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Winter 2024-2025
Regulation

Reforming US Building Codes
The International Code Council needs to compare the costs and benefits of its recommended requirements.
By Emily Hamilton
Winter 2024-2025
Regulation

A Vehicle Mileage Tax for Heavy Trucks?
Economists have long argued for replacing the gas tax with a mileage tax.
By Michael F. Gorman
Winter 2024-2025
Regulation

Two Thalidomide Disasters
Myths about the FDA’s role in the thalidomide tragedy have resulted in decades of it obstructing many beneficial drugs.
By Charles L. Hooper and David R. Henderson
Winter 2024-2025
Regulation

Commandeering Theory
Government uses its regulatory powers to manipulate consumer spending and behavior.
By Carl R. Danner
Regulation

Vol. 47 No. 4
Winter 2024-2025
According to traditional theories of regulation, government should protect the public from utility monopoly power and enforce no restrictions on the content of public discourse. But instead, we see authorities doing the opposite to pursue their own objectives. This practice goes beyond prior theories of regulation into something new: the commandeering of private entities’ market power by government for its own ends, ironically by causing the same types of consumer harm—higher prices, service losses, and censorship—that government is supposed to guard against.
Fall 2024
Regulation

The Weirdness of Politics
Last month, Democrats trotted out a word to chastise this sort of policy flimflam: “Weird.”
By Tim Rowland
Fall 2024
Regulation

Book Review: The Medieval Constitution of Liberty: Political Foundations of Liberalism in the West
By Pierre Lemieux
Fall 2024
Regulation

Book Review: When McKinsey Comes to Town: The Hidden Influence of the World’s Most Powerful Consulting Firm
By Vern McKinley
Fall 2024
Regulation

Book Review: Late Admissions: Confessions of a Black Conservative
By Art Carden
Fall 2024
Regulation

Book Review: Better Health Economics: An Introduction for Everyone
By Phil R. Murray
Fall 2024
Regulation

Book Review: The Individualists: Radicals, Reactionaries, and the Struggle for the Soul of Libertarianism
By Pierre Lemieux
Fall 2024
Regulation

Book Review: The State of Black Progress: Confronting Government and Judicial Obstacles
By George C. Leef
Fall 2024
Regulation

MFN Clauses and TV Programming
By Ike Brannon
Fall 2024
Regulation

CON and Ambulatory Surgical Centers
By Thomas Stratmann, Markus Bjoerkheim, and Christopher Koopman
Fall 2024
Regulation

What Happens Post-Chevron? - Introduction
Many dire predictions and a lot of heated rhetoric have followed the Loper Bright decision, but what are its likely consequences?
By Peter Van Doren