All Posts Tagged With: "EPA"
Who May Harm Whom?
Smoking has been one of the hot controversies of our time. Many people find tobacco smoke annoying, smelly, and just plain dirty and unpleasant. Some smokers themselves agree. ut today’s smoking restrictions, not to mention the attack on smokers and extortion of tobacco companies, could not have been engineered simply on the grounds that tobacco smoke is unpleasant.
1Apr2000 | Walter E. Williams | 0 comments | ContinuedRegulatory Extortion
Thomas DiLorenzo is a professor of economics at Loyola College in Baltimore, Maryland. This article is based on a presentation prepared for the Ludwig von Mises Institute’s conference, “Austrian Economics and the Financial Markets,” last September in Toronto. In 1978 Michael Jensen and William Meckling, writing in the Financial Analysts Journal, offered an extraordinarily gloomy [...]
1Mar2000 | Thomas J. DiLorenzo | 8 comments | ContinuedScientists Beware
Bruce Benson is DeVoe Moore Distinguished Research Professor at Florida State University in Tallahassee. Many political commentators lament the growing apathy among the voting-age population, but I do not believe apathy keeps many potential voters away from the polls. Many of us care a lot about what politicians are doing; we just don’t trust any [...]
1Apr1999 | Bruce L. Benson | 1 comment | ContinuedSo-Called Property Rights?
Remember William Weld? He was the Massachusetts governor (and presumed presidential wannabe), who resigned so President Clinton could appoint him to dispense advice as ambassador to Mexico. Those plans were derailed by Senator Jesse Helms, so now he makes money in Boston perhaps while planning his political future. Weld wrote an op-ed in the New [...]
1Apr1999 | Roger E. Meiners | 0 comments | ContinuedThe Bully that Acts Like a Hero
Harold Jones teaches at Mercer University’s Eugene W. Stetson School of Business and Economics in Macon, Georgia. In 1995 President Clinton established what he called “Operation Restore Trust,” a Health and Human Services initiative aimed at wiping out fraud and abuse in the health-care industry. According to the administration, only terrorism surpassed health-care fraud as [...]
1Mar1999 | Harold B. Jones Jr. | 0 comments | ContinuedDistrust and Verify
Perhaps the most positive legacy of the Clinton administration will be that it further eroded the public’s trust in the federal government. Trust has declined significantly since the Great Society programs of the Johnson administration. According to University of Michigan surveys, the number of people who responded that the federal government does what is right [...]
1Feb1999 | Dwight R. Lee | 3 comments | ContinuedBook Review: This Land Is Our Land: How to End the War on Private Property by Congressman Richard Pombo and Joseph Farah
St. Martin’s Press • 1996 • 224 pages • $22.95 Professor Kazmann lives in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. This timely book deals with an important subject: property rights. After two short introductory chapters that review the history of property rights and the place of property rights as described in the Constitution, Richard Pombo and Joseph Farah [...]
1Jan1997 | Raphael G. Kazmann | 0 comments | ContinuedAn Endless Series of Hobgoblins: The Science and Politics of Environmental Health Scares
Dr. Nelson is professor of environmental policy at the School of Public Affairs of the University of Maryland and senior fellow of the Competitive Enterprise Institute. The idea of the scientific professional emerged in the progressive era around the beginning of this century. There should be a clear boundary, the founders of scientific professions said, [...]
1Jul1996 | Robert H. Nelson | 0 comments | ContinuedEnvironmental Protection: The New Socialism?
Jane S. Shaw is a Senior Associate of PERC, a research center in Bozeman, Montana. In 1990, the economist Robert Heilbroner expressed genuine surprise at the collapse of socialism. Writing in The New Yorker, he recalled that in the debates over central planning in the 1930s and 1940s, socialism seemed to have won. A half [...]
1May1996 | Jane S. Shaw | 0 comments | ContinuedControlling Risk: Regulation or Rights?
Dr. Stroup is a Senior Associate of PERC, a research center in Bozeman, Montana, that provides market solutions to environmental problems. For many decades, Louisiana’s Gulf Coast has been a center of oil and chemical plants. The region has higher-than-average rates of death from cancer, and has even been dubbed “Cancer Alley.” Many people assume [...]
1Mar1995 | Richard L. Stroup | 1 comment | ContinuedThe War on Radon: Few Join Up
Mr. Jeffreys is a Senior Fellow in the Washington, D.C., office of the National Center for Policy Analysis (NCPA), a public policy research institute based in Dallas. Radon is a colorless, odorless gas that is present in varying quantities across almost all land environments. It is a natural by-product of the radioactive breakdown of uranium [...]
1Mar1995 | Kent Jeffreys | 1 comment | Continued-
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