Archive for Sam Kazman
Protecting America’s Health: The FDA, Business, and One Hundred Years of Regulation
George Stigler once compared regulating on the basis of corporate misdeeds to an audition at which the second singer is selected after only the first has sung. When it comes to food and health, Philip Hilts, a veteran medical reporter, runs the same sort of abbreviated audition. His latest book is an eminently readable, amply [...]
7Jul2010 | Sam Kazman | 1 comment | ContinuedThe Scapegoat Utility Vehicle
Sam Kazman is general counsel of the Competitive Enterprise Institute (www.cei.org), a Washington-based free-market advocacy organization. First sin, then treason, and finally, reckless idiocy. For owners of sports utility vehicles (SUVs), that pretty much sums up the last holiday season. They went into Thanksgiving under fire from the “What Would Jesus Drive?” campaign. Then the [...]
1Jul2003 | Sam Kazman | 0 comments | ContinuedA Question of Intent: A Great American Battle with a Deadly Industry
How should we regard the tobacco industry? Specifically, how should we view its actions before the late 1990s, when a combination of regulatory and litigation onslaughts changed its very nature? Before that time, was the industry engaged in dishonestly hooking the public on a product that it knew to be deadly, or was it legitimately [...]
1Sep2002 | Sam Kazman | 1 comment | ContinuedThe Mother of All Food Fights
Sam Kazman is general counsel at the Competitive Enterprise Institute. Someone once commented that if the federal government regulated restaurant fare, there’d be blood in the streets. Vegetarians would be fighting with meat-eaters, Jews and Moslems would battle pork fanciers, tee-totalers would have at it with imbibers, and burrito purists would persecute wrap-sandwich snackers. Food [...]
1Nov1998 | Sam Kazman | 0 comments | Continued-
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Creating Jobs versus Creating Value
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