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

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

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

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...

Some thoughts about how Atlantic institutions can be strengthened to meet new security needs before the NATO summit of July 1997.

Since I knowthat economic policy makers inside the Beltway are often too busy forintrospection, my gift to them is a list of seven New Year's resolutions.

The United States and China both seek to preserve their own wealth, but each country has much to teach the other.