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# Sept/​Oct 1985 

Vol. 9 No. 5 

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##### Features 

#### [Stretching Public Ownership vs. Energy Conservation: A Paradox ff Utility Regulation ](/regulation/sept/oct-1985/stretching-public-ownership-vs-energy-conservation-paradox-ff-utility)

By James Q. Wilson and Louise Richardson 

#### [Courts of Convenience — or Have Lawsuit, Will Travel ](/regulation/sept/oct-1985/courts-convenience-or-have-lawsuit-will-travel)

By Peter Huber 

#### [Taking Californians to the Cleaners ](/regulation/sept/oct-1985/taking-californians-cleaners)

By David L. Kirp and Eileen M. Softer 

#### [System Error: How the IBM Antitrust Suit Raised Computer Prices ](/regulation/sept/oct-1985/system-error-how-ibm-antitrust-suit-raised-computer-prices)

By David Levy and Steve Welzer 

#### [Thou Shalt Not Cut Prices! Sales-Below- Cost Laws for Gas Stations ](/regulation/sept/oct-1985/thou-shalt-not-cut-prices-sales-below-cost-laws-gas-stations)

By Robert N. Fenili and William C. Lane 

#### [A Note On Bureaucracy ](/regulation/sept/oct-1985/note-bureaucracy)

By Ludwig Von Mises 

##### Letters 

##### [Telephones and Computers: Uncrossing the Wires ](/regulation/sept/oct-1985/telephones-computers-uncrossing-wires)

##### [Comparing Kiwis and Oranges? ](/regulation/sept/oct-1985/comparing-kiwis-oranges)

##### [Competition in Transatlantic Satellites ](/regulation/sept/oct-1985/competition-transatlantic-satellites)

##### Perspectives 

##### [One Share, One Vote, Forever? ](/regulation/sept/oct-1985/one-share-one-vote-forever)

##### [Urban Decay, Regulatory Sprawl ](/regulation/sept/oct-1985/urban-decay-regulatory-sprawl)

##### [Labor’s War on “Double-Breasting” ](/regulation/sept/oct-1985/labors-war-double-breasting)

##### Readings 

##### [Firm Size and Regulatory Compliance Costs: The Case of LIFO Regulations ](/regulation/sept/oct-1985/firm-size-regulatory-compliance-costs-case-lifo-regulations)

##### [Energy, Taxes and Growth ](/regulation/sept/oct-1985/energy-taxes-growth)

##### [Chemical Risks: Fears, Facts, and the Media ](/regulation/sept/oct-1985/chemical-risks-fears-facts-media)

##### [Safety and the Second Best: The Hazards of Public Risk Management in the Courts ](/regulation/sept/oct-1985/safety-second-best-hazards-public-risk-management-courts)

##### [Aggregate Costs to the United States of Tariffs and Quotas on Imports: General Tariff Cuts and Removal of Quotas on Automobiles, Steel, Sugar and Textiles ](/regulation/sept/oct-1985/aggregate-costs-united-states-tariffs-quotas-imports-general-tariff-cuts)

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