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The Half-Life of Policy Rationales
How New Technology Affects Old Policy Issues

Edited by

Fred E. Foldvary and Daniel B. Klein

New York University Press, 2003
A Cato Institute Book

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Table of Contents

Selected chapters:

Introduction: The Half-Life of Policy Rationales: How New Technology Affects Old Policy Issues
by Fred E. Foldvary and Daniel B. Klein

Buying Time at the Curb
by Donald C. Shoup

Fencing the Airshed: Using Remote Sensing to Police Auto Emissions
by Daniel B. Klein

Consumer Protection Regulation and Information on the Internet
by John C. Moorhouse

Technology and Electricity: Overcoming the Umbilical Mentality
by Alvin Lowi Jr. and Clyde Wayne Crews Jr.

Avoiding the Grid:
Technology and the Decentralization of Water
by Alvin Lowi Jr.

The Entrepreneurial Community in Light of Advancing Business Practices and Technologies
by Spencer Heath MacCallum

Excerpts from book reviews

 

Two short pieces at Tech Central Station about the book

The Fatal Conceit Revisited

Virtual Barbed Wire