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# Fall 2011 

Vol. 34 No. 3 

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##### From the Cover 

### [Mandatory Long-Term Compensation in the Banking System — and Beyond? ](/regulation/fall-2011/mandatory-long-term-compensation-banking-system-beyond)

By James Spindler 

“Reforms” of executive pay may not yield results much different from current practices. 

### [Obama, Ryan, and the Future of Regulatory Reform ](/regulation/fall-2011/obama-ryan-future-regulatory-reform)

By [Ike Brannon](https://www.cato.org/people/ike-brannon) and Sam Batkins 

An “upstream” approach to reform would reassert congressional authority, saving jobs and lowering compliance costs. 

### [What Should We Do about Social Security Disability Appeals? ](/regulation/fall-2011/what-should-we-do-about-social-security-disability-appeals)

By Richard J. Pierce, Jr. 

Administrative law judges, overruling SSA rejections of disability claims, contribute heavily to federal spending. 

##### Features 

#### [The Standard Environmental Narrative ](/regulation/fall-2011/standard-environmental-narrative)

By William L. Anderson and Patrick Moffitt 

The Barnegat Bay saga exemplifies the politicization of environmental science. 

#### [Dynamic Pricing and Its Discontents ](/regulation/fall-2011/dynamic-pricing-its-discontents)

By Ahmad Faruqui and Jennifer Palmer 

Empirical data show dynamic pricing of electricity would benefit consumers, including the poor. 

#### [Balancing the ‘Zoning Budget’ ](/regulation/fall-2011/balancing-zoning-budget)

By David Schleicher and Roderick M. Hills Jr. 

Local governments need to consider the long-term effects of their land-use decisions.

##### Briefly Noted 

##### [Regulatory Monsters ](/regulation/fall-2011/regulatory-monsters)

By Richard A. Williams and Sherzod Abdukadirov 

##### [Summer 2011: Hot Air in Washington ](/regulation/fall-2011/summer-2011-hot-air-washington)

By [Patrick J. Michaels](https://www.cato.org/people/patrick-michaels) 

##### [When Are Trading Programs Really Market-Like? ](/regulation/fall-2011/when-are-trading-programs-really-market)

By Leonard Shabman 

##### In Review 

##### [*Most*of the Devils Are Here](/regulation/fall-2011/book-review-all-devils-are-here-hidden-history-financial-crisis)

By David R. Henderson 

##### [Clearing Up the Murkiness ](/regulation/fall-2011/book-review-fair-trade-without-froth-dispassionate-economic-analysis-fair-trade)

By George C. Leef 

##### [Strained Insight ](/regulation/fall-2011/book-review-accelerating-energy-innovation-insights-multiple-sectors)

By [Richard L. Gordon](https://www.cato.org/people/richard-gordon) 

##### [A Fumbled Handbook ](/regulation/fall-2011/book-review-oxford-handbook-regulation)

By [Richard L. Gordon](https://www.cato.org/people/richard-gordon) 

##### [No Big Deal ](/regulation/fall-2011/book-review-peddling-protectionism-smoot-hawley-great-depression)

By David R. Henderson 

##### [Working Papers ](/regulation/fall-2011/working-papers)

By [Peter Van Doren](https://www.cato.org/people/peter-van-doren) 

##### Final Word 

##### [Get the Lead Out (of Sight) ](/regulation/fall-2011/get-lead-out-sight)

By Tim Rowland 

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