FC: Cato forum on 3/27 on technology affecting law and policy

[Declan McCullagh <declan () well com>]

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Subject: Invitation: 3/27/03 book forum, The Half-Life of Policy Rationales
Date: Tue, 18 Mar 2003 09:27:32 -0500
From: "Wayne Crews" <wcrews () cato org>
To: <declan () well com>

Hi Declan, hoped you might be able to post a note about this forum coming 
up at Cato next week. Thanks for considering!
best
-wayne


The Cato Institute
invites you to a Book Forum

The Half-Life of Policy Rationales
How New Technology Affects Old Policy Issues
(New York University Press, 2003)

featuring the coeditor
Daniel B. Klein, Santa Clara University

with comments by
Jerry Ellig
Acting Director
Office of Policy Planning
Federal Trade Commission

Donald Boudreaux
Chairman
Department of Economics
George Mason University

Robert Atkinson
Director of the Technology and New Economy Project
Progressive Policy Institute

Government heavily regulates consumer product safety, banking, medical 
licensing, highways, auto emissions, postal services, environmental 
protection, electricity, water, and much more. But as technological 
advancement overcomes supposed market failures, the justifications for many 
long-standing, conventional regulatory interventions dissolve. For example, 
through developments such as sensors for auto emissions; smarttolls for 
highways; and quality assurance in medicine, banking, and online commerce, 
the private sector is addressing quality and safety in ways that can exceed 
the capabilities of governmental regulation. Meanwhile, new means of 
producing and delivering electrical, water, postal, and telephone services 
break down the natural-monopoly rationales for government oversight of 
those long-regulated services. Join us for a review of and debate about the 
public policy implications of recent technological breakthroughs.

Thursday, March 27, 2003
11:00 a.m.
(Luncheon to follow)

Cato Book Forums and luncheons are free of charge.
To register, visit www.cato.org, e-mail Krystal Brand at kbrand () cato org,
fax (202) 371-0841, or call (202) 789-5229 by 11:00 a.m., Wednesday, March 26.
News media inquiries only (no registrations), please call (202) 789-5200.
If you can't make it to the Cato Institute, watch this Forum live online at 
www.cato.org.

Cato Institute 1000 Massachusetts Ave., N.W., Washington, D.C. 20001  (202) 
842-0200  www.cato.org




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