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# Sept/​Dec 1984 

Vol. 8 No. 5 

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##### Features 

#### [The *I‑Ching* of Acid Rain ](/regulation/sept/dec-1984/i-ching-acid-rain)

By Peter Huber 

#### [An Acid Test For Congress ](/regulation/sept/dec-1984/acid-test-congress)

By Robert W. Crandall 

#### [Regulating Rackets ](/regulation/sept/dec-1984/regulating-rackets)

By Peter Reuter 

#### [Exploitation in the Jim Crow South: The Market or the Law? ](/regulation/sept/dec-1984/exploitation-jim-crow-south-market-or-law)

By Jennifer Roback 

#### [The Rise and Fall of Bus Regulation ](/regulation/sept/dec-1984/rise-fall-bus-regulation)

By Elizabeth A. Pinkston 

#### [Phosphates and the Environmental Free Lunch ](/regulation/sept/dec-1984/phosphates-environmental-free-lunch)

##### Letters 

##### [The Adams Family of Lawsuits ](/regulation/sept/dec-1984/adams-family-lawsuits)

##### [Taxi Reform at the FTC ](/regulation/sept/dec-1984/taxi-reform-ftc)

##### Perspectives 

##### [“Heavy Landing” for Canadair: A Tale of Industrial Policy ](/regulation/sept/dec-1984/heavy-landing-canadair-tale-industrial-policy)

##### [Can Regulation Sweeten the Automotive Lemon? ](/regulation/sept/dec-1984/can-regulation-sweeten-automotive-lemon)

##### [Eminently Domineering ](/regulation/sept/dec-1984/eminently-domineering)

##### [Education Reform and Its Costs ](/regulation/sept/dec-1984/education-reform-its-costs)

##### [In Brief ](/regulation/sept/dec-1984/brief)

##### Readings 

##### [When Government Speaks: Politics, Law, and Government Expression in America ](/regulation/sept/dec-1984/when-government-speaks-politics-law-government-expression-america)

##### [The Making of Federal Coal Policy ](/regulation/sept/dec-1984/making-federal-coal-policy)

##### [Regulatory Federalism: Policy, Process, Impact and Reform ](/regulation/sept/dec-1984/regulatory-federalism-policy-process-impact-reform)

##### [Deregulation and the Theory of Contestable Markets ](/regulation/sept/dec-1984/deregulation-theory-contestable-markets)

##### [A Theory of Expropriation and Deviations from Perfect Capital Mobility ](/regulation/sept/dec-1984/theory-expropriation-deviations-perfect-capital-mobility)

##### [Crown Corporations in Canada: The Calculus of Investment Choice ](/regulation/sept/dec-1984/crown-corporations-canada-calculus-investment-choice)

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