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, 6 pp, 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, 7 pp, 425 Kb)

Law

Making Lawyers Complete Is the market for contingent fee-financed tort litigation competitive? by Lester Brickman (PDF, 7 pp, 317 Kb)

How Lawyers Compete Can the legal services market become more competitive? by Michael Abramowicz (PDF, 2 pp, 130 Kb)

Property

The Private Neighborhood Will homeowners associations lead to a revolution in local government? by Robert H. Nelson (PDF, 7 pp, 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, 6 pp, 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, 6 pp, 199 Kb)

Who Certifies Off-Label? FDA efficacy requirements may do more medical harm than good. by Daniel B. Klein and Alexander Tabarrok (PDF, 4 pp, 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, 3 pp, 230 Kb)

For the Record

A Second Look at Regulation's Cost (PDF 4 pp, 170 Kb)

Mercatus Reports

Financial Privacy Notices | FTC E-Commerce Studies (PDF, 3 pp, 96 Kb)
Commentary: A Regulated Day in the Life (PDF, 2 pp, 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, 4 pp, 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, 4 pp, 184 kb)

Final Word

Don't Tread on My... by Marni Soupcoff (PDF, 1 pp, 102 kb)