Fall 1998 Vol. 21 No. 4 Subscribe Share Features Where the Boys Are: Sex Ratios and Environment Emissions Trading for Global Warming By James L. Johnston Lies, Damned Lies, and 400,000 Smoking-Related Deaths By Robert A. Levy and Rosalind B. Marimont Keeping it Simple: Making Regulators Write in Plain Language By Vern McKinley The Environmental Transition to Air Quality By Indur M. Goklany Getting Beyond the Managed Care Backlash By Tom Miller and Gregory Conko Columns Steel: The Other Side of the Story By Brink Lindsey Who Decides if Children Are Vaccinated By Sue A. Blevins The Woburn Controversy: What We Know By Tim Lynch Sending Truckers Down a Slippery Slope By Frank Wilner Playing Hookie By Sheldon L. Richman Letters More on “Murder by Medicare” An M.D. Reacts to “Murder by Medicare” Another M.D. Weighs in Score One for the FDA Railroad Regulation Is Hardly Onerous Perspectives Changing of the Guard “It’s the FDA. We’re Here to Burn Your Books” Free Speech vs. the FDA: Direct-to-Consumer Ads A Tangled Web: IOLTA and the Banks Readings Do Deficits Matter? Fiscal Policy: Lessons From Economic Research Public Policy Toward Pensions The Economics Of Conservation Programs Telecommunications Policy Have Regulators Dialed the Wrong Number? Derailed Railroad Mergers History Analysis Insight International Comparisons Of Electricity Regulation The Post-Cold War Trading System: Who’s on First? Latest Issues Fall 2024 Summer 2024 Spring 2024 Winter 2023–2024