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Executive Summary Until recently, the prevailing notion among regulators was that fisheries should be open and available to everyone. This assured that fisheries were…

Study

Resolving the Tragedy of the Commons by Creating Private Property Rights in Wildlife

01/01/1996

Full Document Available in PDF During…

Energy and Environment

Products

Private Protection

01/01/1996

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…

Lands and Wildlife

Op-Eds

Free Market Environmentalism: Protecting The Planet Via Private Property

By: Fred L. Smith, Jr.
12/31/1995

Full Book Chapter Available in PDF Format Executive Summary There is an alternative to the traditional approach to environmentalism…

Energy and Environment

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Two Years After NAFTA: A Free Market Critique and Assessment

By: James M. Sheehan
12/01/1995

Full Document Available in PDF The debate over the…

Business and Government

Op-Eds

The GOP vs. The Environment?

By: Jonathan H. Adler
11/05/1995

[appeared in Investor’s Business Daily’s Editorial Page, A2, November 6, 1995] The Republican drive to reform environmental law looks to be stalled. Last week,…

Comment

Citizen’s Petition to FDA

By: Sam Kazman
10/25/1995

October 25, 1995 TO: Dockets Management Branch, Food and Drug Administration, Department of Health and Human Services, Room 1-23, 12,420 Parklawn Dr., Rockville,…

Study

Appropriations Riders and Environmental Reform: How Appropriate?

By: Jonathan H. Adler
10/15/1995

Full Version Available In PDF The reform and restriction of federaql regulatory programs is a key element of the conservative Congressional agenda. Many…

Business and Government

News Release

Press Conference: Public in Dark about Alcohol and Heart Disease

CEI Staff
10/06/1995

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…

Health and Safety

Op-Eds

Assessing the Political Approach to Risk Management

By: Fred L. Smith, Jr.
10/01/1995

Full Document Available in PDF…

Business and Government

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A Primer on Derivatives

By: Christopher Culp
09/01/1995

Full Version Available in PDF Although criticized often and considered unfathomably complex, "derivatives" are relatively straightforward financial contracts that are not inherently…

Business and Government

Comment

FERC Should Not Assist Stranded Cost Recovery

By: Clyde Wayne Crews
08/04/1995

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA Before the FEDERAL ENERGY REGULATORY COMMISSION In the matter of: ____________________________________ (Recovery of Stranded Costs ) by Public Utilities and )…

Op-Eds

Feel a Heart Attack Coming? Go to France

By: Alexander Volokh
08/02/1995

Imagine that you’ve had a heart attack. Amid the wails of sirens and the flash of red lights, paramedics are rushing to help…

Health and Safety

Study

Federal Agricultural Policy: A Harvest of Environmental Abuse

By: Jonathan Tolman
08/01/1995

Full Study Available in PDF Format Executive Summary Introduction Background Farm Programs Case Study: Sugar Subsidies and the Everglades Other Farm Programs…

Op-Eds

Tanks on the Roll

By: CEI Staff
07/08/1995

Full article available in pdf format. Article originally appeared in the July 8, 1995 edition of the National Journal and was written by…

Business and Government

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Regulatory Reform: Is it Still a Pipe Dream? A Look at the 104th Congress

By: Steven J. Milloy
07/01/1995

Full Document Available in PDF…

Business and Government

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Title V Of The Clean Air Act: Will America’s Industrial Future be Permitted?

By: Ben Lieberman
07/01/1995

Full Document Available in PDF…

Energy and Environment

Comment

Comments of the Competitive Enterprise Institute to the Federal Aviation Administration on its Proposed Rule to Increase Regulat

By: Sam Kazman
06/27/1995

The Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI) hereby submits these comments on the proposal of the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) to impose the more stringent regulations…

News Release

Institute Rolls Out Study on Cars and Freedom

CEI Staff
06/16/1995

The Car is under increasing attack as a polluter, gas guzzler, and destroyer of civilized life. But in a new study to be presented…

Automobiles and Roads

Op-Eds

VAT Chance for Tax Fairness

By: Clyde Wayne Crews
06/14/1995

Business and Government

Op-Eds

Restricting Trade Will Not Help The Environment

By: Fred L. Smith, Jr.
06/06/1995

Full Article Available in PDF Format Executive Summary Expanding free trade to include all nations could have beneficial effects…

Energy and Environment

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The Economic Fallacies Of Demand-Side Management

By: Matthew C. Hoffman
06/05/1995

Executive Summary Recent years have seen the emergence of Demand-Side Management (DSM), a new approach to the electricity utility planning process. Through DSM…

Business and Government

Washington Post

‘Fuelish’

By: Fred L. Smith, Jr.
06/02/1995

Energy and Environment

Study

How To Dismantle The Interior Department

By: Robert H. Nelson
06/01/1995

The Department of the Interior was created in 1849 as the new “Home Department” covering much of domestic affairs. Today, Interior is often thought of…

Study

Autonomy and Automobility

By: Loren Lomasky
06/01/1995

Full Study Available in PDF As the automobile enters its second century, it is increasingly attacked as…

Study

Who Needs An ExImBank?

