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# Summer 2010 

Vol. 33 No. 2 

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##### From the Cover 

### [Consumer Protection Without Law ](/regulation/summer-2010/consumer-protection-without-law)

By Omri Ben-Shahar 

Can one-way contracts provide better consumer protection than the current enforcement-based regime? 

### [No Theory? No Evidence? No Problem! ](/regulation/summer-2010/no-theory-no-evidence-no-problem)

By Craig Pirrong 

The CFTC has no sound justification for its proposed energy speculative position limits. 

### [Money to Go ](/regulation/summer-2010/money-go)

By [Todd Zywicki](https://www.cato.org/people/todd-zywicki) 

Auto title lending has an important role in the financial services marketplace. 

### [Tracking “Go-Getters” Across America ](/regulation/summer-2010/tracking-go-getters-across-america)

By Tate Watkins and Bruce Yandle 

Where do young workers want to live? 

##### Features 

#### [The Economic Losers from Smoking Bans ](/regulation/summer-2010/economic-losers-smoking-bans)

By Michael L. Marlow 

Should policymakers worry about harm to bars, VFWs, and fraternal organizations? 

#### [Weighing the Value of a Ton of Pollution ](/regulation/summer-2010/weighing-value-ton-pollution)

By Nicholas Z. Muller and Robert Mendelsohn 

Introducing trading was a helpful start toward market-oriented reforms, but policymakers need to get the prices of permits right to get the most out of environmental regulations. 

##### For the Record 

##### [In Defense of Private Equity ](/regulation/summer-2010/defense-private-equity)

By David Haarmeyer 

##### [Response ](/regulation/summer-2010/response)

By James Spindler 

##### [What to Do about “Unknown Risks” ](/regulation/summer-2010/what-do-about-unknown-risks)

By Richard Wilson 

##### [Response ](/regulation/summer-2010/response-0)

By Gio Batta Gori 

##### Briefly Noted 

##### [When DC Freezes Over ](/regulation/summer-2010/when-dc-freezes-over)

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

##### [A Tale of Two Doctors ](/regulation/summer-2010/tale-two-doctors)

By Erwin A. Blackstone 

##### In Review 

##### [Regulation Overdose ](/regulation/summer-2010/book-review-leviathans-drug-problem-overdose)

By David R. Henderson 

##### [The Living Dead ](/regulation/summer-2010/book-review-tyranny-dead-ideas)

By George C. Leef 

##### [Losing the Privilege ](/regulation/summer-2010/book-review-losing-news)

By William L. Anderson 

##### [‘Clean’ Energy and Disguised Costs ](/regulation/summer-2010/book-review-economic-benefits-investing-clean-energy)

By David R. Henderson 

##### [Environmental Policy Memos to the President ](/regulation/summer-2010/book-review-breaking-logjam)

By Robert H. Nelson 

##### [Climate *Realpolitik*](/regulation/summer-2010/book-review-plundered-planet)

By Lee Lane 

##### [*Some* Intellectuals and Society](/regulation/summer-2010/book-review-intellectuals-society)

By David R. Henderson 

##### [Working Papers ](/regulation/summer-2010/book-review-working-papers-shadow-banking-financial-crisis)

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

##### Final Word 

##### [Free Speech for All, Except… ](/regulation/summer-2010/free-speech-all-except)

By Marni Soupcoff 

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