Roger Noll, emeritus professor of economics at Stanford University, will deliver the 2006 AEI-Brookings Joint Center Distinguished Lecture on why regulatory reform has stalled and why certain costly regulatory practices are spreading to the rest of the world. He will discuss how politics can block beneficial reforms of regulations that...

Again an older technology has been improved and adapted to fill a need while government dithers.The old technology in this case is buses.

The rationale for repealing the insurance antitrust exemption is--to borrow a word used by Mr. Obama in his radio address--bogus.

Smart grid technologies and an energy policy that creates a source-neutral framework for energy demand would bolster competition and could ultimately eliminate the need for price guarantees by state regulators.

This book assesses the current status of the public utility deregulation movement in the United States.

In every sector, competition lowered costs, meant better service for low-income people and smaller businesses--and encouraged investment and renewal.

Releasing the regional Bell monopolies from their obligations under the Telecommunications Act of 1996would kill competition and innovation.

The House Financial Services Committee and Senate Banking Committee bills are generally consistent, although a few points of controversy must be addressed.