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Publicity Value of Having Someone Do a Take-Off on Your Commercial: Priceless
Last week, MasterCard filed a $5 million law suit against Ralph Nader’s presidential campaign for piggybacking on its “Priceless” ad series. …
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A Burning Issue
This book argues that the U.S. Forest Service has outlived its usefulness. It should be abolished. Founded in 1905,…
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Poisonous Propaganda: Global Echoes of an Anti-Vinyl Agenda
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Revitalizing Urban America: Cleaning up the Brownfields
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Greenhouse Policy Without Regrets: A Free Market Approach to the Uncertain Risks of Climate Change
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Phillips Petroleum Company Funds the Politicizing of Children on Environmental Issues
Phillips Petroleum Company provides the funds for the distribution of the “Wild About Life: Activity Guide” to the nation’s middle and high schools. …
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Ecology, Liberty & Property
Ecology, Liberty & Property: A Free Market Environmental Reader Publication Date: Spring 2000Price: $16.95ISBN #1-889865-02-8 Are free markets and environmental protection compatible? Is…
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Empowering Consumers on the Internet: How Privacy-Protecting Technologies Have Rendered Regulation Unnecessary
The Federal Trade Commission’s latest online privacy report, released earlier this week, calls for federal regulation of the way Internet companies collect and…
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Internet Taxation: Why Wyden Won’t Wash
View Full Document as PDF After only three weeks of what apparently passes for congressional deliberation these days, the Internet tax…
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Internet Taxation: Controversy Likely to Continue
Less than a month after the Advisory Commission on Electronic Commerce (ACEC) delivered its report to Congress, the House Judiciary Committee has passed a…
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End the “Bank Anti-Secrecy” Assault on Financial Privacy
View Full Document as PDF Treasury Secretary Lawrence Summers recently announced plans to ask Congress to greatly expand the powers of the…
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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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Jump, Jive an’ Reform Regulation
Full Document Available in PDF Cost-benefit analysis has long been a centerpiece of regulatory…
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Opération Déclubage Management of Recreational Fisheries in the Province of Québec
Full Document Available in PDF In the 1974 movie The Apprenticeship…
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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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Air Bag-Related Recalls Demonstrate The Need For Real-World Testing As A Prerequisite For Any Air Bag Mandate Whatsoever
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Kyoto Lite: Credits for Early Action to Reduce CO2
(REPRINTED FROM THE JUDICIAL/LEGISLATIVE WATCH REPORT OF THE NATIONAL LEGAL CENTER FOR THE PUBLIC INTEREST) An old joke tells of a young…
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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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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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Regulating Greenhouse Gases: Will EPA Take a Dive?
The International Center for Technology Assessment (ICTA) wants the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to regulate carbon dioxide. This fall, ICTA, an anti-technology group…
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Private Conservation and Black Rhinos in Zimbabwe: The Savé Valley and Bubiana Conservancies
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Earth Report 2000
Earth Report 2000: Revisiting the True State of the Planet Date: 1999 Edited by: Ronald Bailey Published by: McGraw-Hill Earth Report 2000 is a…
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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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Engines of Liberty: Cars and the Collapse of Communism in Eastern Europe
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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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First Do No Harm: EPA’s New Rules Will Worsen Smog
On May 13, 1999, the Environmental Protection Agency proposed new rules tightening motor vehicle emissions, including those from light trucks, a category of…
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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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Superfund Legislation: True Reform or a Hazardous Waste?
Given the green light by House Speaker Dennis Hastert (R-IL) to produce Superfund reform legislation before the session’s end, House Republicans are racing…
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Cars, Women, and Minorities: The Democratization of Mobility in America
Full Document Available in PDF The central role of…
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Running On MTBE: Closing The Pumps On The Oxygen Content Requirement
Debate is raging in Congress and in many state legislatures regarding the federal Clean Air Act’s reformulated gasoline (RFG) program, which requires the addition…
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Comments Submitted in the FTC/NTIA Workshop on Online Profiling
These comments will address the following questions: I. What are the costs and benefits, to both industry and consumers, of online profiling? II. Are…
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Kemp: On Kyoto, The Issue Is Power
The Kyoto Protocol on global warming, and its underlying premise that the entire world’s energy policies can be regulated pursuant to an international treaty,…
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A National Survey Of Emergency Room Physicians Regarding The Food And Drug Administration
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Capital Markets: The Importance of Lower Taxes
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Facts Not Fear
In schools today, it is typical to see walls covered with posters depicting endangered animals. Students hold tee-shirt sales to raise money to save…
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Jack Kemp: Closing Down the Hard Times CAFE
Congress soon will decide whether to continue the “freeze” on existing CAFE (Corporate Average Fuel Economy) standards that have been in place for…
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Microsoft Trial: The Heat is On
View Full Document as PDF This summer, the heat is on Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson even more than the rest of…
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Anti-“Sprawl” Policy: Congested Thinking and Dense Logic
“Urban sprawl” has morphed into a catchall phrase that describes the cause and consequence of any social deviation related to the suburbs, including, and…
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Lawmakers Trashing the Poor?
Full Study Available In PDF Format For more than two decades, various states have battled…
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Speedbumps, Potholes, and Detours on the Road to Social Security Reform
As Yogi Berra once said, “You’ve got to be careful if you don’t know where you’re going ’cause you might not get there.” This year’s…
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Electricity Deregulation: Wired or Tangled in the 106th Congress’s Committees?
When policymakers embark upon restructuring as opposed to deregulating a heavily regulated industry, they risk creating more regulation than existed before. This is…
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Electricity Reform in Colorado: A Resource Guide for Citizens & Policymakers
Executive Summary ·Deregulation of telecommunications, natural gas, and transportation saved American consumers billions of dollars, created new choices among sellers and spurred numerous…
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Dumb and Dumber: Two Wrongs Don’t Make A Patients’ Bill of Rights
This week, the Senate considers legislation to impose a lengthy laundry list of new federal regulations and accompanying costs on employer-insured health plans. The…
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The Data Access Law: Promoting Accountability and Privacy
With the passage of the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) in 1966, our society decided to promote government transparency: what is done in government’s name…
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The SAFE Bill: Keying in on Encryption Reform
View Full Document as PDF Despite Clinton Administration steps towards liberalizing American encryption policy, some members of the House of Representatives…
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Market-Based Chimera: Emission Trading Fails to Deliver
View Full Document as PDF The Clinton-Gore Administration is trying to persuade the American people that the Kyoto Protocol, the most ambitious…
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The Data Access Law: Decreasing Secret Science While Increasing Accountability
As the federal bureaucracy grows and Congress delegates more of its power to the agencies, the need for agency accountability increases. In October…