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# Summer 2013 

Vol. 36 No. 2 

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##### From the Cover 

### [What Is the Right Price for Carbon Emissions? ](/regulation/summer-2013/what-right-price-carbon-emissions)

By Bob Litterman 

### [Pricing Carbon When We Don’t Know the Right Price ](/regulation/summer-2013/pricing-carbon-when-we-dont-know-right-price)

By Robert S. Pindyck 

### [Is an Optimal Carbon Tax Relevant? ](/regulation/summer-2013/optimal-carbon-tax-relevant)

By Daniel Sutter 

### [Politics and Climate Change ](/regulation/summer-2013/politics-climate-change)

By Shi-Ling Hsu 

### [Uncertainty Can Go Both Ways ](/regulation/summer-2013/uncertainty-can-go-both-ways)

By David R. Henderson 

### [Benefit-Cost Analysis in the Chehalis Basin ](/regulation/summer-2013/benefit-cost-analysis-chehalis-basin)

By Ryan Scott, Richard O. Zerbe, Jr, and Tyler Scott 

### [Nashville’s Anti- Competitive ‘Black-Car’ Regulations ](/regulation/summer-2013/nashvilles-anti-competitive-black-car-regulations)

By Mark W. Frankena 

##### Features 

#### [OMB’s Reported Benefits of Regulation: Too Good to Be True? ](/regulation/summer-2013/ombs-reported-benefits-regulation-too-good-be-true)

By Susan E. Dudley 

#### [Reforming Texas Electricity Markets ](/regulation/summer-2013/reforming-texas-electricity-markets)

By Andrew N. Kleit and [Robert J. Michaels](https://www.cato.org/people/robert-michaels) 

##### Briefly Noted 

##### [Questioning NHTSA’s ‘Noisy Electric Cars’ Rule ](/regulation/summer-2013/questioning-nhtsas-noisy-electric-cars-rule)

By Sofie E. Miller 

##### [The Need for Retrospective Review of Regulations ](/regulation/summer-2013/need-retrospective-review-regulations)

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

##### [Asking the Tax Code to Do Less ](/regulation/summer-2013/asking-tax-code-do-less)

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

##### [Merkel, Thatcher, and the Stony Minded Stone ](/regulation/summer-2013/merkel-thatcher-stony-minded-stone)

By Pierre Lemieux 

##### [How Much of Food Activism Is Nonsense? ](/regulation/summer-2013/how-much-food-activism-nonsense)

By Jeff Stier and Henry I. Miller 

##### [Food Safety: A Market Solution? ](/regulation/summer-2013/food-safety-market-solution)

By Paul Schwennesen 

##### In Review 

##### [Moving Beyond Ideology ](/regulation/summer-2013/moving-beyond-ideology)

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

##### [Behave! ](/regulation/summer-2013/behave)

By David R. Henderson 

##### [Prejudice and Public Choice ](/regulation/summer-2013/prejudice-public-choice)

By George C. Leef 

##### [Energy Follies ](/regulation/summer-2013/energy-follies)

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

##### [Two Hundred Ways the Tax Code Stinks ](/regulation/summer-2013/two-hundred-ways-tax-code-stinks)

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

##### [Better Mixed Economy ](/regulation/summer-2013/better-mixed-economy)

By David R. Henderson 

##### Final Word 

##### [Racing for Regulatory Gold ](/regulation/summer-2013/racing-regulatory-gold)

By A. Barton Hinkle 

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