Postal Service Worksharing

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Proceedings from the Eleventh Conference on Postal Delivery and Economics in Toledo, Spain were published in booklet form containing a paper written by John Haldi and Bill Olson called “An Evaluation of USPS Worksharing: Postal Revenues and Costs from Workshared Activities.”

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An Evaluation of Postal Service Worksharing: Postal Revenues and Costs from Workshared Activities

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Postal economist Dr. John Haldi and Bill Olson have co-authored a groundbreaking evaluation of Postal Service Worksharing. Their paper contains the first comprehensive study of revenues and costs of the Postal Service generated from upstream activities. It was published in Crew & Kleindorfer, Competitive Transformation of the Postal and Delivery Sector, Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2004, and Read More

An Evaluation of Postal Service Worksharing: Postal Revenues and Costs from Workshared Activities

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Postal economist Dr. John Haldi and Bill Olson have co-authored a groundbreaking evaluation of Postal Service Worksharing. Their paper contains the first comprehensive study of revenues and costs of the Postal Service generated from upstream activities. It will be presented in Toledo, Spain in June 4-7, 2003, at the Eleventh “Conference on Postal and Delivery Economics” of the Center Read More

Making a Bad Law Worse

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Bill Olson and Mark Fitzgibbons wrote an article entitled “Making a Bad Law Worse New York’s Amended Charitable Solicitation Law” published in Philanthropy Monthly, Volume 35, Nos. 1&2.

America: Republic or Democracy?

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Did our founding fathers intend to create a republic or a democracy? A misunderstanding of the original plan leads to all sorts of other errors, yet presidents, congressmen, and federal judges still view America as a democracy, almost never employing the term republic. Is the principal purpose of government to do the will of the people or to prevent the majority from doing injustice and violence Read More

CATO Study: The Power of a President to Rule by Executive Order

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“The problem of presidents’ using executive orders to legislate, usurping the powers of Congress or the states, has grown exponentially with the expansion of government in the 20th century,” William Olson, co-author of a new Cato Institute study on the abuse of executive orders, told the Subcommittee on Legislative and Budget Process of the House Rules Committee today. “This raises fundamental Read More

Testimony on Executive Orders before the House Rules Committee’s Subcommittee on Legislative and Budget Process

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Bill Olson was asked to testify before the House Rules Committee’s Subcommittee on Legislative and Budget Process. The topic of the hearing was “The Impact of Executive Orders on the Legislative Process: Executive Lawmaking?” Bill Olson also submitted answers to questions before the House Rules Committee’s Subcommittee on Legislative and Budget Process.

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