Regulation Magazine Vol. 24. No. 1

Volume 24, Number 1
Editor
Peter VanDoren

Managing Editor
Thomas A. Firey

Design and Layout
David Herbick Design

Circulation Manager
Alan Peterson

Editorial Advisory Board

Chairman
William A. Niskanen

David Bradford
James S. Bus
Daniel M. Byrd, III
Philip Cole
William A. Fischel
H.E. Frech, III
Scott E. Harrington
James J. Heckman
Joseph P. Kalt
John R. Lott, Jr.
Michael C. Munger
Robert H. Nelson
Sam Peltzman
George L. Priest
Paul H. Rubin
Jane S. Shaw
S. Fred Singer
Fred Smith Jr.
V. Kerry Smith
Pablo T. Spiller
Richard L. Stroup
W. Kip Viscusi
Richard Wilson
Clifford Winston
Benjamin Zycher

Publisher
Edward H. Crane

Vol. 24, No. 1, 2001

For the Record

Cancer and the Environment (PDF, 1 pp, 52 kb)

Mercatus Reports

Arsenic in Drinking Water | Air Conditioners and Heat Pumps | Truck Emissions | Lead Release | Roadless Areas | Clothes Washers | Medical Privacy | Blacklisting | Ergonomics | Patient's Bill of Rights (PDF, 6 pp, 261 kb)
Commentary: Reversing Regulations (PDF, 1 pp, 95 kb)
Susan E. Dudley

Briefly Noted

Graduate Students Unite? | Obstructing Olestra | Consumers in the Wringer (PDF, 6 pp, 502 kb)

Agriculture

The Bad Harvest (PDF, 6 pp, 354 kb)
Jerry R. Skees

Risk | Cover Story

The Truth About Light Trucks (PDF, 6 pp, 200 kb)
Douglas Coate and James VanderHoff

Environment

The Trouble With Implementing TMDLs (PDF, 5 pp, 370 kb)
Kurt Stephenson and Leonard Shabman
The Beneficiaries of Clean Air Act Legislation (PDF, 5 pp,
675 kb)
Matthew E. Kahn

Law

Privatizing Commercial Law (PDF, 6 pp, 104 kb)
Gillian K. Hadfield

Health & Medicine

Seeing Through the Snow (PDF, 4 pp, 401 kb)
John R. Graham
The Problems of Price Controls (PDF, 5 pp, 1,337 kb)
Fiona M. Scott Morton

In Review

American's Health by Henry I. Miller | The Challenge of Global Capitalism by Robert Gilpin | Are Predatory Commitments Credible by John R. Lott, Jr. | A Burning Issue by Robert H. Nelson | A Vision for the U.S. Forest Service edited by Roger A. Sedjo (PDF, 7 pp, 351 kb)

The Final Word

California's Dim Bulbs (PDF, 1 pp, 51 kb)
P. J. O'Rourke

Regulation was first published in July 1977 "because the extension of regulation is piecemeal, the sources and targets diverse, the language complex and often opaque, and the volume overwhelming." Regulation is devoted to analyzing the implications of government regulatory policy and the effects on our public and private endeavors.

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