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# September/​October 2018 

Vol. 40 No. 5 

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##### From the Cover 

### [The Tangled Mess of Occupational Licensing ](/policy-report/september/october-2018/tangled-mess-occupational-licensing)

By Angela C. Erickson 

##### Features 

#### [The Commerce Clause, Agency Lawmaking, and the Dusky Gopher Frog ](/policy-report/september/october-2018/commerce-clause-agency-lawmaking-dusky-gopher-frog)

By [Robert A. Levy](https://www.cato.org/people/robert-levy) 

#### [How Free Is Your State? ](/policy-report/september/october-2018/how-free-state)

The 2018 edition of *Freedom in the 50 States*

#### [Cato News Notes ](/policy-report/september/october-2018/cato-news-notes)

#### [Adoption and the Anti-discrimination Wars ](/policy-report/september/october-2018/adoption-anti-discrimination-wars)

#### [A Fine Romance? ](/policy-report/september/october-2018/fine-romance)

Why a train enthusiast lost faith in subsidized rail

#### [Should Inflation Be Less than Zero? ](/policy-report/september/october-2018/should-inflation-be-less-zero)

A new edition of a book that was “ahead of its time”

#### [Lessons from the Financial Crisis ](/policy-report/september/october-2018/lessons-financial-crisis)

What monetary policy can teach us 10 years after the crisis

#### [The Right to Keep and Bear Arms: 10 Years after *Heller*](/policy-report/september/october-2018/right-keep-bear-arms-10-years-after-heller)

Cato’s role in a historic Second Amendment victory — and what it means today

#### [Cato Studies ](/policy-report/september/october-2018/cato-studies)

#### [To Be Governed… ](/policy-report/september/october-2018/be-governed)

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