By: William H. Lash III
06/01/1995

Full Document Available in PDF Despite being the world’s leading exporter, the U.S.

Business and Government

Study

How to Dismantle the Interior Department

By: Robert H. Nelson
06/01/1995

Full Document Available in PDF The Department of the Interior was…

Business and Government

Washington Post

Depleting the Eco-Argumenta

By: CEI Staff
05/25/1995

Energy and Environment

Comment

Privatization of the Power Marketing Administrations

By: Clyde Wayne Crews
05/18/1995

TESTIMONY OF CLYDE WAYNE CREWS, JR. FELLOW IN REGULATORY STUDIES COMPETITIVE ENTERPRISE INSTITUTE BEFORE THE: SUBCOMMITTEE ON WATER AND POWER RESOURCES COMMITTEE ON RESOURCES U.S. HOUSE OF…

Comment

Reforming the Endangered Species Act: The Property Rights Perspective

By: Ike C. Sugg
05/18/1995

Full Document Available in PDF Thank you, Mr.

Rail and Mass Transit

Study

The Basel Convention

By: CEI Staff
05/01/1995

The Basel Convention by Ray Evans …

Law and Litigation

Study

The Economic Fallacies of Demand-Side Management

By: Matthew C. Hoffman
05/01/1995

Full Document Available in PDF Recent years have seen the emergence of…

Business and Government

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The World Bank’s Trail of Sorrows

By: Paul J. Georgia
04/01/1995

View Document as PDF As congress looks for ways to reduce the federal budget, it should start by cutting htose programs with…

Business and Government

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The World Bank’s Trail of Sorrows

By: Paul J. Georgia
04/01/1995

Business and Government

The Freeman

Risks in the Modern World: What Prospects for Rationality?

By: Fred L. Smith, Jr.
03/01/1995

Risk refers to the likelihood that something will go wrong.[1] People naturally fear such mishaps, and risk aversion is a basic survival trait.

Business and Government

Study

How FDA is Causing a Technologoical Exodus

By: CEI Staff
03/01/1995

Full Document Available in PDF Since World War II, medical devices have become increasingly important in the practice of medicine for diagnosis, monitoring,…

Study

A National Agenda for Tort Reform

By: Richard Epstein
03/01/1995

Full Document Available in PDF Professor Richard Epstein is a prominent legal scholar who has written on a vast range…

Law and Litigation

Op-Eds

Making the Polluters Pay

By: Jonathan H. Adler
02/28/1995

Environmentalists often call for a world with zero pollution. The response from industry and professional economists is disbelief. Who is right? That depends…

Energy and Environment

Comment

Comments to the Federal Aviation Administration on the draft of the Child Restraint Study Report

By: Julie DeFalco
02/08/1995

Full Document Available in…

Study

The World’s Forests

By: Roger A. Sedjo
02/01/1995

Full Document Available in PDF A number of diverse currents and pressures are simultaneously being brought to bear on the world’s forests. In…

Energy and Environment

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Chapter 7: Conserving Biodiversity: Resources for the Future

By: Stephen R. Edwards
02/01/1995

An estimated 8 to 10 million different species live on the planet. Of these, only about 1.5 million have been named. Documented animal…

Study

Chapter 4: The Coming Age of Abundance

By: Stephen Moore
02/01/1995

The objective, scientific evidence available today shows that the prophets of doom were wrong in virtually every prediction they made in the 1960s and 1970s…

Study

Chapter 6: Forests: Conflicting Signals

By: Roger A. Sedjo
01/01/1995

Though nearly 75 percent of the total industrial wood production comes from Northern Hemisphere industrial countries, the temperate forestlands of this region are expanding.

Study

How And Why To Transfer BLM Lands To The States

By: Robert H. Nelson
01/01/1995

Executive Summary Devolving federal responsibilities to the states has emerged as a central theme of the 104th Congress. No area has greater potential…

Energy and Environment

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Markets and the Environment, A Critical Reappraisal

By: Fred L. Smith, Jr.
01/01/1995

Full Document Available in PDF The environmental problem is no…

Energy and Environment

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The True State Of The Planet

By: Ronald Bailey
01/01/1995

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…

Climate