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# Spring 2011 

Vol. 34 No. 1 

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##### From the Cover 

### [The Problem with Price Gouging Laws ](/regulation/spring-2011/problem-price-gouging-laws)

By Michael Giberson 

Is optimal pricing during an emergency unethical? 

### [Alfred Kahn, 1917–2010 ](/regulation/spring-2011/alfred-kahn-1917-2010)

By Susan E. Dudley 

Remembering the father of airline deregulation. 

### [Slim Odds ](/regulation/spring-2011/slim-odds)

By Eric Helland and Jonathan Klick 

Empirical studies provide little evidence that soda taxes would shrink Americans’ waistlines. 

##### Features 

#### [Lessons from New Jersey ](/regulation/spring-2011/lessons-new-jersey)

By Stuart Shapiro and Debra Borie-Holtz 

What are the effects of “administrative procedures” regulatory reform?

#### [The Dangerous Experiment of the Durbin Amendment ](/regulation/spring-2011/dangerous-experiment-durbin-amendment)

By [Richard A. Epstein](https://www.cato.org/people/richard-epstein) 

Congress’ interchange fee limit is a reckless exercise in price regulation. 

#### [A Pennsylvania Power Authority? ](/regulation/spring-2011/pennsylvania-power-authority)

By Andrew N. Kleit 

Despite proponents’ claims, it is unlikely that a government-run power authority would benefit consumers. 

#### [The Politics of Executive Pay ](/regulation/spring-2011/politics-executive-pay)

By Jerry W. Markham 

Ideology, not “social justice,” fuels calls for restraints on executive compensation. 

#### [Blooming Nonsense ](/regulation/spring-2011/blooming-nonsense)

By Dick M. Carpenter II 

Do claims about the consumer benefit of licensure withstand empirical scrutiny? 

##### For the Record 

##### [Realigning Health Care Incentives ](/regulation/spring-2011/realigning-health-care-incentives)

By Jack Tawil 

##### [Erratum ](/regulation/spring-2011/erratum)

##### Briefly Noted 

##### [Happy Birthday EPA? ](/regulation/spring-2011/happy-birthday-epa)

By Henry I. Miller 

##### In Review 

##### [Another Antitrust Consensus? ](/regulation/spring-2011/book-review-antitrust-law-economics)

By [Richard L. Gordon](https://www.cato.org/people/richard-gordon) 

##### [Book Review: *Zombie Economics: How Dead Ideas Still Walk among Us*](/regulation/spring-2011/book-review-zombie-economics-how-dead-ideas-still-walk-among-us)

By David R. Henderson 

##### [(Mostly) Realism on Global Warming ](/regulation/spring-2011/book-review-climate-fix-what-scientists-politicians-wont-tell-you-about)

By Jonathan H. Adler 

##### [Working Papers ](/regulation/spring-2011/working-papers)

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

##### Final Word 

##### [An Injection of Truth ](/regulation/spring-2011/injection-truth)

By Marni Soupcoff 

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