Vol. 23, No. 3, Fall 2000

Cover Story

Risk

Should You Be Allowed to Use Your Cellular Phone while Driving? by Robert W. Hahn, Paul C. Tetlock, and Jason K. Burnett (PDF, 124 kb)

Features

Environment

The Way of Warming by Patrick J. Michaels, Paul C. Knappenberger, and Robert E. Davis (PDF, 816 kb)

A Fuel and Your Money: EPA’s New Tier 2 Standards by Susan E. Dudley (PDF, 912 kb)

EPA Pats Itself on the Back by Randall Lutter and Richard B. Belzer (PDF, 92 kb)

Securities

Financial Markets as Information Monopolies? by Sharon Brown-Hruska and Jerry Ellig (PDF, 99 Kb)

Telecommunications

Economic and Political Consequences of the 1996 Telecommunications Act by Thomas W. Hazlett (PDF, 126 Kb)

Banking and Credit

Should CRA Stand for "Community Redundancy Act" by Jeffery W. Gunther (PDF, 80 Kb)

Energy

Can Nonprofit Transmission Be Independent? by Robert J. Michaels (PDF, 92 Kb)

For the Record

An Update on E-Z Trial | Revisiting "Market Failure" | (PDF, 48 Kb)

Briefly Noted

The Chevron Doctrine: Running out of Gas | High Gasoline Prices and the Unfair Sales Act in Wisconsin | What If Everyone Were a Policy Analyst? | (PDF)

In Review

Heaven’s Door: Immigration Policy and the American Economy by George J. Borjas; Reviewed by Ronald Bird | Power Loss: The Origins of Deregulation and Restructuring in the American Electric Utility System by Richard F. Hirsh | Unlocking The Benefits Of Restructuring: A Blueprint for Transmission by Shimon Awerbuch, Leonard Hyman, and Andrew Vesey | Designing Competitive Electricity Markets Hung-po Chao and Hillard Huntington, editors; All Reviewed by Peter Van Doren