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# Summer 1990 

Vol. 13 No. 2 

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##### Features 

#### [Unintended Consequences: The Probable Effects of Mandated Medical Insurance ](/regulation/summer-1990/unintended-consequences-probable-effects-mandated-medical-insurance)

By Simon Rottenberg 

#### [The Proliferation of Pension Regulations ](/regulation/summer-1990/proliferation-pension-regulations)

By Kathleen P. Utgoff 

#### [Why Warn? Plant Closing Legislation ](/regulation/summer-1990/why-warn-plant-closing-legislation)

By Ronald G. Ehrenberg and George H. Jakubson 

#### [Lost in Space: U.S. International Satellite Communications Policy ](/regulation/summer-1990/lost-space-us-international-satellite-communications-policy)

By Robert Hahn and Randall S. Kroszner 

#### [Automobile Insurance Regulation, Direct Democracy, and the Interests of Consumers ](/regulation/summer-1990/automobile-insurance-regulation-direct-democracy-interests-consumers)

By Benjamin Zycher 

#### [The Goevernment Securities Act of 1986: A Case Study of the Demand for Regulation ](/regulation/summer-1990/goevernment-securities-act-1986-case-study-demand-regulation)

By James B. Burnham 

##### Letters 

##### [Transcending Cost-Benefit Calculus ](/regulation/summer-1990/transcending-cost-benefit-calculus)

##### [Toothpaste, Rap, and Clean Air ](/regulation/summer-1990/toothpaste-rap-clean-air)

##### [Preaching to the Choir? ](/regulation/summer-1990/preaching-choir)

##### [Tilting the Marketplace ](/regulation/summer-1990/tilting-marketplace)

##### [Let NAPAP Reign ](/regulation/summer-1990/let-napap-reign)

##### [Broadcasting’s Future ](/regulation/summer-1990/broadcastings-future)

##### [Snake Oil in the SPR ](/regulation/summer-1990/snake-oil-spr)

##### Currents 

##### [Straws in the Wind ](/regulation/summer-1990/straws-wind)

##### [Europeanizing the American Economy ](/regulation/summer-1990/europeanizing-american-economy)

##### [An Elegy to the Barbarians ](/regulation/summer-1990/elegy-barbarians)

##### [Good Enough for Government Work: Why Moving America Is Unsatisfactory ](/regulation/summer-1990/good-enough-government-work-why-moving-america-unsatisfactory)

##### Readings 

##### [Competition Meets Telecommunications Regulation ](/regulation/summer-1990/competition-meets-telecommunications-regulation)

##### [Applying the Double Standard ](/regulation/summer-1990/applying-double-standard)

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