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In the latest issue of Regulation magazine, M. Todd Henderson reviews last year’s brouhaha over health insurance and birth control. According to Henderson, lost in the firestorm about religion and feminism were larger lessons about health care policy and regulation. Also in this issue, Cato scholar Richard L. Gordon argues that new federal efforts to cut emissions are the result of longstanding legal and judicial mandates, not a sudden Obama administration push.
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Contrary to countless tales of its demise, U.S. manufacturing has always been strong relative to its own past and relative to other countries’ manufacturing sectors.
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The Cato Institute tops a new measure of think tank performance in the United States, according to a recent report. Cato bested all other U.S. think tanks in the main category of “Aggregate Profile per Dollar Spent.” “I’m grateful to the Center for Global Development for showing that Cato gives its sponsors something I wish government gave more of to taxpayers: bang for the buck,” said Cato CEO John Allison.
Peter Van Doren is editor of the quarterly journal Regulation and an expert in the regulation of housing, land, energy, the environment, transportation, and labor. He has taught at the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs (Princeton University), the School of Organization and Management (Yale University), and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. From 1987 to 1988 he was the postdoctoral fellow in political economy at Carnegie Mellon University. His writing has been published in the Wall Street Journal, the Washington Post, Journal of Commerce, and the New York Post. Van Doren has also appeared on CNN, CNBC, Fox News Channel, and Voice of America. He received his bachelor’s degree from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and his master’s degree and doctorate from Yale University.
National Review. February 25, 2013.
Is Clean Energy an Impossible Dream?
Huffington Post. February 1, 2013.
Scoring Romney & Obama’s Disappointing Energy Debate
Forbes.com. October 19, 2012.
January 6, 2010.
‘Cash for Clunkers’ Is a Lemon
August 10, 2009.
Regulation Author Testifies at a Congressional Hearing
January 31, 2007.
Working Paper No. 10. October 11, 2012.
Would a Stricter Fed Policy and Financial Regulation Have Averted the Financial Crisis?
Policy Analysis No. 648. October 8, 2009.
Don’t Increase Federal Gasoline Taxes—Abolish Them
Policy Analysis No. 598. August 7, 2007.
The Georgetown Journal of Law & Public Policy. Vol. 6. No. 2. Summer 2008.
The Italian Journal of Geopolitics. November 22, 2007.
The Milken Institute Review. Winter 2007.
Regulation. Spring 2013.
Regulation. Winter 2012-2013.
Regulation. Fall 2012.
The Right Road for America: Top-Down Transportation Planning vs. Customer-Driven Mobility
September 15, 2009. Policy Forum.
December 10, 2007. Capitol Hill Briefing.
May 30, 2006. Capitol Hill Briefing.
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