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2008

Do Government Spending and Tax Rebates Stimulate Growth? (12/18/08)
A Cato Institute Capitol Hill Briefing featuring Daniel J. Mitchell, Senior Fellow, Cato Institute; and Stephen J. Entin, President and Executive Director, Institute for Research on the Economics of Taxation;


Obama's National Security Policy: A New Approach or More of the Same? (12/17/08)
A Cato Institute Capitol Hill Briefing featuring Christopher Preble,Director of Foreign Policy Studies, Cato Institute; and Benjamin Friedman, Research Fellow in Defense and Homeland Security Studies, Cato Institute;


Afghanistan Seven Years Later (12/11/08)
A Cato Institute Policy Forum featuring The Honorable Said T. Jawad, Ambassador of Afghanistan to the United States; Akbar Ahmed, Professor of Islamic Studies at American University; Caroline Wadhams, Senior Policy Analyst at the Center for American Progress; Ted Galen Carpenter, Vice President for Defense and Foreign Policy Studies, Cato Institute; Moderated by Malou Innocent, Foreign Policy Analyst, Cato Institute;


Just Give Us the Data! Prospects for Putting Government Information to Revolutionary New Uses (12/10/08)
A Cato Institute Policy Forum featuring Ed Felten, Professor of Computer Science and Public Affairs and Director of the Center for Information Technology Policy, Princeton University; Gary D. Bass, Founder and Executive Director, OMB Watch; Jerry Brito, Senior Research Fellow, Mercatus Center at George Mason University; Moderated by Jim Harper, Director of Information Policy Studies, Cato Institute


Free to Booze: The 75th Anniversary of the Repeal of Prohibition (12/5/08)
A Cato Institute Policy Forum featuring Michael Lerner, author of Dry Manhattan: Prohibition in New York City; Glen Whitman, author of Strange Brew: Alcohol and Government Monopoly; Asheesh Agarwal, Former Assistant Director of the Federal Trade Commission's Office of Policy Planning; and Radley Balko, Senior Editor, Reason. Moderated by Brandon Arnold, Cato Institute.


Does America's Health Care Sector Produce More Health? (12/5/08)
A Cato Institute Policy Forum featuring Glen Whitman, Associate Professor of Economics, California State University-Northridge; Ezra Klein, Associate editor, The American Prospect; Moderator Michael F. Cannon, Cato Institute.


Cato Institute Policy Perspectives 2008 (12/3/08)
A Cato Institute City Seminar featuring Charles Murray, W. H. Brady Scholar, American Enterprise Institute; Robert A. Levy, Chairman, Cato Institute; and Chip Mellor, President and General Counsel, Institute for Justice.


Whither the Amazon? (12/2/08)
A Cato Institute Policy Forum featuring Blairo Maggi, Governor of Mato Grosso, Brazil; Roger Sedjo, Senior Fellow, Resources for the Future; Moderated by Jerry Taylor, Cato Institute


The Price of Everything: A Parable of Possibility and Prosperity (12/1/08)
A Cato Institute Book Forum featuring the author Russell Roberts, Professor of Economics, George Mason University; with comments by Nick Gillespie, Editor, Reason.tv and Reason.com


Gun Control on Trial (11/24/08)
A Cato Institute Book Forum featuring the author, Brian Doherty, Senior Editor, Reason Magazine, with comments by Christopher Rhee, Partner, Arnold & Porter. Moderated by Tim Lynch, Director, Project on Criminal Justice, Cato Institute


How Nations Prosper: Economic Freedom and Doing Business around the World (11/24/08)
A Cato Institute Book Forum featuring James Gwartney, and Robert Lawson, Coauthors of, Economic Freedom of the World:2008 Annual Report (Fraser Institute and Cato Institute, 2008); with Simeon Djankov, Creator, "Doing Business" (World Bank, 2008); moderated by Ian Vasquez, Director, Center for Global Liberty and Prosperity, Cato Institute


Reflections of a Political Economist: Selected Articles on Government Policies and Processes (11/22/08)
A Cato Institute Book Forum featuring William Niskanen, Chairman Emeritus
and Distinguished Senior Economist, The Cato Institute


Cato Institute Policy Perspectives 2008 (11/21/08)
A Cato Institute City Seminar featuring Jeffrey A. Miron, senior lecturer in economics at Harvard University, and Tucker Carlson, correspondent for MSNBC.


