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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
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The Karner Blue Butterfly
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Nature’s Hormone Factory: Endocrine Disrupters in the Natural Environment
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Emerging Technologies
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Resolving the Tragedy of the Commons by Creating Private Property Rights in Wildlife
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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
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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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The World Bank’s Trail of Sorrows
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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.
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How FDA is Causing a Technologoical Exodus
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A National Agenda for Tort Reform
Full Document Available in PDF Professor Richard Epstein is a prominent legal scholar who has written on a vast range…
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Making the Polluters Pay
Environmentalists often call for a world with zero pollution. The response from industry and professional economists is disbelief. Who is right? That depends…
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Comments to the Federal Aviation Administration on the draft of the Child Restraint Study Report
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The World’s Forests
Full Document Available in PDF A number of diverse currents and pressures are simultaneously being brought to bear on the world’s forests. In…
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Chapter 7: Conserving Biodiversity: Resources for the Future
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Chapter 4: The Coming Age of Abundance
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Chapter 6: Forests: Conflicting Signals
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How And Why To Transfer BLM Lands To The States
Executive Summary Devolving federal responsibilities to the states has emerged as a central theme of the 104th Congress. No area has greater potential…
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Markets and the Environment, A Critical Reappraisal
Full Document Available in PDF The environmental problem is no…
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The True State Of The Planet
The True State of the Planet: Ten of the World’s Premier Environmental Researchers in a Major Challenge to the Environmental Movement Date: 1995 Edited…
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Appendix: Are Property Rights Popular?
Full Document Available in PDF Conflicting sides in the property rights debate claim popular…
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Home Not Alone: New York’s War on Landlords
Full Document Available in PDF The key to rent…
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Property Rights Fact and Fiction
Full Document Available in PDF The rise of property rights activism was…
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Property Wrongs: The Growth of Federal Land-Use Control
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Public vs. Private Land Management: Which is Better for the Environment
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Putting People Last: Endangered Species vs. People
Full Document Available in PDF Law-abiding, workaday Americans all across…
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The Property Rights Reader
Full Document Available in PDF The rise of property rights activism is one of the untold…
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Learning The Washington Game: Political Strategy And Tactics
Full Chapter Available in PDF Format Executive Summary Those entering the federal government who seek to redirect the system to put greater emphasis on…
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Books for Christmas
As a policy wonk, my recommended reading list, not surprisingly, is wonkish. Still, among all those dusty, boring books that make up this body of…
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Soft Targets for Elimination at Energy, Interior, & EPA
Full Document Available in PDF The November 8 elections were a resounding call for smaller, less-intrusive government. The Contract with America – advertised…
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Good Books For Christmas
Full Article Available in PDF Format Executive Summary Contains brief reviews of Searching For Safety, Essays On Economics And…
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Global Warming: Messy Models, Decent Data, Pointless Policy
Full Document Available in PDF The apocalyptic vision of the greenhouse effect has been presented to us all through a never-ending series…
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The Greening Of Trade Policy: “Sustainable Development” and Global Trade
Executive Summary Introduction The Environmental Critique of Trade Free Trade and Environmental Quality Free Markets Are Truly Green Focus on Global Environment Fosters Ecological…
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Trading Away Free Trade
Full article is available in PDF (Liberty magazine, November 1994, pp. 22-26). The General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade has lowered the world’s…
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The Quotable Fred
Full Booklet Available in PDF Format Executive Summary A compendium of quotes from the writings and speeches of CEI president and…
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Oral Statement of Tom Miller Before The Social Security Subcommittee
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Written Statement of Tom Miller Before The Social Security Subcommittee
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A Sign of the Times
In the normally quiet little Gulf Coast town of Port Bolivar, Texas, federal bureaucrats are threatening to throw an old man in jail because he…
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Population, Food, and Income
