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A Solid Waste Estimation Procedure: Material Flows Approach

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

Energy and Environment

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Agricultural Biotechnology Regulation

  • By: Gregory Conko
  • 11/19/2010

Full Document Available in PDF For conventionally bred plants, regulators rely on plant breeders to…

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Agricultural Biotechnology Overview

  • By: Gregory Conko
  • 11/19/2010

Full Document Available in PDF Every year, millions of people worldwide die from starvation and…

Energy and Environment

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Business Must Fight for Economic Freedom

  • By: Fred L. Smith, Jr.
  • 11/04/2010

Business Must Fight for Economic Freedom Fred L. Smith, Jr. President, Competitive Enterprise Institute Written Remarks For the…

Banking and Finance

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The 2010 Union Pension Bailout Bills

  • By: F. Vincent Vernuccio
  • 11/04/2010

Get ready to give some of your hard-earned cash – again – to the cronies of Congress who are pushing for yet another bailout. Two…

Business and Government

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Reforming Michigan’s Auto Insurance Industry

  • By: D. Joseph Olson, Gary Wolfram
  • 10/21/2010

Michigan auto insurance premiums are among the highest in the nation. Rather than attempting to regulate insurance company and individual behavior, Michigan legislators would much…

Insurance

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Persuasion and Issue-Framing

  • By: Fred L. Smith, Jr.
  • 09/29/2010

Fred Smith's chapter in "Creating Your Path to a Policy Career."  Free-market advocates often seek to convert others to our way of thinking with…

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Free Enterprise Fund v. PCAOB: Narrow Separation-of-Powers Ruling Illustrates That the Supreme Court Is Not ‘‘Pro-Business’’

  • By: Hans Bader
  • 09/29/2010

Full Document Available in PDF Chief Justice John Roberts has often been depicted as an advocate of narrow rulings and a judicial philosophy…

Banking and Finance

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Are Corporations Suicidal?

  • By: Fred L. Smith, Jr.
  • 09/27/2010

Full Document Available in PDF…

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Al Gore’s Crony Capitalist Crusade

  • By: F. Vincent Vernuccio
  • 09/24/2010

Full Document Available in PDF Al Gore’s crusade for carbon emission controls is poised to enrich those with a vested…

Climate

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Union Pensions in Crisis

  • By: F. Vincent Vernuccio
  • 07/20/2010

Full Document Available in PDF Union pensions are in trouble, and financial watchdogs such as Moody’s…

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Restoring the Private Property-Insurance Market to Reduce Florida’s Risk of Financial Insolvency

  • By: Eli Lehrer
  • 09/10/2009

Full Document Available in PDF   Foreward by Robert F. Sanchez, Policy Director, The James Madison Institute   As Florida faces a…

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Restoring the Private Property-Insurance Market To Reduce Florida’s Risk of Financial Insolvency

  • By: Eli Lehrer
  • 03/22/2009

Eli Lehrer examines why Florida could very well become financially insolvent.

Insurance

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North Carolina’s Unfair Auto Insurance System

  • By: Eli Lehrer
  • 07/29/2008

North Carolina’s government-controlled auto insurance subsidizes risky and dangerous drivers by overcharging good driver…

Insurance

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California’s Energy Policy

  • By: Thomas Tanton
  • 04/01/2008

Full Document Available in PDF Global warming policies championed by former Vice President…

Climate

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Property and Casualty Insurance Report Card

  • By: Eli Lehrer
  • 03/14/2008

Full Document Available in PDF According to Barron’s, the U.S. dominates the…

Insurance

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Ecuador Mining News’ Investor Survey: A Mixed Bag

  • By: Silvia Santacruz
  • 03/13/2008

The EMN Investor Concerns Survey, an initiative of this publication, reveals that half of respondents want to keep their mining stocks in firms operating in…

Energy and Environment

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First Steps toward Restoring Florida’s Insurance Market

  • By: Eli Lehrer
  • 03/01/2008

Full Document Available in PDF As Florida’s Legislature proceeds with its…

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Restoring Florida’s Insurance Market

  • By: Eli Lehrer
  • 02/06/2008

By the end of the 1990s, Florida’s property insurance market had largely recovered from the effects of 1992’s Hurricane Andrew, one of the costliest storms…

Insurance

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Will Repealing the Federal Insurance Antitrust Exemption Help Or Hurt Consumers?

  • By: Lawrence H. Mirel
  • 06/07/2007

Full Document Available in PDF If…

Insurance

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Global Warming: What Should Texas Do?

  • By: Iain Murray
  • 04/01/2007

As Texas electricity prices have climbed alongside natural gas prices, how to achieve affordable yet reliable energy has become a highly debated topic. The market…

Climate

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Al Gore’s Science Fiction

  • By: Marlo Lewis, Jr.
  • 03/16/2007

Click on each title below to download the full document…

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Al Gore’s Science Fiction: A Skeptic’s Guide to An Inconvenient Truth

  • By: Marlo Lewis, Jr.
  • 03/16/2007

Full Document Available in PDF…

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This Liberal Congress Went to Market: a Bipartisan Policy Agenda for the 110th Congress

  • By: CEI Staff
  • 01/10/2007

DO…

Antitrust

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Inconvenient Truths for Al Gore – Episode 1: Pollution

  • By: Marlo Lewis, Jr.
  • 11/20/2006

“We have vastly increased the amount of carbon dioxide—the most important of the so-called greenhouse gases.” (AIT, 25) Hold on a minute…

Climate

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Inconvenient Truths for Al Gore – Episode 2: Hurricane Katrina

