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‘Violent Saviors’: William Easterly’s Book on Imperialism and Conquest
While framed as a book about economic development theory and the history of colonialism, William Easterly’s latest tome is actually something grander and more ambitious:…
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Freedom from the Robinson-Patman Act Is Never More Than One Generation Away from Extinction
The National Review cited CEI’s new report on the Robinson- Patman law As I detail in a new report for the Competitive Enterprise…
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Despite its reluctance, tariff setting is the job of Congress — not Trump
The Supreme Court’s recent ruling against the legality of President Donald Trump’s tariffs was fundamentally about the rule…
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Shadow Insurance Regulation Committee issues statements on Commercial Insurance Deregulation, Workers’ Comp, and Electronic Comm
Washington, DC, April 19, 1999 – The Shadow Insurance Regulation Committee issued three statements of consensus today, concerning commercial insurance deregulation, workers’ compensation…
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Anti-Trust Law For Dummies
There's a secret to anti-trust law, but learning it isn't likely to reassure a high tech investor pondering the implications of the Microsoft verdict. The…
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The US versus Microsoft: Winners and Losers — Melugin Op-Ed in Ft. Worth Star-Telegram
<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = “urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office” /> Let Consumers – Not the Government – Play Favorites…
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Microsoft Stands Up for Consumers and Innovation
Washington, DC, April 3, 2000 – Consumers and the Competitive Enterprise Institute today praised Microsoft for refusing to sell out consumers’ interests by settling…
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California, Here They Come
Last month, I briefly visited the San Francisco Bay area. I’ve been in the region numerous times during the past few years, and each…
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Are Most Americans Dirty? The League of Conservation Voters Thinks So
Is your congressman “pro-environment” or “anti-environmental” Is your congressman "pro-environment" or "anti-environmental"? Every year, the League of Conservation Voters tries to answer that…
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Odds & Ends: Toe Sucking Advice; Nader’s Right?; Deputy Undersecretary for Hot Sauce
GO GREEN, AL! Disgraced political consultant Dick Morris has weighed in with advice to the vice president on how to win in November:…
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Internet Sales Taxation: Beyond the Moratorium
The Internet sales tax debate has been between the National Governors Association’s proposal to grant states the power of remote taxation and the…
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Antitrust Not On Internet Time: Microsoft Remedies Discount Serious Competitive Threats
Many have come to believe that the technology industry requires strict governmental policing of allegedly anti-competitive behavior. But today’s software and Internet companies…
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Privacy Disclosure Requirements: Boon or Bane?
View Full Document as PDF Après Reg P: Le Deluge–You’ve Got (Lots of) Mail The booming US economy demonstrates the…
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Public Interest Group Hails Supreme Court Snuff-Out of FDA Tobacco Regs
Washington, DC, March 21, 2000 – The Competitive Enterprise Institute applauded today’s Supreme Court invalidation of the Food and Drug Administration’s attempt to regulate…
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Rocket Fuel for Tech Stocks
Delong Op-Ed in Tech Central Station Last week, Bill Clinton and Tony Blair harrumphed about ownership rights in human genetic research, and biotech…
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Institute Proposes ‘Golden Rule’ of E-Commerce
Washington, DC, March 20, 2000 – “I urge the Advisory Commission of Electronic Commerce to do the right thing this week and oppose taxation…
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What On Earth Is Going On? CEI vs. Worldwatch, Round 1
Ron Bailey, science correspondent for Reason magazine and a former CEI Warren Brookes Fellow in Environmental Journalism,…
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Keep Internet Privacy Privatized
The Federal Trade Commission announced to some fanfare recently it would be investigating various health care Web sites, along with Internet advertising agency DoubleClick,…
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The Gore Report: Leo the Lip; Neglected Tuna; Altoids, Anyone?
Lock Up the Gore Girls! Leonardo DiCaprio came out of the political closet last month and announced he is a passionate supporter of Al…
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Odds & Ends: Eunuchs & Soybeans on the March; Bloody Valentines; USPS Down for the Count
Cut Them Off at the Halls of Power Wire reports recently indicated that the latest political story out of India is the entrance…
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Don’t Tax the Net: Fred Smith in Economic Affairs
Published in Economic Affairs, the journal of the Institute of Economic Affairs<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = “urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office” /> Edited…
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CEI’s Fred Smith is Marketing the Market
Full article available in pdf format.<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = “urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office” /> Navigator: CEI was founded in…
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Jump, Jive an’ Reform Regulation
Full Document Available in PDF Cost-benefit analysis has long been a centerpiece of regulatory…
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New Study Provides “How-To” Guide for Regulatory Reform
Washington, DC, February 29, 2000 –A new report released today by the Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI) called for congressional approval of all major regulations…
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I Want My Antitrust! MTV Experiences Government’s Peculiar View of the Real World
I Want My Antitrust! MTV Experiences Government’s Peculiar View of the Real World In December, the antitrust…
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League of Conservation Voters “Scorecard”: Most Americans Are “Dirty”
Every year, the League of Conservation Voters issues a “Congressional Scorecard.” Supposedly, this Scorecard tells the American public which members of Congress support…
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The Dangers of Precaution
Full Document Available in PDF Has Europe, long the home of so…
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Clinton Budget Is Not The Full Story
Washington, DC, February 7, 2000 – President Clinton’s new fiscal year 2000 budget proposes to spend $1.84 trillion. While that enormous amount would absorb…
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High Tech Expert Joins CEI
Washington, DC, February 2, 2000 – The Competitive Enterprise Institute announced today that Jessica Melugin has joined the staff as a Policy Analyst. Prior…
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AOL Time Warner? Not Big Enough for Tomorrow’s Internet
The America Online-Time Warner alliance is important not just for its size nor for the synergy it may create. It demonstrates in the real…
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Kemp: The Triumph of Democratic Capitalism
Every victory brings new risks. The biggest risk today is a statist counterrevolution being engineered by the architects of a "Third Way…
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Ten Thousand Commandments: An Annual Policymaker’s Snapshot of the Federal Regulatory State (2000 Edition)
Full Study Available in PDF Format The federal government spent $1.7 trillion in 1999 to…
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Odds & Ends: Dangerous Wetlands; Up in Smoke; Haider Ho; Who’s This Hayek Guy, Anyway?
