August/September 1997

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Editor's Notes

• Pricing Pencils

  Michael W. Lynch

  The FTC's creative market definitions

• Capital Cynics

  Virginia Postrel

  Who do they think they're fooling?

Letters

• Letters

Citings

• Disability Roundup

  Brian Doherty

• Flat-Bread Truck

  Brian Doherty

• Kids These Days

  Brian Doherty

• Ban Aid

  Jacob Sullum

• Deterrent Defect

  Jacob Sullum

• This Bud's for You

  Jeff Taylor

• Store-Bought Protection

  Kenneth Lloyd Billingsley

• Chartering Classes

  Lisa Snell

• Flat-Tax Societies

  Nick Gillespie

• Ultimate Wimps

  Rick Henderson

Balance Sheets

• Balance Sheet

  Rick Henderson

Data

• Data: Home Rule

  Nick Gillespie

Brickbats

• Brickbats

  Charles Oliver

Quotes

• Quotes

Columns

• Cash Money

  Thomas W. Hazlett

  How consumer activists sabotage ATM customers

• Courting Trouble

  Michael W. Lynch

  Congress would rather complain about life-tenured federal judges than make recalcitrant bureaucrats enforce the law.

• Taxing Times

  Daniel J. Mitchell

  Squabbling between flat taxers and sales taxers could allow the Internal Revenue Code to escape unscathed.

• Retro Style

  Walter Olson

  Redefining yesterday's green light as red

• Environmental Injustice

  Henry Payne

  How green ideology denies poor blacks good jobs

• Money Walks

  John J. Pitney, Jr.

  Why campaign contributions aren't as corrupting as you think

Features

• The Embarassment of Riches

  Brian Doherty

  For today's independent artists, integrity can be financially rewarding. Can punk rock and alternative comics make peace with entrepreneurial capitalism?

• Polluted Science

  Michael Fumento

  New air pollution regulations based on questionable science and creative economic analysis could cost billions and change the way Americans mow their lawns, heat their homes, clean their clothes, and barbecue their burgers. Can Congress stop this regulato

• Thy Neighbor's Keeper

  Amy Sherman

  Can private charities replace tax-funded welfare? A program in one Maryland county suggests the challenges facing church-based efforts to help welfae mothers become self-sufficient.

Book Reviews

• Inspecting the Inspectors

  Robert Poole

• Riding the Wave

  Gregory Clark

• Escape Mechanisms

  James V. DeLong

• Straight Shooters

  T. Markus Funk

• A Thin Line Between Love and Hate

  John J. Pitney, Jr.

• Edifice Complex

  Rick Henderson

Artifacts

• Artifact: More Bullion from Washington

  Rick Henderson