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# Winter 2000 

Vol. 23 No. 4 

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##### From the Cover 

### [The R &amp; D Boondoggle ](/regulation/winter-2000/r-d-boondoggle)

By Scott Wallsten 

### [Selling Artifacts ](/regulation/winter-2000/selling-artifacts)

By [Richard L. Stroup](https://www.cato.org/people/richard-stroup) and Matthew Brown 

### [The Forest Service’s Tinderbox ](/regulation/winter-2000/forest-services-tinderbox)

By Robert H. Nelson 

##### Features 

#### [Keeping the Power On ](/regulation/winter-2000/keeping-power)

By Benjamin Zycher 

#### [Paying Too Much for Petrol ](/regulation/winter-2000/paying-too-much-petrol)

By Ian W.H. Parry 

#### [The Fallout from FAS 133 ](/regulation/winter-2000/fallout-fas-133)

By Ira Kawaller and John Ensminger 

#### [Managing Catastrophe Risk ](/regulation/winter-2000/managing-catastrophe-risk)

By Paul R. Kleindorfer and Howard Kunreuther 

#### [The Dilemmas of International Financial Regulation ](/regulation/winter-2000/dilemmas-international-financial-regulation)

By Thomas Oatley 

##### For the Record 

##### [ZEV’s Folly and Failure ](/regulation/winter-2000/zevs-folly-failure)

##### [Revisiting “The Way of Warming” ](/regulation/winter-2000/revisiting-way-warming)

##### In Review 

##### [Book Review: *Public Finance and Public Choice: Two Contrasting Visions of the State*](/regulation/winter-2000/book-review-public-finance-public-choice-two-contrasting-visions-state)

By Wallace Oates 

##### [Book Review: *Hard Green: Saving the Environment From the Environmentalists: A Conservative Manifesto*](/regulation/winter-2000/book-review-hard-green-saving-environment-environmentalists-conservative)

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

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