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OPEC Sells Us Oil Because It Likes Us? It Just Ain’t So!
Jerry Taylor is Director of Natural Resource Studies at the Cato Institute.
Slavish devotion to common but wrong-headed ideas about economics is never more in need of exposure than when the subject is oil and the Persian Gulf. Here wrong-headed ideas about economics can get someone killed.
But there they were on full display last January in [...]
Did Deregulation Kill California?
Jerry Taylor is director of natural resource studies at the Cato Institute.
Skyrocketing wholesale power prices in California and the daily threat of brownouts and blackouts have cast a pall over deregulation. “Liberals,” led by California Governor Gray Davis, blame a restructuring law passed in 1996 for the crisis, arguing that it left the [...]
Kyoto Protocol’s Death Is a Tragedy? It Just Aint So!
Last November was a bad month for the Greens. While the battle to save their most important political leader raged in Tallahassee, the battle to resurrect their most important international initiative raged in The Hague. There, representatives from 180 nations fought desperately to save the Kyoto Protocol—the 1997 global-warming treaty—from political oblivion. The meeting in [...]
1Mar2001 | Jerry Taylor | 0 comments | ContinuedSustainable Development: Common Sense or Nonsense on Stilts?
Jerry Taylor is director of natural resource studies at the Cato Institute and senior editor of Regulation magazine.
The mantra of “sustainable development” is constantly on the lips of the international agencies and nongovernmental organizations helping lesser-developed countries. The concept seems innocuous enough; after all, who would favor “unsustainable development”? But the fundamental premise [...]
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The End of Prosperity: How Higher Taxes Will Doom the Economy–If We Let it Happen
By Arthur B. Laffer, Stephen Moore, and Peter J. Tanous
