Law professor and CPR member scholar Amy Sinden has a provocative new article takes down the arguments for market-based and privatization solutions to the tragedy of the commons: [A]s academics and policymakers clamor to distance themselves from the now dowdy and stilted fashions of 1970s-style “command-and-control regulation” and to embrace the virtues of the free market, privatization has replaced government intervention as the preferred solution to the tragedy of the commons. Right wing ideologues pump out books, articles, and monographs touting the virtues of “free-market

OIRA's annual draft report on the costs and benefits of regulations is now out. For whatever reason -- cynically, one might assume the election year has something to do with it, or maybe just the lack of an official OIRA administrator while John Graham's replacement is still being sought -- the White House did not use it this year as a vehicle for anti-regulatory shenanigans. No hit list; no new policy on, say, Quality-Adjusted Life Years; nope, nothing of that sort at all.