Full Document Available in PDF World population has increased tremendously in our century…and it continues to grow with extraordinary speed. This demographic explosion,…
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Rats, Lies and the GAO
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The Anti-Redlining Agenda: An Assault on Risk-based Insurance
Executive Summary The House of Representatives is considering two competing bills aimed at addressing recent charges of insurance industry redlining (the refusal to…
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Reinventing Superfund: The Clinton Reform Proposal and an Alternative
Executive Summary Superfund has been universally criticized as an expensive, largely ineffective environmental cleanup program. Even if it worked as intended,…
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The High Cost Of Cool: The Economic Impact of the CFC Phaseout
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Instrastate Trucking: Stronghold of the Regulators
The deregulatory wave of the 1970s and early 1980s freed the railroads, the airlines, air cargo carriers, and interstate trucking and buses from the…
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Pick a Number
Full Study Available in PDF How much would you be willing to pay for an…
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A Free-Market Environmental Vision
Full Chapter Available in PDF Format Executive Summary There is one environmental vision, and only one, that is compatible…
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Fire in Paradise: The Yellowstone Fires and the Politics of Environmentalism
ON AUGUST 20, 1988–A DAY THAT came to be known as “Black Saturday”–about 160,000 acres were consumed by fires in the greater Yellowstone Park…
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A Fresh Look at Environmental Policy
Environmental journalists are, on the whole, fairly good at producing stories. Unfortunately, these lend to be the stories put forward by the environmental establishment: Large…
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The Market and Nature
(Originally appeared in The Freeman, September 1993) Many environmentalists are dissatisfied with the environmental record of free economies. Capitalism, it is claimed, is…
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Better Living through Government Mandate?
Full article available in pdf format.<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = “urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office” /> Technology—or rather government-favored technology—has gained…
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Better Living Through Government Mandate
Technology—or rather government-favored technology—has gained favor among Washington politicos and activists. Technology, these activists seem to believe, makes it possible to mandate almost anything—recycling,…
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If Grizzly Attacks, Drop Your Gun
Thanks to the Endangered Species Act, we can now add grizzly bears to the list of those who can get away with murder under our criminal…
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Kentucky Hosts Rio Follow-Up, But Frivolity is Pretty Big on the Agenda
I eagerly joined more than 1,100 people from forty-nine states gathered in Louisville, Kentucky from May 26-28, 1993. I was a speaker and participant at…
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Kentucky Hosts Rio Follow-Up…but Frivolity is Pretty Big on the Agenda
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Acute Government Activism
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Acute Government Activism
While President Clinton has taken pains to mimic the rhetorical successes of Ronald Reagan and John E Kennedy, he has actually modeled his presidency in the…
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Trouble Standards
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Don’t Cross these Lines
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Rethinking Corporate Strategy
The past four years have not been easy for American business. President Bush was trusted to protect economic concerns in areas ranging from the environment…
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The Clean Fuels Myth and the Market Alternative: Mobile Sources Emissions Charges
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Eco-Apartheid: It’s Africans versus Elephants and Environmentalists
Full document available in pdf format.<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = “urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office” /> Developing nations regularly complain that……
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A Citizen’s Guide To Banking Reform: Building A Fiscal Firewall Between Taxpayers And Failing Banks
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Barriers to Private Insurance
Full Document Available in PDF The American insurance industry is shackled by regulations and restrictions…
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Al Gore, Reactionary Environmentalist
Al Gore has written, “When giving us dominion over the earth, did God choose an appropriate technology?” And then: “One is tempted to answer, the…
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Carnival of Dunces
Rio is a beautiful city, shoehorned between steep granite mountains and seemingly infinite sandy beaches where, despite the thinning of the ozone layer, eco-efficient clothing…
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Planning For A Better Environment
Full Article Available in PDF Format Executive Summary For 20 years, environmental policy has been…
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Consumer Advocacy Group Attacks FDA for Slow Approval of Cancer Treatment
May 14, 1992—(Washington, DC) The Competitive Enterprise Institute today charged that FDA’s delay in approving Interleukin-2 may have cost as many as 3500 lives. IL-2…
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Europe, Energy, and the Environment: The Case Against Carbon Taxes
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Environmental Policy at the Crossroads
Full Chapter Available in PDF Format Executive Summary It has always been with us, and…