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# May/​June 1979 

Vol. 3 No. 3 

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##### Viewpoint 

### [Fast and Loose in the Welfare State ](/regulation/may/june-1979/fast-loose-welfare-state)

By Charles Fried 

##### Features 

#### [For Effectiveness and Efficiency: S. 262 ](/regulation/may/june-1979/effectiveness-efficiency-s-262)

By Abe Ribicoff 

#### [A More Demanding Standard: The Brown-Bentsen Bills ](/regulation/may/june-1979/more-demanding-standard-brown-bentsen-bills)

By Clarence J. Brown 

#### [Reform as Totem: A Skeptical View ](/regulation/may/june-1979/reform-totem-skeptical-view)

By Ernest Gellhorn 

#### [Regulators and Religon: Caesar’s Revenge ](/regulation/may/june-1979/regulators-religon-caesars-revenge)

By Allan C. Carlson 

#### [An Irony of Electoral Reform ](/regulation/may/june-1979/irony-electoral-reform)

By Edwin M. Epstein 

#### [Neither a Mountain nor a Molehill ](/regulation/may/june-1979/neither-mountain-nor-molehill)

By Michael J. Malbin 

#### [Premerger Notification ](/regulation/may/june-1979/premerger-notification)

By Hugh Latimer 

#### [Antidumping Duties for Japanese TVs ](/regulation/may/june-1979/antidumping-duties-japanese-tvs)

By Warren F. Schwartz 

##### Letters 

##### [Critiques of Regulation ](/regulation/may/june-1979/critiques-regulation)

##### [Due Process ](/regulation/may/june-1979/due-process)

##### Perspectives 

##### [Generic Drug Equivalents: Opening Pandora’s Rx ](/regulation/may/june-1979/generic-drug-equivalents-opening-pandoras-rx)

##### [Curing Hospital Costs by Decree ](/regulation/may/june-1979/curing-hospital-costs-decree)

##### [New Tack for Antitrust ](/regulation/may/june-1979/new-tack-antitrust)

##### [What Happened to Bakke? ](/regulation/may/june-1979/what-happened-bakke)

##### [In Brief ](/regulation/may/june-1979/brief)

##### [Untying Cable Knots ](/regulation/may/june-1979/untying-cable-knots)

##### Readings 

##### [On Federal Corporate Chartering ](/regulation/may/june-1979/federal-corporate-chartering)

##### [Federal Regulation of State and Local Governments ](/regulation/may/june-1979/federal-regulation-state-local-governments)

##### [Regulation and the Polls ](/regulation/may/june-1979/regulation-polls)

##### [Ranking Energy Sources by Risk ](/regulation/may/june-1979/ranking-energy-sources-risk)

##### [NAS Reports on Saccharin ](/regulation/may/june-1979/nas-reports-saccharin)

##### [Regulation in the Supreme Court ](/regulation/may/june-1979/regulation-supreme-court)

##### [Costs of Air Pollution ](/regulation/may/june-1979/costs-air-pollution)

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