ISIL Freedom Network: Global > Scholarly and In-Depth Studies > Regulation and Deregulation

Economic analysis of a living wage ordinance
Source: Employment Policies Institute
Author: George Tolley, Peter Bernstein and Michael D. Lesage
Country: United States

"The authors of this report, Dr. George Tolley, Peter Bernstein and Michael Lesage, have blazed a trail that other researchers can now follow. The methodology employed by the authors provides information essential to any informed decision on the living wage." (Adobe Acrobat) (7/99)

Progressive Environmentalism: Principles for Regulatory Reform
Source: NCPA
Author: Kent Jeffreys
Country: United States

Policy report on environmental regulatory reform. Suggests guiding principles and presents real world case studies.

The Baltimore living wage study: Omissions, fabrications and flaws
Source: Employment Policies Institute
Country: United States

"The research supporting this national living wage movement consists entirely of one study -- an analysis of Baltimore’s living wage ordinance conducted in 1996 by the Preamble Center for Public Policy. And the findings of this report are based on information that was fabricated by the authors. " (Adobe Acrobat) (10/98)

The living wage: A survey of labor economists
Source: Employment Policies Institute
Country: United States

"Labor economists are divided over the impact of a national living wage policy on poverty rates with a plurality (43%) believing that such a policy would lead to increased poverty rates." (8/00)

Speed doesn't kill: the repeal of the 55-mph speed limit
Source: Cato Institute
Author: Stephen Moore
Country: United States

Predictions of doom and dismemberment from the repeal of the 55 mph speed limit haven't panned out. This policy analysis from Cato explains why. Executive summary available, full text in Adobe Acrobat (PDF) format. (5/31/99)

Project on Regulatory Oversight: Study Protocol 1
Source: Center for the Study of American Business
Author: Richard B. Belzer
Country: United States

In launching a massive new study of governmental regulations and their oversight, the folks at CSAB have laid out ahead of time the criteria they will use in making their evaluations in this document. In Adobe Acrobat (PDF) format. (3/99)

Independent Regulatory Oversight: A New Path to Regulatory Reform
Source: Center for the Study of American Business
Author: Richard B. Belzer
Country: United States

Text of a presentation by Richard B. Belzer to the American Farm Bureau Federation regarding the launch of CSAB's newest regulatory reform effort. (1/99)

Will Congress or the new administration protect consumers from DOE, clothes washer manufacturers and self-appointed energy efficiency advocates?
Source: Consumer Alert
Author: Glenn R. Schleede
Country: United States

This study examines federal standards for clothes washing machines and their effects on consumers. (03/01/01)

Private property without rights
Source: CIS/Policy
Author: Steven Kates
Country: United States

Our emergent socioeconomic system has at its core the delegation of commercial risk to the owners of assets while the government stands at the tiller directing the economy this way and that. Individuals are accorded the nominal right to "own" as a means of offloading the risk of enterprise onto someone else. (01/08/02)

Grounds for complaint?
Source: Cato Institute
Author: Brink Lindsey
Country: United States

An examination of the current "coffee crisis" that concludes that intervention in the free market would lead to more problems than the current situation has. (PDF file) (5/16/03)

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