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# Fall 2022 

Vol. 45 No. 3 

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##### From the Cover 

### [Tax Holidays, Feebates, Price Gouging Laws? ](/regulation/fall-2022/tax-holidays-feebates-price-gouging-laws)

By Steve G. Parsons 

Are proposals for gas price relief good policy?

##### Evaluating the SEC’s Proposed Carbon Emissions Disclosure Rule 

#### [Introduction ](/regulation/fall-2022/introduction)

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

#### [Costs Beyond the Disclosing Firms ](/regulation/fall-2022/costs-beyond-disclosing-firms)

By Matthew Winden 

#### [The Costs of (Greater) Complexity ](/regulation/fall-2022/costs-greater-complexity)

By Indraneel Chakraborty 

#### [Is the Mandate Necessary? ](/regulation/fall-2022/mandate-necessary)

By Robert Jennings 

#### [Keep Politics Out of Accounting Standard-Setting ](/regulation/fall-2022/keep-politics-out-accounting-standard-setting)

By S.P. Kothari and Craig M. Lewis 

##### Features 

#### [Nations Aren’t Households ](/regulation/fall-2022/nations-arent-households)

By Jamie Whyte 

Why should government spend tax money on private goods?

#### [Regulatory Activity in the Biden Administration ](/regulation/fall-2022/regulatory-activity-biden-administration)

By Keith B. Belton 

Compared to Obama, Biden is issuing more impactful regulations with less OMB oversight.

#### [Biden’s Protectionism: Trumpism with a Human Face ](/regulation/fall-2022/bidens-protectionism-trumpism-human-face)

By Pierre Lemieux 

The president’s “worker-centric” trade policy amounts to special-interest favoritism.

#### [The Ideological Divide on Gun Regulation ](/regulation/fall-2022/ideological-divide-gun-regulation)

By W. Kip Viscusi 

Polling data help explain why federal lawmakers could agree on compromise legislation to combat mass shootings.

#### [Transgender Athletes, Fair Competition, and Public Policy ](/regulation/fall-2022/transgender-athletes-fair-competition-public-policy)

By Dennis L. Weisman 

Can policymakers support cisgender-transgender competition and still be champions of women?

#### [Would a Carbon Tax Rejuvenate Nuclear Energy? ](/regulation/fall-2022/would-carbon-tax-rejuvenate-nuclear-energy)

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

Nuclear power emits virtually no greenhouse gases or air pollution, but it has high capital costs and potential risk.

##### In Review 

##### [ *Arbitrary Lines*](/regulation/fall-2022/case-abolishing-zoning)

By David R. Henderson 

##### [ *Price War$*](/regulation/fall-2022/prices-are-hell)

By Phil R. Murray 

##### [ *The Great Covid Panic*](/regulation/fall-2022/responses-pandemic)

By Art Carden 

##### [ *Visible Hand*](/regulation/fall-2022/overcoming-anti-marketism)

By George C. Leef 

##### [ *The End of History and The Last Man* and *Liberalism and Its Discontents*](/regulation/fall-2022/fukuyama-interesting-books-some-baggage)

By Pierre Lemieux 

##### [ *Towards an Economics of Natural Equals*](/regulation/fall-2022/story-virginia-school)

By Art Carden 

##### [ *Science in an Age of Unreason*](/regulation/fall-2022/ending-sciences-retreat)

By George C. Leef 

##### [ *The Age of the Strongman*](/regulation/fall-2022/easy-path-strongman-be)

By Pierre Lemieux 

##### [ *Seven Deadly Economic Sins*](/regulation/fall-2022/sin-no-more)

By Art Carden 

##### Final Word 

##### [By Any Other Name ](/regulation/fall-2022/any-other-name)

By A. Barton Hinkle 

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