Vol. 28, No. 3, Fall 2005

Cover Story

Radical Operation: Trying to Save Lives with Organ Markets

Directions for the Disposition of My (and Your) Vital Organs Now, there is an indisputable cost for continuing the prohibition on organ markets. By Lloyd R. Cohen (PDF, 426K )

Features

Property

What Are Private Governments Worth? Do homeowners associations raise property values? By Amanda Agan and Alexander Tabarrok (PDF, 209K )

Theory

The New Challenge to Cost-Benefit Analysis How sound is the opponents’ empirical case? By Alan Carlin (PDF, 206K )

Health & Medicine

Defensive Medicine and Disappearing Doctors? Evidence suggests that the malpractice crisis has more complex effects than are commonly assumed. By Katherine Baicker and Amitabh Chandra (PDF, 387K )

Telecommunications & Technology

Costs and Consequences Despite reforms, telecom regulations are still costing consumers billions of dollars. By Jerry Ellig (PDF, 98K )

Life Support for ISPs? Independent ISPs are asking for government protection in the broadband era. By Robert W. Crandall and Hal J. Singer (PDF, 295K )

Mercatus Reports

Urban Empowerment Zones | GSE Reform | Commentary: The Regulators’ Growing Budget (PDF, 316K )

Briefly Noted

Replacing Stovepipe Regulation, by Randolph J. May | REACH Exceeding Its Grasp?, by Angela Logomasini and Henry I. Miller (PDF, 363K)

In Review

The PayPal Wars, by Eric M. Jackson | Paying with Plastic, by David Evans and Richard Schmalensee (PDF, 242K )

The Final Word

Tee’d Off By Marni Soupcoff (PDF, 64K)

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