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What's next for telecommunications deregulation?
Source: Heritage Foundation
Author: Adam D. Thierer
Country: United States

The Telecommunications Act of 1996 didn't go far enough. This backgrounder argues for the Internet Protection Act.

That
Source: Reason Foundation
Author: Susan Lee
Country: United States

"Why owning your own business is no longer a recipe for independence." Wading through the muck of federal regulation.

... but bad for the Justice Department
Source: Wall Street Journal/Hudson Institute
Author: Alan Reynolds
Country: United States

"News that America Online is buying Netscape is far more relevant to the Microsoft antitrust case than all the bewildering courtroom comments from AOL, Netscape and other Microsoft rivals."

Union Discipline and Employee Rights
Source: National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation
Author: Rossie D. Alston, Jr. and Glenn M. Taubman
Country: United States

This article examines the rights unionized employees have if they decide to "buck the system." (6/99)

Regulatory burden on small firms in Europe
Source: NCPA
Country: United States

"The cost of regulation is a global problem affecting both developed and undeveloped countries. Despite the variety of approaches adopted to control regulatory costs, burdens seem to have grown everywhere." (04/26/02))

Increasing the minimum wage costs jobs and increases poverty
Source: Employment Policy Foundation
Country: United States

Because increasing the minimum wage appears to be "free," it is attractive to some politicians. However, recent research makes it clear who actually pays the cost of this misguided policy–those workers with the fewest skills and lowest education. (9/25/00)

How trust is achieved in free markets
Source: The Cato Institute
Author: Daniel B. Klein
Country: United States
E-mail: dklein@scu.edu

One of the arguments for government regulation of business is that it is needed to prevent ripoff artists from making a bundle. But free markets do a very good job of eliciting good business conduct on their own. Find out how. (12/97)

The real cost of regulation
Source: Imprimis
Author: John Stossel
Country: United States

Stossel, a consumer reporter for ABC News, explains the hidden costs of regulation, and how consumers are better served by free markets than by government interventions.

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