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# Spring 2012 

Vol. 35 No. 1 

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##### From the Cover 

### [The Interview ](/regulation/spring-2012/interview)

By Susan E. Dudley 

### [Lessons ](/regulation/spring-2012/lessons)

By William F. Hederman 

Bill deeply influenced our class of policy analysts in our formation as professionals.

### [The Keeper of the Holy Grail of Reaganomics ](/regulation/spring-2012/keeper-holy-grail-reaganomics)

By [Jerry L. Jordan](https://www.cato.org/people/jerry-jordan) 

Bill kept stepping up to bat for the four years of Reagan’s first term, always handling the outs with grace and moving on to the next issue.

### [Breadth of Personal Experience ](/regulation/spring-2012/breadth-personal-experience)

By [William Poole](https://www.cato.org/people/william-poole) 

Bill was the most widely read person I have known. That, plus the breadth of his personal experience, made him a delightful conversationalist on almost any topic in almost any group.

### [Thanks, Bill ](/regulation/spring-2012/thanks-bill)

By Benjamin Zycher 

Bill’s lectures were adventures.

### [A Tough-Minded and Humane Man ](/regulation/spring-2012/tough-minded-humane-man)

By David R. Henderson 

Though a microeconomist by training and inclination, Bill had good insights about some major macroeconomic issues.

##### Features 

#### [Regulation Goes Medieval ](/regulation/spring-2012/regulation-goes-medieval)

By Andrew A. Schwarz 

The federal Credit CARD Act is a setback for the rights of young people.

#### [What We Should Do about Social Security Disability ](/regulation/spring-2012/what-we-should-do-about-social-security-disability)

By Jeffrey S. Wolfe and Dale D. Glendening 

A response to Richard J. Pierce

#### [Reply ](/regulation/spring-2012/reply)

By Richard J. Pierce, Jr. 

#### [Does Product Liability Make Us Safer? ](/regulation/spring-2012/does-product-liability-make-us-safer)

By W. Kip Viscusi 

Adverse consequences arise from problems with the judicial system and jurors’ judgment biases.

#### [Paying Bank Examiners for Performance ](/regulation/spring-2012/paying-bank-examiners-performance)

By M. Todd Henderson and Frederick Tung 

Should regulators receive bonuses for effectively guarding the public interest?

##### For the Record 

##### [Net Neutrality: Wrong Remedy, Wrong Illness ](/regulation/spring-2012/net-neutrality-wrong-remedy-wrong-illness)

By Timothy J. Brennan 

##### [Antitrust Regulators and the Chicago School ](/regulation/spring-2012/antitrust-regulators-chicago-school)

By Malcolm B. Coate and Jeffrey H. Fischer 

##### Briefly Noted 

##### [Taxi Medallions Coming to a City Near You ](/regulation/spring-2012/taxi-medallions-coming-city-near-you)

By [Ike Brannon](https://www.cato.org/people/ike-brannon) and Matt Thoman 

##### [First-Year Grades on Obama Regulatory Reform ](/regulation/spring-2012/first-year-grades-obama-regulatory-reform)

By [Ike Brannon](https://www.cato.org/people/ike-brannon) and Sam Batkins 

##### [A Welfare State by Any Other Name ](/regulation/spring-2012/welfare-state-any-other-name)

By Pierre Lemieux 

##### In Review 

##### [A Useful, Frightening Book ](/regulation/spring-2012/prosecutors-boardroom-using-criminal-law-regulate-corporate-conduct)

By [John Hasnas](https://www.cato.org/people/john-hasnas) 

##### [The Economics of Takings ](/regulation/spring-2012/economic-theory-eminent-domain-private-property-public-use)

By [Ilya Somin](https://www.cato.org/people/ilya-somin) 

##### [Unfair and Imbalanced ](/regulation/spring-2012/left-turn-how-liberal-media-bias-distorts-american-mind)

By David R. Henderson 

##### [The Need for Disability Insurance Reform ](/regulation/spring-2012/declining-work-welfare-people-disabilities)

By George C. Leef 

##### [Working Papers ](/regulation/spring-2012/working-papers)

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

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