Suggested Readings: Free-Market Solutions

Bountiful Harvest: Technology, Food Safety, and the Environment
By Thomas R. DeGregori
ISBN: 1-930865-31-7

"Professor DeGregori presents a powerful argument that technology, like art, expresses the creativity of human beings. Being human means creating and using technology. From this correct understanding of the human relationship to technology, DeGregori shows that 'we need not less technology but more intelligent use of it.' Whether we make intelligent use of our creative capacities depends on whether we use them for the betterment of others, our societies, and ourselves."
—Professor Drew L. Kershen, University of Oklahoma College of Law

Cutting Green Tape: Toxic Pollutants, Environmental Regulation, and the Law
Edited by Richard L. Stroup and Roger E. Meiners
ISBN: 0-7658-0618-5

"During my own days of studying economics, I remember how effluent limits were the regulatory norm and how textbook stories about possibly trading pollution rights were met with chuckles or snickers. Yet here we are today trading rights to sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxide emissions. Cutting Green Tape would seem to be the ideal textbook applied to today. Professors Stroup and Meiners have assembled an interesting book that presents a convincing case for the massive inefficiencies in current regulatory schemes.
—Professor Harris Schlesinger, University of Alabama Culverhouse College of Commerce and Business Administration

American Health Care: Government, Market Processes, and the Public Interest
Edited by Roger D. Feldman
ISBN: 0-7658-0676-2

"American Health Care illustrates that careful analysis trumps political rhetoric. This new volume contains some of the country's best thinkers about how private health markets interact with government and politicians. Their excellent analysis of the history, economics, and politics of American health policy helps explain why health-care markets sometimes fail and why government efforts to correct market failures are often worse.
—Robert B. Helms, director of health policy studies, American Enterprise Institute

Mail @ the Millenium: Will the Postal Service Go Private?
Edited by Edward L. Hudgins
ISBN: 1-930865-01-5

"It is essential that the [United States Postal Service}, our government's largest civilian agency, adapt to the challenges of the communication revolution. The collection of carefully researched and wide-ranging analysis presented in this book will assist policy makers in creating both the content and the momentum necessary for genuine postal reform"
—Ruth Y. Goldway, commissioner, Postal Rate Commission