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# Sept/​Oct 1980 

Vol. 4 No. 5 

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##### Viewpoint 

### [A Democrat Looks at the Republican Platform ](/regulation/sept/oct-1980/democrat-looks-republican-platform)

By Stuart Eizenstat 

### [A Republican Looks at the Democratic Platform ](/regulation/sept/oct-1980/republican-looks-democratic-platform)

By Calvin J. Collier 

##### Features 

#### [Compensating Victims of Policy Change ](/regulation/sept/oct-1980/compensating-victims-policy-change)

By Robert S. Goldfarb 

#### [Protecting Workers’ Hearing: An Economic Test for OSHA Initiatives ](/regulation/sept/oct-1980/protecting-workers-hearing-economic-test-osha-initiatives)

By Thomas F. Walton 

#### [The “State” of Regulatory Reform ](/regulation/sept/oct-1980/state-regulatory-reform)

By Bruce E. Babbitt 

#### [Inflation and the NLRB: A Case of Fortuitous Regulatory Expansion ](/regulation/sept/oct-1980/inflation-nlrb-case-fortuitous-regulatory-expansion)

By Bernard D. Meltzer and Robert J. LaLonde 

##### Letters 

##### [Corporate Democracy ](/regulation/sept/oct-1980/corporate-democracy)

##### [The Regulatory Budget ](/regulation/sept/oct-1980/regulatory-budget)

##### Perspectives 

##### [Enterprise Zones: The New Fluoride for Urban Decay ](/regulation/sept/oct-1980/enterprise-zones-new-fluoride-urban-decay)

##### [Academic Freedom Misapplied ](/regulation/sept/oct-1980/academic-freedom-misapplied)

##### [Energy Independence Down the Tube? ](/regulation/sept/oct-1980/energy-independence-down-tube)

##### [Legislative History Reconsidered ](/regulation/sept/oct-1980/legislative-history-reconsidered)

##### [The Hospital Industry’s New Vulnerability to Antitrust ](/regulation/sept/oct-1980/hospital-industrys-new-vulnerability-antitrust)

##### Readings 

##### [Shared Monopoly ](/regulation/sept/oct-1980/shared-monopoly)

##### [Incentives as the Mother of Invention ](/regulation/sept/oct-1980/incentives-mother-invention)

##### [The Seabrook Experience ](/regulation/sept/oct-1980/seabrook-experience)

##### [Politics, Pressures, and Nuclear Power ](/regulation/sept/oct-1980/politics-pressures-nuclear-power)

##### [The Cost of Regulating Copper Production ](/regulation/sept/oct-1980/cost-regulating-copper-production)

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