Regulation articles from March 2008

Regulation archives from March 2008

A final response to Menell.(FOR THE RECORD)(Letter to the editor)
March 22, 2008... At this point, I am at a loss to know how to reply to Peter Menell ("Intellectual Property and the Law of Land," Winter 2007-2008), who introduced a dens ex machina to salvage his inaccurate summarization of my published work. His initial...

Coroners and 'The Big Kill'.(FOR THE RECORD)(Letter to the editor)
March 22, 2008... The best professionals to consult about the possibility of deaths due to secondhand smoke ("Calculating the Big Kill," Winter 2008) are the ones who deal with it daily. That is, coroners and medical examiners. The largest county in the...

Free sex chat?(BRIEFLY NOTED)
March 22, 2008... Why would the operators of websites like hotlivesexchat.com, allfreecalls.net, and freecalls2theworld.com route phone calls to their services through rural American towns like Riceville, Iowa? To take advantage of complicated telecommunications...

Bush at midnight.(BRIEFLY NOTED)
March 22, 2008... Lame duck presidents' ability to achieve anything in the last months of their presidency has been compared to "a balloon with a slow leak that shrinks with each passing week until it hits the ground." And yet in his last days in office,...

The temptation of media regulation: why not unbundle episodes or innings?(TELECOMMUNICATIONS & TECHNOLOGY)(Company overview)
March 22, 2008... Regarding mass media policy, the bookends of the political spectrum often find common ground. Left and right agree that mass media content is not satisfactory and that more or better federal regulation is the solution. The right seeks to reduce...

Global warming and social justice: do we owe the world for climate change?(ENVIRONMENT)
March 22, 2008... Climate change raises serious questions of science and economics, but it also raises questions of justice. The United States has been the world's leading contributor to the problem, and it is also the wealthiest nation on the face of the earth....

Four lessons from the whole foods case: the antitrust analysis of mergers should be reconsidered.(ANTITRUST)
March 22, 2008... One of the most maligned antitrust decisions in history involved a merger of grocery store chains. Indeed, even those voices inclined toward substantial antitrust intervention believe the U.S. Supreme Court erred in its 1966 Von's Grocery...

A solution to airport delays: an auction for takeoff and landing slots would make more efficient use of scarce resources.(TRANSPORTATION)
March 22, 2008... As highlighted in recent news articles, airport delays are increasing significantly. Both the Bush administration and Congress are actively seeking ways to reduce the scope of the problem and better protect the rights of passengers in case of...

Has Wal-Mart buried mom and pop? Does small business decline when Wal-Mart enters the market?(FREE MARKETS)(Company overview)
March 22, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Many believe the mega discount store Wal-Mart is a plague set upon small "mom-and-pop" businesses. The instant Wal-Mart moves into town, all small businesses are destroyed in its path, leaving downtowns barren and...

The economics of naked short selling: naked shorting is little different from permissible shorting.(SECURITIES & EXCHANGE)
March 22, 2008... Securities and Exchange Commission regulations define a "short sale" to "mean any sale of a security which the seller does not own or any sale which is consummated by the delivery of a security borrowed by, or for the account of, the seller."...

The 'phantom shares' menace: naked short selling distorts shareholder control.(SECURITIES & EXCHANGE)
March 22, 2008... In 1985, the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD) commissioned Irving M. Pollack, a securities law expert and former Securities and Exchange commissioner, to conduct a comprehensive review of short selling in NASDAQ securities. The...

Look what the Brits have done!
March 22, 2008... THEY MEANT WELL: Government Project Disasters, By D. R. Myddelton 242 pages; Institute of Economic Affairs, 2007 Those of us who favor limited Government argue that when the state gets involved in projects that can be done by...

Before socialized medicine.(Origins of American Health Insurance: A History of Industrial Sickness Funds)(Book review)
March 22, 2008... ORIGINS OF AMERICAN HEALTH INSURANCE: A History of Industrial Sickness Funds by John E. Murray 313 pages; Yale University Press, 2007 An old saying is that history is written by the winners. That used to be true, but isn't any...

Destination: freeport Texas.
March 22, 2008... BULLDOZED By Carla T. Main 276 pages; Encounter Books, 2007 In 2005, eminent domain became a hot national issue as a result of the Supreme Court's decision in Kelo v. New London. While property rights scholars and libertarian...

Facebooking the candidates.(THE FINAL WORD)(Calendar)
March 22, 2008... News Feed DECEMBER Hillary Clinton is attending Wal-Mart Board Alumni Meeting. Mitt Romney left the group Men With a Tear in Their Eye. Rudy Giuliani joined the group YES To Wiretapping! Fred Thompson is taking the day...