They Ban Aerosol Cans, Why Not Wetlands? A big dilemma is shaping up for the environmental left. Scientists from the Scripps Institution of Oceanography in…
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The Gore Report: Keeping Tabs on Our Favorite Environmentalist
Elect Him, Or We’re Doomed! Each presidential election is always billed by some navel-gazing pundit or analyst as the most important in a generation. Then…
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Windows and the “Applications Barrier to Entry”: Fact or Fantasy?
View Full Document as PDF Very soon, U.S. District Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson is expected to issue his conclusions of law…
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An Interview with James Glassman
Jim Glassman is among the most prescient observers of political and economic trends in America today, with an understanding of first economic principles that…
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Beware the Internet Tax Hackers
Tax-hungry Grinches aren’t happy that you pay no taxes when Christmas shopping on the Internet. The nation’s governors and state and local officials,…
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The Gore Report: Keeping Tabs on Our Favorite Environmentalist
Debatable Behavior The Washington Post reports that Al Gore’s campaign has been sending a man dressed up as an ear of…
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Odds & Ends: Animal Rights Conundrum; Washington Psychopaths; Evil Vegetables; Who Needs the Constitution?
Animal Rights Conundrum, Part I What do you do when a cougar waltzes up to your house and eats your dog? Donald and Nelda…
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The Future of Financial Privacy
Chapters Now Available In PDF Format In The Future of Financial Privacy, a new book from the Competitive Enterprise Institute,…
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A Cowboy Economy?
On recent trips to Europe, I’ve become increasingly aware of a reality disconnect between the way America is and the way we’re viewed…
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Winning Intellectual Battles, Losing Cultural Wars
While free market advocates wage the intellectual fight, the statists have conquered much of our culture. Twice recently, I was asked to contribute…
News Release
CEI to Commission: Don’t Shackle E-Commerce with Taxes
Washington, DC, December 14, 1999 – Internet taxes would cause irreparable harm to the New Economy, millions of Internet consumers, and the cause of…
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Engines of Liberty: Cars and the Collapse of Communism in Eastern Europe
Full Document Available in PDF…
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Privacy and Human Rights: Comparing the United States to Europe
One premise shaping the debate about privacy law in the United States is that the European Data Protection Directive is a more advanced…
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Method to Telecom Merger Madness
The telecommunications world was rocked in October with news of the merger between MCI-WorldCom and Sprint–in dollar terms the largest merger in US history.
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Rush to Tax Could Produce Net Loss
In the great Kurosawa Akira movie, The Seven Samurai, a bandit gang rides to a hillside and looks down on a small village. One…
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Odds & Ends: Toking at the DoE, Pepe LePew Raises a Stink, Fabio, Square Dancing
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Federal Reinsurance for Homeowner’s Insurance: Another Capitol Hill Disaster.
Storm clouds over Capitol Hill. House Banking Committee members are teetering on the brink of triggering a mega-disaster this week that is pointed…
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Selling Ideas in a Rationally Ignorant World
Conservative intellectuals are increasingly frustrated at the policy impasse of the last five years. Weren’t we told that if we built a better mousetrap, the…
News Release
Shadow Insurance Committee to Meet October 25 to Review Catastrophe Insurance Financing & Redlining Issues
Washington, D.C., October 22, 1999 – The Shadow Insurance Regulation Committee will hold its second meeting of the year at 12 noon on October…
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Environmental Sweetheart Suits
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Taking Humor Seriously
With summer coming to an end, we at CEI have been spending some time mulling over some of the great questions facing our country.
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Clyde Wayne Crews
Fred L. Smith Fellow in Regulatory Studies
- Business and Government
- Consumer Freedom
- Deregulation
Richard Morrison
Senior Fellow
- Antitrust
- Business and Government
- Capitalism and Free Enterprise
Ryan Young
Senior Economist and Director of Publications
- Antitrust
- Business and Government
- Regulatory Reform