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35: Public Policies, Pressure Groups, and Dead Weight Costs

Gary Becker

34: Store Wars: The Chain Tax Movement

Thomas Ross

33: The Impact of Product Recalls on the Wealth of Sellers

Gregg A. Jarrell and Sam Peltzman

32: The Behavior of U.S. Deficits

Robert Barro

31: The Extent of the Market

George Stigler and Robert A. Sherwin

30: Winners and Losers under the Robinson-Patman Act

Thomas Ross

29: Measuring the Average Marginal Tax Rates from Social Security and the Individual Income Tax

Robert Barro and Chaipat Sahasakul

28: Economic Interpretation of the History of Congressional Voting in the Twentieth Century

Sam Peltzman

27: The Origin of the Sherman Act

George Stigler

26: Measuring the Average Marginal Tax Rate from the Individual Income Tax

Robert Barro and Chaipat Sahasakul

25: The Effect of Environmental Regulation on Optimal Plant Size and Factor Shares

B. Peter Pashigian

24: Genesis of the Sherman Act

Lester G. Telser

23: Competition Among Pressure Groups for Political Influence

Gary Becker

22: Environmental Regulation: Whose Self Interests Are Being Protected?

B. Peter Pashigian

21: Unemployment Insurance, Experience Rating, and the Occurrence of Unemployment

Robert H. Topel

20: Efficient Redistribution in Agricultural Commodity Markets

Bruce Gardner

19: The Effects of FTC Advertising Regulation

Sam Peltzman

18: Legislative Tenure

George Stigler

17: Compensation for Automobile Accident Injuries: Is the Tort System Fair? – And: Insurance, Liability, and Accidents: A Theoretical and Empirical Investigation of the Effect of No-Fault on Accidents

Elisabeth M. Landes

16: The Economics of Privacy

Richard Posner

15: Uncertain Availability, Spatial Location, and Regulation: An Application to the Airline Industry

Pablo Spiller

14: The Economic Impacts of Minimum Wage Laws: A New Look at an Old Question

Peter Linneman

13: The Ethics of Competition: The Unfriendly Critics

George Stigler

12: The Ethics of Competition: The Friendly Economists

George Stigler

11: The Economist as Preacher

George Stigler

10: An Introduction to Privacy in Economics and Politics

George Stigler

9: The Effect of State Maximum Hours Laws on the Employment of Women in 1920

Elisabeth M. Landes

8: A Case Study of the Impacts of Consumer Safety Regulation: The 1973 Mattress Flammability Standard

Peter Linneman

7: A Theory of Primitive Society with Special Reference to Law

Richard Posner

6: Competition Among Pressure Groups for Political Influence

Gary Becker

5: The Effect of the State on the Family

Gary Becker

4: Privacy, Secrecy, and Reputation

Richard Posner

3: Discrimination in HEW: Is the Doctor Sick or Are the Patients Healthy?

George Borjas

2: The Right to Privacy

Richard Posner

1: The Growth of Government

Sam Peltzman