26th Annual Monetary Conference: Lessons from the Subprime Crisis (11/19/08)
A Cato Institute Conference.


Thirty Years of Reform: China's Path to Harmonious Development (11/17-18/08)
A Cato Institute Conference.


Against Intellectual Monopoly (11/10/08)
A Cato Institute Book Forum featuring the coauthor Michele Boldrin, The Joseph G. Hoyt Distinguished Professor of Economics, Washington University in St. Louis; with comments by Robert D. Atkinson, Ph.D., Founder and president, Information Technology and Innovation Foundation; moderated by Jim Harper, Director of Information Policy Studies, Cato Institute


Future Imperfect: Technology and Freedom in an Uncertain World (11/6/08)
A Cato Institute Book Forum featuring the author, David D. Friedman, Professor of Law, Santa Clara University.


The Cult of the Presidency (11/4/08)
A Cato Institute Book Forum. Gene Healy, Vice President of Cato Institute and author of The Cult of the Presidency: America's Dangerous Devotion to Executive Power


Back to Enron: Were the Wrong Lessons Learned for Corporate Governance and Energy Policy? (10/30/08)
A Cato Institute Book Forum featuring Robert L. Bradley Jr., Chairman, Institute for Energy Research and author of Capitalism at Work: Business, Government, and Energy (M & M Scrivener Press, 2008), and William Niskanen, Chairman Emeritus, Cato Institute and editor of After Enron: The Major Lessons for Public Policy (Rowman & Littlefield, 2005).


The State of Freedom in Africa (10/21/08)
A Cato Institute Policy Forum. Tony Leon Former Leader of the Opposition, South African Parliament, Visiting Fellow, Cato Institute; Andrew Mwenda Managing Director, The Independent, Uganda; moderator Marian Tupy Policy Analyst, Cato Institute


Encyclopedia of Libertarianism (10/14/08)
A Cato Institute Book Forum featuring the Editor in Chief, Ronald Hamowy, with comments by Charles Murray, a W. H. Brady Scholar at the American Enterprise Institute; William Galston, Senior Fellow in Governance Studies at the Brookings Institution. Moderated by Jason Kuznicki Research Fellow, Cato Institute.


The Crime of Reason and the Closing of the Scientific Mind (10/10/08)
A Cato Institute Book Forum featuring the author Robert B. Laughlin, Nobel Laureate in Physics and Anne T. and Robert M. Bass Professor of Physics, Stanford University; with comments byThomas Sydnor, Senior Fellow and Director of the Center for the Study of Digital Property at the Progress & Freedom Foundation. Moderated by Jim Harper, Director of Information Policy Studies, Cato Institute.


Real Education: Four Simple Truths for Bringing America's Schools Back to Reality (10/8/08)
A Cato Institute Book Forum featuring the author, Charles Murray, W.H. Brady Scholar, American Enterprise Institute; with comments by Christopher B. Nelson, President, St. John�s College. Moderated by Neal McCluskey, Associate Director, Center for Educational Freedom, Cato Institute.


Global Terror's Central Front: Pakistan and Afghanistan (10/2/08)
A Cato Institute Capitol Hill Briefing featuring Malou Innocent, Foreign Policy Analyst, Cato Institute and Ted Galen Carpenter, Vice President for Defense and Foreign Policy Studies, Cato Institute.


Greatest Emancipations: How the West Abolished Slavery (9/22/08)
A Cato Institute Book Forum featuring the author, Jim Powell Senior Fellow, Cato Institute, and author of The Triumph of Liberty, FDR's Folly, Wilson's War, and Bully Boy


7th Annual Constitution Day (9/17/08)
A Cato Institute Conference.


New Frontiers in Free Trade: Globalization's Future and Asia's Rising Role (9/16/08)
A Cato Institute Book Forum featuring the author Razeen Sally, European Center for International Political Economy with comments by Carlos Primo Braga, World Bank. Moderated by Daniel Griswold, Cato Institute.


Strategic Petroleum Reserve: Reform or Elimination? (9/12/08)
A Cato Institute Capitol Hill Briefing featuring Jerry Taylor, Senior Fellow, Cato Institute, and Steve H. Hanke, Senior Fellow, Cato Institute.


