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# Winter 2010–2011 

Vol. 33 No. 4 

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##### From the Cover 

### [In Medicine, Money Matters ](/regulation/winter-2010-2011/medicine-money-matters)

By [David A. Hyman](https://www.cato.org/people/david-hyman) 

Real health care reform would change incentives. 

### [Gresham’s Law of Green Energy ](/regulation/winter-2010-2011/greshams-law-green-energy)

High-cost subsidized renewable resources destroy jobs and hurt consumers. 

### [The Staggers Act, 30 Years Later ](/regulation/winter-2010-2011/staggers-act-30-years-later)

By Douglas W. Caves, Lauritis R. Christensen, and Joseph A. Swanson 

The authors of a 1981 article on railroad deregulation review their observations. 

### [Should Noncompetes Be Enforced? ](/regulation/winter-2010-2011/should-noncompetes-be-enforced)

By Alan Hyde 

New empirical evidence reveals the economic harm of non-compete covenants. 

##### Features 

#### [A Worrisome Crop? ](/regulation/winter-2010-2011/worrisome-crop)

By Nicholas Kalaitzandonakes, Alexandre Magnier, and Douglas Miller 

Is there market power in the U.S. seed industry? 

#### [Railroad Performance Under the Staggers Act ](/regulation/winter-2010-2011/railroad-performance-under-staggers-act)

By B. Kelly Eakin, A. Thomas Bozzo, Mark E. Meitzen, & Philip E. Schoech 

Deregulation revived the rail freight industry, with most of the gains going to shippers. 

##### Briefly Noted 

##### [Hurd on the Street? ](/regulation/winter-2010-2011/hurd-street)

By Richard A. Booth 

##### [Residential Dynamic Pricing and “Energy Stamps” ](/regulation/winter-2010-2011/residential-dynamic-pricing-energy-stamps)

By Ahmad Faruqui 

##### In Review 

##### [That “70s Show” ](/regulation/winter-2010-2011/book-review-energy-myths-realities)

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

##### [More Efficient Justice? ](/regulation/winter-2010-2011/book-review-pursuit-justice)

By George C. Leef 

##### [Partly Right on the Crisis ](/regulation/winter-2010-2011/book-review-fault-lines-jimmy-stewart-dead)

By David R. Henderson 

##### [Torturing the Data? ](/regulation/winter-2010-2011/book-review-more-guns-less-crime-3rd-ed)

By [Stan Liebowitz](https://www.cato.org/people/stan-liebowitz) 

##### [Working Papers ](/regulation/winter-2010-2011/working-papers)

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

##### Final Word 

##### [Of Facemasks and Phone-Texting ](/regulation/winter-2010-2011/facemasks-phone-texting)

By Tim Rowland 

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