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# Spring 1993 

Vol. 16 No. 2 

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##### Features 

#### [Dark Fibers and Free Bandwith: The Future of Telecommunications ](/regulation/spring-1993/dark-fibers-free-bandwith-future-telecommunications)

By George Gilder 

#### [From the Network of Networks to the System of Systems: An End of History in Telecommunications Regulation? ](/regulation/spring-1993/network-networks-system-systems-end-history-telecommunications-regulation)

By Eli M. Noam 

#### [Telephones, Competition, and the Candice-Coated Monopoly ](/regulation/spring-1993/telephones-competition-candice-coated-monopoly)

By Peter Huber 

#### [Cable TV Regulation: The Episodes You Didn’t See on C‑SPAN ](/regulation/spring-1993/cable-tv-regulation-episodes-you-didnt-see-c-span)

By Thomas W. Hazlett 

#### [Moving Toward a Market for Spectrum ](/regulation/spring-1993/moving-toward-market-spectrum)

By Evan R. Kwerel and John R. Williams 

#### [Uncle Sam at teh Gas Pump: Causes and Consequences of Regulating Gasoline Distribution ](/regulation/spring-1993/uncle-sam-teh-gas-pump-causes-consequences-regulating-gasoline-distribution)

By Severin Borenstein and Richard Gilbert 

##### Letters 

##### [No Bias in U.S. Trade Laws ](/regulation/spring-1993/no-bias-us-trade-laws)

##### [Steel or No Steel, Administrative Protection is Still a Failure ](/regulation/spring-1993/steel-or-no-steel-administrative-protection-still-failure)

##### [Greenness of NAFTA Just an Illusion ](/regulation/spring-1993/greenness-nafta-just-illusion)

##### [NAFTA will Further Mexico’s Environmental Progess ](/regulation/spring-1993/nafta-will-further-mexicos-environmental-progess)

##### Currents 

##### [Overlooking Gompers ](/regulation/spring-1993/overlooking-gompers)

##### [NAFTA and Creative Destruction ](/regulation/spring-1993/nafta-creative-destruction)

##### [The Hazards of Regulating Hazardous Waste ](/regulation/spring-1993/hazards-regulating-hazardous-waste)

##### [Industrial Policy by any Other Name ](/regulation/spring-1993/industrial-policy-any-other-name)

##### Readings 

##### [Risk Managers: Smoke Gets in Their Eyes ](/regulation/spring-1993/risk-managers-smoke-gets-their-eyes)

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