The article discusses the various articles published within the issue is presented, including the regulatory history of the cable television industry by Stanley M. Besen and Robert W. Crandall, an article about the effects of the Airline Deregulation Act of October 1978 by Elizabeth E. Bailey and John C. Panzar, and an article on the abolition of conventional economic regulation and the sustained support for social regulation by Barry R. Weingast and Michael E. Levine.