An amicus brief regarding Abigail Alliance v. FDA.

This monograph shows that market forces frequently undermine attempts at regulation, but counterproductive regulation can nevertheless survive for a long time.

Atug of war existsbetween regulation and the natural progress of opulence. Regulation begins as an attack on gradual progress but is often overwhelmed by it.

In the 2004 AEI-Brookings Joint Center Distinguished Lecture, Professor Sam Peltzman of the University of Chicago explains how regulations frequently fall short of their goals--or even make matters worse then they would have been--because of offsetting personal or market behavior. Drawing on examples from auto safety, employment, environmental, and...

Peltzman argues that many regulatory efforts have contributed little or nothing to the general public welfare, and that some have even been disastrous.

Yale Brozen, an emeritus professor of business economics at the University of Chicago and a longtime AEI adjunct scholar, died on March 4 at the age of eighty.

Sam Peltzman delivered the 2004 Joint Center Distinguished Lecture on September 8, and he discussed how progress and regulation are intertwined.

In Traffic, Ted Vanderbilt explains why cars isolate us from social contact, converting us into ego machines.