Sept/Oct 1979 Vol. 3 No. 5 Subscribe Share Viewpoint Why Oil Prices Should Be Decontrolled By Kenneth J. Arrow and Joseph P. Kalt Features Synthetic Fuels: Should the Government Subsidize Nonconventional Energy Supplies? By Paul L. Joskow and Robert S. Pindyck Rx: More Regulation or Better Therapies? By William Wardell The Weber Case: Double Talk and Double Standards By Bernard D. Meltzer Regulating Chrysler Out of Business By Kenneth W. Clarkson, Charles W. Kadlec, and Arthur Laffer Putting the Skids to Meals on Wheels By Michael Balzano Letters PACs Perspectives The Tariff Alternative Mobilizing the Energy Regulators Letting the Buses Run Free Who’s in Charge Here? In Brief Readings Regulating Business Costs of Social Regulation Assessing Oil Import Quotas The Economics of Antitrust The Beleaguered Corporation The Natural Monopoly Problem Latest Issues Summer 2024 Spring 2024 Winter 2023–2024 Fall 2023
Synthetic Fuels: Should the Government Subsidize Nonconventional Energy Supplies? By Paul L. Joskow and Robert S. Pindyck