''Regulation'' is a quarterly periodical about policy published by the

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. It was started as a bimonthly magazine in 1977 by the

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and acquired by Cato in 1989. Past editors have included former Supreme Court justice

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, Murray Weidenbaum,

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, and Peter Huber. Peter Van Doren has edited the magazine since 1999. In the late 1970s and early 1980s, the magazine was pivotal in promoting

deregulation Deregulation is the process of removing or reducing state regulations, typically in the economic sphere. It is the repeal of governmental regulation of the economy. It became common in advanced industrial economies in the 1970s and 1980s, as a ...

and the importance of

cost–benefit analysis Cost–benefit analysis (CBA), sometimes also called benefit–cost analysis, is a systematic approach to estimating the strengths and weaknesses of alternatives. It is used to determine options which provide the best approach to achieving benefits ...

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External links

Regulation website

25th anniversary retrospective
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