Summary Recent years have seen the emergence of Demand-Side Management (DSM), a new approach to the electricity utility planning process. Through DSM…
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‘Fuelish’
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How To Dismantle The Interior Department
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Autonomy and Automobility
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Who Needs An ExImBank?
Full Document Available in PDF Despite being the world’s leading exporter, the U.S.
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How to Dismantle the Interior Department
Full Document Available in PDF The Department of the Interior was…
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Depleting the Eco-Argumenta
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Privatization of the Power Marketing Administrations
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Reforming the Endangered Species Act: The Property Rights Perspective
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The Basel Convention
The Basel Convention by Ray Evans …
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The Economic Fallacies of Demand-Side Management
Full Document Available in PDF Recent years have seen the emergence of…
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The World Bank’s Trail of Sorrows
View Document as PDF As congress looks for ways to reduce the federal budget, it should start by cutting htose programs with…
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