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Sam and Vicki Sebastiani are the third generation heirs to one of California's most noted and historic wine families, Sebastiani Vineyards. The winery was…

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Chesapeake Wildlife Heritage

By: Jonathan Tolman
06/01/1997

Full Document Available in PDF On a warm October day, the sun glistens on the still water.

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Antitrust and The Commons: Cooperation or Collusion?

By: Bruce Yandle
06/01/1997

Full Document Available in PDF People have long been aware that unbridled…

Antitrust

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CAFE’s “Smashing Success”: The Deadly Effects of Auto Fuel Economy Standards, Current & Proposed

By: Julie DeFalco
06/01/1997

Full Document Available in PDF…

Energy

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The Wood Duck

By: Brian Seasholes
06/01/1997

Full Document Available in PDF The wood duck has long occupied a special place in…

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Calmer Weather: The Spin on Greenhouse Hurricanes

By: Robert C. Balling, Jr.
05/01/1997

Full Document Available in PDF Somehow, the public has been convinced…

Energy and Environment

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The Yellowstone Affair: Environmental Protection, International Treaties, And National Sovereignty

By: Jeremy Rabkin
05/01/1997

Full Document Available in PDF Environmental regulation has…

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Swamped: How America Achieved No Net Loss

By: Jonathan Tolman
04/01/1997

Full Document Available in PDF Environmental policy makers routinely decry the…

Energy and Environment

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Environmental Audits: State Carrots Versus Federal Sticks In Environmental Enforcement

By: Ben Lieberman
03/01/1997

Full Document Available in PDF Environmental regulation has…

Energy and Environment

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Sudden Impact: The Collision Between The Air Bag Mandate And Ethics

By: Loren Lomasky
03/01/1997

Full Document Available in PDF Air bags…

Health and Safety

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ISO 14000: Envrionmental Regulation By Any Other Name?

By: Julian Morris
01/01/1997

Full Document Available in PDF Until recently, most environmental regulations…

Energy and Environment

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How To Reform Grazing Policy

By: Robert H. Nelson
12/01/1996

Full Document Available in PDF Property rights have been recognized since ancient times as an essential element of a well ordered society.

Energy and Environment

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The Kern River Preserve

12/01/1996

Full Document Available in PDF A small Valley, some fifteen miles long and a…

Energy and Environment

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Beyond The Communications Decency Act: Constitutional Lessons Of The Internet

By: Solveig Singleton
10/04/1996

Full Document Available Here On February 8, 1996, the Communications Decency Act was enacted into law. The law criminalizes the use of…

Free Speech

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Anti-Gambling Politics – Time to Reshuffle the Deck

By: Robert Detlefsen
10/01/1996

Full Document Available in PDF Legalized gambling in the United…

Consumer Freedom

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Cleaning Hands In Predation Cases: A Modest Proposal To Improve Predatory-Pricing Suits

By: Andrew N. Kleit
10/01/1996

Full Document Available in PDF Reasonable…

Business and Government

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Trashing Free Trade: The Basel Convention’s Impact

By: James M. Sheehan
10/01/1996

Executive Summary With the establishment of the World Trade Organization (WTO) in 1995, free trade should be on the rise. The WTO has been heralded…

Trade and International

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The Tragedy of the Commons Revisited: Politics vs. Private Property

By: Fred L. Smith, Jr.
10/01/1996

Full Document Available as PDF Executive Summary One of the most powerful metaphors of the environmental problem is Garrett Hardin’s…

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Ten Thousand Commandments: A Policymaker’s Snapshot of the Federal Regulatory State (1996 Edition)

By: Clyde Wayne Crews
09/01/1996

Full Document Available in PDF While we know rather precisely how much the federal…

Business and Government

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Cardiac and Cancer Specialists on the Need for FDA Reform

By: Sam Kazman
07/24/1996

Two National Polls Debunk The Notion That FDA Doesn't Need Fixing…

Health and Safety

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A National Survey of Attitudes on Environmental Policy

By: CEI Staff
07/01/1996

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Breaking The FDA’s Drug Approval Monopoly:

By: Michael Krauss
07/01/1996

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

Health and Safety

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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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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…

Business and Government

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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…

Business and Government

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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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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…

Business and Government

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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…

Business and Government

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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…

Business and Government

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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…