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# Spring 1981 

Vol. 1 No. 1 

Arthur B. Laffer on the Laffer curve, D.T. Armentano on the petroleum industry, Arthur A. Ekirch Jr. on the Sixteenth Amendment, Ronald Hamowy on the IRS and civil liberties, and more...

##### Articles 

#### [Government Exactions and Revenue Deficiencies ](/cato-journal/spring-1981/government-exactions-revenue-deficiencies)

By Arthur Laffer 

#### [A Comment on the Laffer Model ](/cato-journal/spring-1981/comment-laffer-model)

By Max Moszer 

#### [Limitations of the Laffer Curve as a Justification for Tax Cuts ](/cato-journal/spring-1981/limitations-laffer-curve-justification-tax-cuts)

By David R. Henderson 

#### [The Petroleum Industry: A Historical Study in Power ](/cato-journal/spring-1981/petroleum-industry-historical-study-power)

By D. T. Armentano 

#### [Establishing Property Rights in Energy: Efficient vs. Inefficient Processes ](/cato-journal/spring-1981/establishing-property-rights-energy-efficient-vs-inefficient-processes)

By Peter J. Hill 

#### [Competition and Monopoly in World Oil Markets: The Role of the International Oil Companies ](/cato-journal/spring-1981/competition-monopoly-world-oil-markets-role-international-oil-companies)

By Richard B. Mancke 

#### [Taxation in England during the Industrial Revolution ](/cato-journal/spring-1981/taxation-england-during-industrial-revolution)

By Ronald Max Hartwell 

#### [Comment on Taxation in England during the Industrial Revolution ](/cato-journal/spring-1981/comment-taxation-england-during-industrial-revolution)

By Donald N. McCloskey 

#### [The Sixteenth Amendment: The Historical Background ](/cato-journal/spring-1981/sixteenth-amendment-historical-background)

By Arthur A. Ekirch, Jr. 

#### [The Ratification of the Federal Income Tax Amendment ](/cato-journal/spring-1981/ratification-federal-income-tax-amendment)

By John D. Buenker 

#### [The IRS and Civil Liberties: Powers of Search and Seizure ](/cato-journal/spring-1981/irs-civil-liberties-powers-search-seizure)

By [Ronald Hamowy](https://www.cato.org/people/ronald-hamowy) 

#### [Taxes and Militarism ](/cato-journal/spring-1981/taxes-militarism)

By Lloyd J. Dumas 

#### [Bureaucracy, Entrepreneurship, and Natural Resources: Witless Policy and the Barrier Islands ](/cato-journal/spring-1981/bureaucracy-entrepreneurship-natural-resources-witless-policy-barrier)

By William J. Siffin 

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