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Learning from the Past, Freeing up the Future: The Political Economy of Regulatory Change

  • By: Fred L. Smith, Jr.
  • 09/19/2014

Read the Full Paper Here This paper seeks to abstract some general rules from the experiences with regulatory policy in the US…

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MCOOL and the Politics of Country-of-Origin Labeling

  • By: Alexander Moens, Amos Vivancos Leon, Fred L. Smith, Jr.
  • 06/08/2012

The Mandatory Country-of-Origin Label (MCOOL) for beef and pork products was brought into force by the United States in 2008. It imposes uneven tracking, segregating,…

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Markets and the Environment: A Critical Reappraisal

  • By: Fred L. Smith, Jr.
  • 08/05/2011

The nature of the environmental problem perhaps is best addressed by reviewing the economic problem. The basic economic problem is scarcity. Demands are unlimited…

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A Free-Market Environmental Program

  • By: Fred L. Smith, Jr.
  • 08/03/2011

The Soviet Union should not adopt the U.S. approach to protecting the environment. The fact that the United States has a superior environment has far…

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Reining in America’s Regulatory Leviathan: America Gets a Second Chance

  • By: Fred L. Smith, Jr.
  • 01/18/2011

Liberate to Stimulate Index We at the Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI) have spent 26 years raising the saliency of regulations on our…

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A Solid Waste Estimation Procedure: Material Flows Approach

  • By: Fred L. Smith, Jr.
  • 12/03/2010

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