  • By: Marlo Lewis, Jr.
  • 11/20/2006

“Textbooks had to be re-written in 2004. They used to say, ‘It’s impossible to have hurricanes in the South Atlantic.’ But that year, for…

Climate

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Inconvenient Truths for Al Gore – Episode 3: Warming Rate

  • By: Marlo Lewis, Jr.
  • 11/20/2006

“And in recent years the rate of increase has been accelerating." (AIT, 72) That’s just plain wrong. Over the last…

Climate

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Inconvenient Truths for Al Gore – Episode 4: Moulins

  • By: Marlo Lewis, Jr.
  • 11/20/2006

"When the [melt-]water reaches the bottom of the ice, it lubricates the surface of the bedrock and destabilizes the ice mass, raising fears that…

Climate

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An Assessment of Kyoto and Emerging Issues for the 12th Conference of the Parties

  • By: Christopher C. Horner
  • 11/13/2006

Full Document Available in PDF…

Climate

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A Skeptic’s Guide to An Inconvenient Truth

  • By: Marlo Lewis, Jr.
  • 08/21/2006

Executive Summary An Inconvenient Truth (AIT), Vice President Al Gore’s book on “The planetary emergency of global warming and what can be…

Climate

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Prometheus or Pandora – Addressing the Biotechnology Issue

  • By: Fred L. Smith, Jr.
  • 08/03/2006

Biotechnology, the newest way in which man seeks to tease from nature her secrets so as to improve his condition, is under intense scrutiny today.

Energy and Environment

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Public Comment Regarding Proposed Risk Assessment Bulletin

  • By: Angela Logomasini
  • 06/23/2006

June 15, 2006 Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs Office of Management and Budget 727 17th Street, N.W. New Executive Office Building, Room 10201 Washington,…

Energy and Environment

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CEI to FactCheck.Org: Re-Check Your Facts

  • By: Marlo Lewis, Jr.
  • 05/31/2006

  Earlier this week, FactCheck.Org published a critique of the Competitive Enterprise Institute’s (CEI’s) global warming ads. In this press release, CEI responds…

Climate

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Global Warming FAQ: What Every Citizen Needs to Know About Global Warming

  • By: Iain Murray
  • 05/16/2006

Overview. Alarm over the prospect of the Earth warming is not warranted by the agreed science or economics of the issue. Global warming is happening…

Antitrust

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Stay Cool; Stay Very Cool: A Commentary on Time’s “Special Report” on Global Warming

  • By: Marlo Lewis, Jr.
  • 04/26/2006

The cover of Time magazine’s April 3, 2006 issue tells readers to “be very worried” about climate change. The issue features a “special report” on…

Business and Government

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Antitrust Skeptic’s Bibliography

  • By: Clyde Wayne Crews
  • 04/13/2006

For more than two decades, the willingness of policy makers to rethink the presumption that economic regulation automatically benefits consumers has driven the deregulation of…

Antitrust

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An Assessment of Montreal COP/MOP 1

  • By: Christopher C. Horner
  • 01/30/2006

Full Document Available in PDF The December 2005 Montreal “COP-MOP” Kyoto…

Business and Government

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MSA Opposition Brief

  • By: CEI Staff
  • 12/28/2005

Full Document Available in PDF…

Business and Government

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Ten Thousand Commandments

  • By: Clyde Wayne Crews
  • 06/30/2005

Full Study Available in pdf format Executive Summary In the fiscal…

Business and Government

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The Viability of Municipal Wi-Fi Networks

  • By: Braden Cox
  • 02/01/2005

Full Document Available in PDF Ownership of broadband networks by municipalities,…

Regulatory Reform

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Comments on New Jersey Rule

  • By: Marlo Lewis, Jr.
  • 01/18/2005

Full Document Available in PDF Dear Ms. Previte: On behalf of the…

Climate

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Threats to Competitiveness in a Political Environment

  • By: Clyde Wayne Crews
  • 12/01/2004

Full Document Available in PDF This essay may seem depressing, but…

Antitrust

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1984-2004: CEI’s 20 Year Report

  • By: CEI Staff
  • 11/10/2004

Full Document Available in PDF A Message from the President CEI is…

Antitrust

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The Power of Positive Drinking: Are Alcoholic Beverage Health Claims Constitutionally Protected

  • By: Ben Lieberman
  • 11/10/2003

Full Document Available in PDF Food and…

Free Speech

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Option-Wars

  • By: James V. DeLong
  • 01/01/2003

Full Document Available in PDF Suppose that, a year ago, an investor dialed up his local Psychic…

Business and Government

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Does the Bush Administration Have Legal Authority to Award Regulatory Credits for Greenhouse Gas Reductions?

  • By: Marlo Lewis, Jr.
  • 11/18/2002

Full Document Available in PDF This paper examines the Electric Power Industry Climate Initiative’s (EPICI’s) attempted rebuttal of the Natural Resources…

Business and Government

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How to Drive Competition in a “Deregulated” Market

  • By: Fred L. Smith, Jr.
  • 10/29/2002

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Regulatory Reform

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Earth Report 2000: The State of the World’s Fisheries

  • By: Michael De Alessi
  • 11/21/2000

Full Document Available in PDF…

Energy and Environment

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Electricity Reform in Colorado

  • By: Clyde Wayne Crews
  • 01/02/1999

Full Document Available in PDF Consumers in Colorado pay prices for electricity that are among the lowest in the country. Therefore, indeed they…

Business and Government

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Electric Avenues: Why “Open Access” Can’t Compete

  • By: Clyde Wayne Crews
  • 04/13/1998

Full Document Available in PDF The regulation of electricity markets…

Antitrust

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