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# Jul/​Aug 1981 

Vol. 5 No. 4 

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##### Viewpoint 

### [No Growth — No Vacancies ](/regulation/jul/aug-1981/no-growth-no-vacancies)

By Tom Bethell 

##### Features 

#### [Regulatory Oversight Wins in Court ](/regulation/jul/aug-1981/regulatory-oversight-wins-court)

By Michael Sohn and Robert E. Litan 

#### [Back to Basics: Making Law without Making Rules ](/regulation/jul/aug-1981/back-basics-making-law-without-making-rules)

By Antonin Scalia 

#### [Wasting Our National Forests: How to Get Less Timber and Less Wilderness at the Same Time ](/regulation/jul/aug-1981/wasting-our-national-forests-how-get-less-timber-less-wilderness-same-time)

By Thomas M. Lenard 

#### [Protection for Petroleum Refiners? ](/regulation/jul/aug-1981/protection-petroleum-refiners)

By Edward J. Mitchell 

#### [The Cost of Getting Nowhere at the FTC ](/regulation/jul/aug-1981/cost-getting-nowhere-ftc)

By Bruce Yandle 

##### Letters 

##### [Highway Congestion Pricing ](/regulation/jul/aug-1981/highway-congestion-pricing)

##### [Ozone Depletion ](/regulation/jul/aug-1981/ozone-depletion)

##### Perspectives 

##### [The (Cotton) Dust Settles ](/regulation/jul/aug-1981/cotton-dust-settles)

##### [Lifting Burdens at the Margin ](/regulation/jul/aug-1981/lifting-burdens-margin)

##### [Regulation and the 1982 Budget ](/regulation/jul/aug-1981/regulation-1982-budget)

##### [Overseas Ethics, Four Years Later ](/regulation/jul/aug-1981/overseas-ethics-four-years-later)

##### [In Brief ](/regulation/jul/aug-1981/brief)

##### Readings 

##### [The International Regulators ](/regulation/jul/aug-1981/international-regulators)

##### [Natural Gas Deregulation: The Costs of Gradualism ](/regulation/jul/aug-1981/natural-gas-deregulation-costs-gradualism)

##### [When the Public Servant Gets Sued ](/regulation/jul/aug-1981/when-public-servant-gets-sued)

##### [A Policy Built on Shifting Sands? ](/regulation/jul/aug-1981/policy-built-shifting-sands)

##### [Rent Control: From Amid the Rubble ](/regulation/jul/aug-1981/rent-control-amid-rubble)

##### [Regulation and Mine Safety: The Statistical Link ](/regulation/jul/aug-1981/regulation-mine-safety-statistical-link)

##### [Environmental Hazards and the Sensitive Individual ](/regulation/jul/aug-1981/environmental-hazards-sensitive-individual)

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