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# Fall 2021 

Vol. 44 No. 3 

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##### From the Cover 

### [What’s Behind the War on Big Tech? ](/regulation/fall-2021/whats-behind-war-big-tech)

By Thomas A. Lambert 

Rent seekers are trying to use government to hamper Google, Amazon, Apple, and others.

### [An Empirical Snapshot of the Gig Economy ](/regulation/fall-2021/empirical-snapshot-gig-economy)

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

Most gig workers already have health insurance and retirement benefits and are looking to augment other income.

### [‘ESG’ Disclosure and Securities Regulation ](/regulation/fall-2021/esg-disclosure-securities-regulation)

By Paul G. Mahoney and Julia D. Mahoney 

An SEC push for environmental, social, and governance disclosure would cater to Wall Street instead of Main Street.

### [The Threat of Externalities ](/regulation/fall-2021/threat-externalities)

By Pierre Lemieux 

The concept and its underlying theory have problems that policymakers often ignore.

##### Features 

#### [Easier Said than Done ](/regulation/fall-2021/easier-said-done)

By Andrew B. Ayres 

Will evolving groundwater rules in the West support markets?

#### [Big Tech’s Digital Robber Barons ](/regulation/fall-2021/big-techs-digital-robber-barons)

By Jonathan Klick 

Are these firms really harming us, or are they just successful?

##### Briefly Noted 

##### [Regulators Kept a Fish Treading Water for Years ](/regulation/fall-2021/regulators-kept-fish-treading-water-years)

By Henry I. Miller and Kathleen L. Hefferon 

##### In Review 

##### [Restoring the Bourgeois Deal ](/regulation/fall-2021/leave-me-alone-ill-make-you-rich)

By George C. Leef 

##### [Extending the Culture Wars ](/regulation/fall-2021/extending-culture-wars)

By [Todd Zywicki](https://www.cato.org/people/todd-zywicki) 

##### [The Future Field of Sowell Scholarship ](/regulation/fall-2021/future-field-sowell-scholarship)

By Art Carden 

##### [A Shackled Leviathan That Keeps Roaming and Growing ](/regulation/fall-2021/shackled-leviathan-keeps-roaming-growing)

By Pierre Lemieux 

##### [Where’s the Beef? ](/regulation/fall-2021/wheres-beef)

By David R. Henderson 

##### [The History of Money in Podcast-Sized Bites ](/regulation/fall-2021/history-money-podcast-sized-bites)

By Vern McKinley 

##### [Assessing a Century of Mortgage Market Interventions ](/regulation/fall-2021/assessing-century-mortgage-market-interventions)

By Vern McKinley 

##### [Where Are We on the Road to Serfdom? ](/regulation/fall-2021/where-are-we-road-serfdom)

By Pierre Lemieux 

##### Final Word 

##### [A Pandemic of Economic Illiteracy ](/regulation/fall-2021/pandemic-economic-illiteracy)

By A. Barton Hinkle 

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