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The Simple ABC’s of Regulatory Reform
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Culling To Be Kind: Why This Year’s Ivory Sales Will Help Elephant Conservation
View Full Document as PDF This month, nearly 34 tons of elephant ivory from Namibia and Zimbabwe will be shipped to…
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Passenger Service Regulation: A Placebo for Air Travel
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Conservation and the Public Trust Doctrine
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Ending The Forest Fire Gridlock: Making Fire Fighting In The West A State And Local Responsibility
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Ten Thousand Commandments: An Annual Policymaker’s Snapshot of the Federal Regulatory State (1999 Edition)
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The Problems With Planning: A Free-Market Guide To Suburban Development & “Urban Sprawl”
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The First Family’s Asthma Problems
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Saving Fisheries without Property Rights: “Surgery with a Baseball Bat”
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Early Action Crediting: Growing the Kyoto Lobby at Small Business’ Expense
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A Defective Product: Consumer Groups’ Study of Microsoft In Need of Recall
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So, What Will This Unfunded Mandate Cost Me?
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Credit for Early Implementation: Kyoto Through the Front Door
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Electricity Reform in Colorado
Full Document Available in PDF Consumers in Colorado pay prices for electricity that are among the lowest in the country. Therefore, indeed they…
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The Exxon-Mobil Merger: The Lessons of History
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Wal-Mart: Santa or Satan?
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Is the Kyoto Protocol Dead?
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Airline Deregulation: The Unfinished Revolution
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FDA Modernization After One Year: Drug Approval is Still Too Slow
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Climate Change: Insights from Oceanography
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The Oregon Water Trust
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Encryption Policy for the 21st Century: A Future without Government-Prescribed Key Recovery
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Temperature Data Still Riddled With Errors.
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Regulatory Sprawl: Who Should Decide Where We Live?
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A National Survey Of Neurologists And Neurosurgeons Regarding The Food And Drug Administration
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And Justice for All: The State Experience with Property Rights Legislation
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Could Kyoto Kill? The Mortality Costs of Climate Policies
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Doomsday Déjà vu: Ozone Depletion’s Lessons for Global Warming
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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…
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Kyoto & Our Collective Economic Future: Economic & Energy Underpinnings
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Federal Government Doles Out Millions in Greenhouse Pork
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Why Robert Bork Is Wrong:
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Warming Without Regrets: A Free-Market Approach To Uncertainty And Climate Change
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Computers and Competition: A Primer for Congress
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Clinton-Gore and the Costs of Kyoto: Numbers Out of Thin Air
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Property Owners Deserve Equal Access To Justice
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Saving Species or Saving Face?
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Natural Bridge of Virginia
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Insuring Against Natural Disasters: Possibilities for Market-Based Reform
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Mitigation of Climate Change: A Scientific Appraisal
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Taking Private Land for Private Interests: The Agenda and Policies of the American Farmland Trust
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A Disaster Waiting to Happen: Why Washington Shouldn’t Subsidize Disaster Insurance
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Why the UN Desertification Treaty is All Wet
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Conservation Through Commerce
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Electric Avenues: Why “Open Access” Can’t Compete
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A Texas-Sized Land-Use Plan: The Central Texas Rare Species Conservation Plan
The Texas Parks and Wildlife Department (TPW) is developing a new program known as “the Central Texas Rare Species Conservation Plan.” The plan is…
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EPA’s Asthma Miasma
Is the Environmental Protection Agency a friend or enemy of asthmatic children? It all depends on which issue the agency is peddling.
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Destroying Competition in Order to Save It: Predation Rules and the Airline Industry
“We had to destroy the village in order to save it.” According to legend, this rationale was once given by the U.S. army to…
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Flush With Anger: Should Washington Regulate Toilets?
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Michigan’s Insurance Industry: New Directions
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Common and Private Property Rights
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Conservation Easements & Private Land Stewardship
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Privileged Polluters: The Case Against Exempting Municipalities From Superfund
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The Common Law Approach to Pollution Prevention
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Bill, Bob, and Browsers: Why DOJ’s Case Against Microsoft is Flawed
While Microsoft has been pilloried by newspaper pundits, a trial court judge, and other alleged computer experts for not submitting to the federal government,…
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Network Effects: Does Luck or Talent Rule the High-Technology Market?
Does luck matter more than talent in the marketplace after all? Many of today’s calls for antitrust interference in the marketplace are rooted in a…
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Ten Thousand Commandments: A Policymaker’s Snapshot of the Federal Regulatory State (1998 edition)
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Privacy As Censorship: A Skeptical View of Proposals to Regulate Privacy in the Private Sector
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What Makes for a Good Land Trust?
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Risk-Based Homeowners Insurance Under Siege: The Slippery Slope From Redlining Charges To Disparate Impact Claims
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Teaching Environmental Education to Wisconsin Teachers
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The Human Costs of Global Warming Policy
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The M&T Staten Ranch, Walnut Grove, California
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Seizing the High Ground: Cautionary Notes on the Rhetoric of Climate Change Policy
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Superfund XVII: The Pathology of Environmental Policy
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Antitrust Policy As Corporate Welfare
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The Central Planning Of Lifestyles: Automobility And The Illusion Of Full Cost Pricing
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Antitrust and The Commons: Cooperation or Collusion?
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Calmer Weather: The Spin on Greenhouse Hurricanes
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The Yellowstone Affair: Environmental Protection, International Treaties, And National Sovereignty
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The Yellowstone Affair: Environmental Protection, International Treaties, and National Sovereignty
Full study available in pdf format Environmental regulation has gone international in recent decades. There has been a proliferation of treaties, conventions, and protocols aimed…
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Swamped: How America Achieved No Net Loss
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Environmental Audits: State Carrots Versus Federal Sticks In Environmental Enforcement
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Sudden Impact: The Collision Between The Air Bag Mandate And Ethics
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ISO 14000: Envrionmental Regulation By Any Other Name?
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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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How To Reform Grazing Policy
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The Kern River Preserve
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Beyond The Communications Decency Act: Constitutional Lessons Of The Internet
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Anti-Gambling Politics – Time to Reshuffle the Deck
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Cleaning Hands In Predation Cases: A Modest Proposal To Improve Predatory-Pricing Suits
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Trashing Free Trade: The Basel Convention’s Impact
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The Tragedy of the Commons Revisited: Politics vs. Private Property
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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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Cardiac and Cancer Specialists on the Need for FDA Reform
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A National Survey of Attitudes on Environmental Policy
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Breaking The FDA’s Drug Approval Monopoly:
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Environmental Education in Wisconsin: What the Textbooks Teach
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How the Market Self-Polices Against Predatory Pricing
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