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Free Trade and Idealism
In October, the International Religious Freedom Act of 1998 passed through the U.S. Congress with little opposition. The new law enables unilateral export embargoes to be…
Newsletter
Vol. II, No. 25
Politics Early Credit for Emissions Reductions The latest attempt to implement the Kyoto Protocol without Senate ratification is a scheme to use the threat of…
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Wal-Mart: Santa or Satan?
View Full Document as PDF As Christmas shoppers flock to Wal-Mart, filling its parking lots to overflowing, should they feel they’ve…
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National Environmental Survey
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Is the Kyoto Protocol Dead?
View Full Document as PDF Is the Kyoto Protocol, the global warming treaty negotiated in December 1997, any closer to being…
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Beneficial Effects of Consumption of Low Levels of Alcohol
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Smart Growth Stupidity
For years, redevelopment has been pushing Austin’s low-income Latinos eastwards. A couple decades ago, the culprit was a highway: IH35, a road that runs…
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What A Congress
As1998 draws to a close, it’s appropriate to look back at the most significant deregulatory successes that have been achieved during the year. Where should…
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Predation’s Problems (Continued)
The case against predatory pricing is much stronger than argued by Donald Boudreaux in "The Problem with Predation" (CEI UpDate, September 1998). Boudreaux relies primarily…
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Could Kyoto Kill?
Whether or not the United States should ratify an international treaty to limit greenhouse gases is the most prominent question in today’s environmental policy debate.
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Airline Deregulation – The Next Step
In the 20th anniversary year of airline deregulation, air travel is again at the forefront of public policy. Policymakers have been besieged with a variety…
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Airline Deregulation: The Unfinished Revolution
Full Document Available in PDF In the 20th anniversary year of airline…
Commerce and Industry Association of New Jersey
Wealthier is Healthier
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How to Get Real Social Security: Tom Miller Article in Reader’s Digest
“Am I ever going to see that money again Published in Reader’s Digest December 1998 “Am I ever going to see…
Newsletter
Vol. II, No. 24
Politics Combining Montreal with Kyoto Many issues were discussed at the climate change talks in Buenos Aires this month, but one of the most disturbing…
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Comments Before the Federal Communications Commission
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Only The Forest Service Can Prevent Forests
Remember,” Smokey Bear likes to remind careless campers, “only you can prevent forest fires.” Only you – and the U.S. Forest Service, which has been…
News Release
Another Smoking Gun: Institute Opposes New Tobacco Settlement
Washington, D.C. November 17, 1998—The Competitive Enterprise Institute today announced its opposition to the latest tobacco settlement, calling it an affront to both individual…
Commerce and Industry Association of New Jersey
Kyoto, A Real dodo of a treaty
Newsletter
Vol. II, No. 23
Politics A Report from Our Team in Buenos Aires Only 2,000 people reportedly participated in the event’s first week, a far cry from the…
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FDA Modernization After One Year: Drug Approval is Still Too Slow
The Food and Drug Administration Modernization Act of 1997—signed into law one year ago this Wednesday—is under attack. Spurred by the withdrawal of…
Commerce and Industry Association of New Jersey
Funding the Lobby of Global Warming
Of all the shocking budget deal capitulations the Republican Congress made to the White House, none is more inexplicable than the decision to provide almost $200…
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DOJ Gets No Credit For Visa Complaint: Case Will Stifle Bank Card Innovation
The specter of the U.S. Department of Justice as "social engineer" — seeking to shape markets into a narrow and static mold of…
Commerce and Industry Association of New Jersey
A New Heavy at Food and Drug?
Heartland
News from the Heartland
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Global Warming: Evidence From The Satellite Record
Full Briefing available in PDF format. Preface The scientific case for an international climate treaty rests largely on predictions generated…
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Climate Change: Insights from Oceanography
Full Document Available in PDF The global warming establishment asserts that the science underlying…
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The Oregon Water Trust
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Vol. II, No. 22
Politics EPA Lacks Authority to Regulate CO2 Following the completion of the Kyoto Protocol, Carol Browner, Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), testified before…
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2+2=6
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Emission Credits: The Supply & Demand Gap
Full Briefing available in PDF format. Preface Last year, some 160 nations negotiated an agreement in Kyoto, Japan, that would require the…
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Encryption Policy for the 21st Century: A Future without Government-Prescribed Key Recovery
Full Document Available in PDF Encryption technology…
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Vol. II, No. 21
Politics Little Progress Expected in Buenos Aires The fourth Conference of the Parties (COP-4) will meet in Buenos Aires, Argentina on November 2-13 to further…
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Temperature Data Still Riddled With Errors.
With the evidence for man-made global warming becoming more tenuous each year, green activists like Vice President Al Gore have been reduced to…
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Regulatory Sprawl: Who Should Decide Where We Live?
View Full Document as PDF On September 9, the Sierra Club released a distraught report on urban sprawl, blaming the spread…
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A National Survey Of Neurologists And Neurosurgeons Regarding The Food And Drug Administration
Full Document Available in PDF…
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Cars and Communism
The following is excerpted from a forthcoming CEI monograph on mobility and the fall of Communism. Our grandparents told us…
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And Justice for All: The State Experience with Property Rights Legislation
Full Document Available in PDF The ownership…
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Could Kyoto Kill? The Mortality Costs of Climate Policies
Full Document Available in PDF Whether or not the United…
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Doomsday Déjà vu: Ozone Depletion’s Lessons for Global Warming
Full Document Available in PDF The Kyoto Protocol to…
Newsletter
Vol. II, No. 20
Politics U.S., EU Move Toward Consensus? Following two days of informal ministerial meetings in Tokyo, Japan on September 16-17, negotiators from the United States and…
Heartland
EPA Aided Mill Fighters
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Save Methyl Bromide
A battle is raging in Washington between farmers and environmental regulators. At issue is the chemical methyl bromide, and the outcome could affect…
Heartland
Customers Granted Microsoft its 90 Percent Market Share
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Vol. II, No. 19
Politics New Tax Credit Plan Unveiled The Clinton Administration’s tax and spend plan to avert global warming is being resurrected in the form of the…
Heartland
Global warming hype needs light, not heat
Newsletter
Vol. II, No. 18
Politics Energy Secretary: Global Warming Message Not Getting Out The Clinton administration’s new Energy Secretary Bill Richardson recently remarked that the administration has been “out-gunned…
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Government Research Funding And Economic Distortion
Full Chapter Available in PDF Format Executive Summary Science and technology are good things. Still, there are many good…
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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…