Vol. 27, No. 2, Summer 2004

Cover Story

Who Should Control the Internet?

Assigning Broadband Rights Could private control of access and standards lead to a balkanization of the Internet? by Bruce M. Owen (PDF, 325 Kb)

Features

Environment

The EPA’s Risky Reasoning Recent revisions to the air quality standards show a worrisome misuse of science. by Cary Coglianese and Gary E. Marchant (PDF, 425 Kb)

Law

Making Lawyers Complete Is the market for contingent fee-financed tort litigation competitive? by Lester Brickman (PDF, 317 Kb)

How Lawyers Compete Can the legal services market become more competitive? by Michael Abramowicz (PDF, 130 Kb)

Property

The Private Neighborhood Will homeowners associations lead to a revolution in local government? by Robert H. Nelson (PDF, 234 Kb)

Revolution or Evolution? Do homeowners association members benefit from — or even want — the dissolution of municipalities and local zoning? by William A. Fischel (PDF, 270 Kb)

Health & Medicine

Is There a Biomedical Anticommons? Patent holders have a strong interest in profiting from their patents. by Richard A. Epstein and Bruce N. Kuhlik (PDF, 199 Kb)

Who Certifies Off-Label? FDA efficacy requirements may do more medical harm than good. by Daniel B. Klein and Alexander Tabarrok (PDF, 156 Kb)

Breaking the FDA Monopoly With dual-tracking, patients can have early access to potential miracle drugs while the FDA maintains its testing regimen. by Bartley J. Madden (PDF, 230 Kb)

For the Record

A Second Look at Regulation's Cost (PDF, 170 Kb)

Mercatus Reports

Financial Privacy Notices | FTC E-Commerce Studies (PDF, 96 Kb)
Commentary: A Regulated Day in the Life (PDF, 145 Kb)

Briefly Noted

The Biggest Pest of All, by Henry I. Miller | Reactionary Regulation, by Richard F. O'Donnell and Nancy M. Lemein (PDF, 193 Kb)

In Review

Blockbusters and Trade Wars: Popular Culture in a Globalized World by Peter S. Grant and Chris Wood | Six Modern Plagues and How We Are Causing Them by Mark Jerome Walters | The End of a Natural Monopoly: Regulation and Competition in the Electric Power Industry edited by Peter Z. Grossman and Daniel H. Cole (PDF, 184 kb)

Final Word

Don't Tread on My... by Marni Soupcoff (PDF, 102 kb)