This study explains why financial services have for centuries been regulated to a greater extent than are most products that do not directly affect people's health or safety.

This book assesses the likely consequences of tighter science budgets and suggests ways in which U.S. science can come to terms with downsizing.

Contributors discuss proposals the legislative veto, the regulatory budget, mandatory applications of cost-benefit analysis, and the Carter administration's regulatory reform initiatives.

This book examines America's economy over the past several decades and the sources of our recent success and comes to surprising conclusions about what we can learn from it.

This volume considers whether the first major overhaul of U.S. communications policy in more than sixty years is accomplishing its purposes.

Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac have aggressively used their government support to achieve extraordinarily high profitability and domination of the residential mortgage market.

Because two disparate clients demand loyalty from Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, these government-sponsored entities must fulfill two ultimately irreconcilable roles.