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Executive Summary The Food and Drug Administration’s monopoly over approving new medical therapies is premised on the idea that information markets fail. In…

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Environmental Education in Wisconsin: What the Textbooks Teach

By: Michael Sanera, Ph.D.
06/01/1996

Full Document Available in PDF Introduction Our schools…

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How the Market Self-Polices Against Predatory Pricing

By: Andrew N. Kleit
06/01/1996

Full Document Available in PDF Courts today are more skeptical than…

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Private Reef Building in Alabama and Florida

By: Michael De Alessi
06/01/1996

Full Document Available in PDF Fishing communities around the world…

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How Much Is God Worth?

By: Robert H. Nelson
05/01/1996

Full Document Available in PDF Economics has traditionally put a value only on goods…

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The Free Market Automobility Bibliography

By: Sam Kazman
04/01/1996

Automobiles and Roads

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Promise and Peril: Implementing a Regulatory Budget

By: Clyde Wayne Crews
04/01/1996

Full Document Available in PDF The size of the federal budget…

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Property Rights, Regulatory Takings, and Environmental Protection

By: Jonathan H. Adler
04/01/1996

Executive Summary Under current environmental laws individual Americans have been prevented from building homes, plowing fields, filling ditches, felling trees, clearing brush, and…

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Rethinking Insurance Regulation

By: CEI Staff
03/08/1996

View Full Document as PDF Dr. Joseph Olson delivered a keynote address at the Mayflower Hotel for a conference sponsored by the…

Insurance

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Rachel’s Folly: The End of Chlorine

By: Michael Fumento
03/01/1996

Full Document Available in PDF The environmentalists are right about one thing: Dirty…

Chemical Risk

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The Business and Regulation of Insurance: A Primer

By: Catherine England
03/01/1996

Full Document Available in PDF…

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Oysters and Willapa Bay

By: Michael De Alessi
03/01/1996

Contents: Oysters Oysters and Willapa Bay Eliminating the Tragedy of the Commons Experimentation and Innovation Fighting for Water…

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A Petition To Declare Times Beach, Missouri A National Historic Landmark

By: Eric Askanase
02/22/1996

Full Document Available in PDF The Competitive…

Energy and Environment

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The Karner Blue Butterfly

By: Jonathan Tolman
02/01/1996

In 1992 the Fish and Wildlife Service listed the Karner blue butterfly as an endangered species. Although now considered rare and declining in…

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Nature’s Hormone Factory: Endocrine Disrupters in the Natural Environment

By: Jonathan Tolman
02/01/1996

Full Document Available in PDF For millions of years…

Energy and Environment

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Emerging Technologies

By: Michael De Alessi
01/01/1996

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

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

01/01/1996

Full Document Available in PDF During…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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.

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How to Dismantle the Interior Department

By: Robert H. Nelson
06/01/1995

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

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The Basel Convention

By: CEI Staff
05/01/1995

The Basel Convention by Ray Evans …

Law and Litigation

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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…

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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…

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The World Bank’s Trail of Sorrows

By: Paul J. Georgia
04/01/1995

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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,…

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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

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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…

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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…

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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.

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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

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Appendix: Are Property Rights Popular?

By: Brian Seasholes
01/01/1995

Full Document Available in PDF Conflicting sides in the property rights debate claim popular…

Energy and Environment

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Home Not Alone: New York’s War on Landlords

By: Sam Kazman
01/01/1995

Full Document Available in PDF The key to rent…

Property Rights

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Property Rights Fact and Fiction

By: Jonathan H. Adler
01/01/1995

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

By: Ike C. Sugg
01/01/1995

Full Document Available in PDF In the spring of…

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Public vs. Private Land Management: Which is Better for the Environment

By: Nicole Arbogast
01/01/1995

Full Document Available in PDF The…

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Putting People Last: Endangered Species vs. People

By: Mike Vivoli
01/01/1995

Full Document Available in PDF Law-abiding, workaday Americans all across…

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The Property Rights Reader

By: Brian Seasholes, Ike C. Sugg, Jonathan H. Adler, Jonathan Tolman, Mike Vivoli, Nicole Arbogast, Sam Kazman
01/01/1995

Full Document Available in PDF The rise of property rights activism is one of the untold…

Energy and Environment

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Soft Targets for Elimination at Energy, Interior, & EPA

By: Marlo Lewis, Jr.
12/01/1994

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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Global Warming: Messy Models, Decent Data, Pointless Policy

By: Robert C. Balling, Jr.
11/01/1994

Full Document Available in PDF The apocalyptic vision of the greenhouse effect has been presented to us all through a never-ending series…

Climate

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The Greening Of Trade Policy: “Sustainable Development” and Global Trade

By: James M. Sheehan
11/01/1994

Executive Summary Introduction The Environmental Critique of Trade Free Trade and Environmental Quality Free Markets Are Truly Green Focus on Global Environment Fosters Ecological…

Energy and Environment

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Population, Food, and Income

By: CEI Staff
08/01/1994

Full Document Available in PDF World population has increased tremendously in our century…and it continues to grow with extraordinary speed. This demographic explosion,…

Energy and Environment

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The Anti-Redlining Agenda: An Assault on Risk-based Insurance

By: Catherine England
07/01/1994

Executive Summary The House of Representatives is considering two competing bills aimed at addressing recent charges of insurance industry redlining (the refusal to…

Insurance

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Reinventing Superfund: The Clinton Reform Proposal and an Alternative

By: Kent Jeffreys
06/01/1994

Executive Summary Superfund has been universally criticized as an expensive, largely ineffective environmental cleanup program. Even if it worked as intended,…

Energy and Environment

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The High Cost Of Cool: The Economic Impact of the CFC Phaseout

By: Ben Lieberman
06/01/1994

Full Document Available…

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Instrastate Trucking: Stronghold of the Regulators

By: Cassandra C. Moore
02/16/1994

The deregulatory wave of the 1970s and early 1980s freed the railroads, the airlines, air cargo carriers, and interstate trucking and buses from the…

Antitrust

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Pick a Number

By: Roger Bate
01/01/1994

Full Study Available in PDF How much would you be willing to pay for an…

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Rethinking Corporate Strategy

By: Fred L. Smith, Jr.
01/01/1993

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

By: Anthony Woodlief
12/31/1992

Full Document Available in PDF…

Climate

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A Citizen’s Guide To Banking Reform: Building A Fiscal Firewall Between Taxpayers And Failing Banks

By: Tom Miller
12/01/1992

PUBLISHED BY CITIZENS AGAINST GOVERNMENT WASTE, 12/92 Introduction The mounting problems of the commercial banking industry continue to cripple the U.S. economy and hold American…

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A Free Market Environmental Program for the Soviet Union

By: Fred L. Smith, Jr.
09/10/1990

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Washington Antitrust Report

By: James L. Gattuso
08/01/1987

Full Document Available in PDF Political momentum is building up in Congress behind legislation to reverse recent judicial interpretations and administrative enforcement policy…

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Antitrust and the 99th Congress

By: James L. Gattuso, Tom Miller
01/01/1987

Full Document Available in PDF…

Antitrust

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Washington Antitrust Report

By: James L. Gattuso, Tom Miller
10/01/1986

View Full Document as PDF Antitrust reform is in serious trouble. The Administration’s efforts to legislate…

Antitrust