Should No-Knock Police Raids be Rare-or Routine? (9/11/08)
A Cato Institute Policy Forum featuring Cheye Calvo, Mayor, Berwyn Heights, Maryland, Radley Balko, Senior Writer, Reason and author of Overkill: The Rise of Paramilitary Police Raids in America, Peter Christ, Co-founder, Law Enforcement Against Prohibition. Moderated by Tim Lynch, Director, Project on Criminal Justice, Cato Institute.


Red State, Blue State, Rich State, Poor State: Why Americans Vote the Way They Do (9/11/08)
A Cato Institute Book Forum featuring Andrew Gelman, Professor of Statistics and Political Science, Columbia University, Michael P. McDonald, Associate Professor of Public and International Affairs, George Mason University and Non-Resident Senior Fellow, Brookings Institution, and Brink Lindsey, Vice President for Research, Cato Institute and author of The Age of Abundance: How Prosperity Transformed American Politics and Culture. Moderated by Will Wilkinson, Research Fellow, Cato Institute .


The Dirty Dozen: Are They the Worst Supreme Court Cases in the Modern Era? (7/31/08)
A Cato Institute Policy Forum featuring co-author William Mellor, President and General Counsel, Institute for Justice; Ilya Shapiro, Senior Fellow in Constitutional Studies at the Cato Institute and Editor-in-Chief, Cato Supreme Court Review; David Barron, Professor of Law, Harvard University; Doug Kendall, Founder and President, Constitutional Accountability Center. Moderated by Amanda Frost, Assistant Professor of Law, American University.


Escaping Poverty in Sub-Saharan Africa (7/28/08)
A Cato Institute Capitol Hill Briefing featuring Rejoice Ngwenya, Writer and head of the Zimbabwean Coalition for Market & Liberal Solutions, and Marian Tupy, Cato Institute.


Should Congress Lower Tariffs on Imported Shoes? (7/25/08)
A Cato Institute Policy Forum featuring U.S. Rep. Earl Blumenauer, D-Oregon, Ed Gresser, Progressive Policy Institute, and William Hawkins, U.S. Business and Industry Council. Moderated by Daniel T. Griswold, Cato Institute.


One Man's America: The Pleasures and Provocations of Our Singular Nation (7/24/08)
A Cato Institute Book Forum featuring the author, George F. Will, with an introduction by Edward H. Crane, President, Cato Institute.


The FBI Turns 100 (7/23/08)
A Cato Institute Policy Forum featuring John Fox, Historian, Federal Bureau of Investigation, Athan Theoharis, Marquette University and author of The FBI & American Democracy, and John F. Kelly, Investigative Reporter and author of Tainting Evidence: Inside the Scandals at the FBI Lab. Moderated by Tim Lynch, Cato Institute.


McCain and Obama: Comparing Their Economic Platforms (7/15/08)
A Cato Institute Policy Forum.

Featuring Sallie James, Center for Trade Policy Studies, Cato Institute, Dan Mitchell, Cato Institute, and Christian Weller, Center for American Progress.


Securing Economic Growth through Trade Facilitation (7/11/08)
A Cato Institute Capitol Hill Briefing featuring Simeon Djankov, World Bank and Daniel Ikenson, Cato Institute


India: The Emerging Giant (7/2/08)
A Cato Institute Book Forum featuring the author Arvind Panagariya, Jagdish Bhagwati Professor of Indian Political Economy, Columbia University with comments from Swaminathan Aiyar, Research Fellow, Cato Institute.


Trade Facilitation: The New Wave of International Trade Liberalization? (6/26/08)
A Cato Institute Policy Forum featuring Steve Creskoff, Trade Lawyer, Creskoff and Doram LLP; J. Michael Finger, Initial World Bank Coordinator for the Integrated Framework; Bill Lane, Caterpillar, Inc.; and John Wilson, Lead Economist, World Bank. Moderated by Dan Ikenson, Cato Institute.


The Dirty Dozen: How Twelve Supreme Court Cases Radically Expanded Government and Eroded Freedom (6/24/08)
A Cato Institute Capitol Hill Briefing featuring the co author Robert A. Levy, Cato Institute.


Botswana and Mauritius: African Success Stories (6/19/08)
A Cato Institute Policy Forum featuring Lapologang Caesar Lekoa, Ambassador of the Republic of Botswana and Kailash Ruhee, Ambassador of the Republic of Mauritius. Moderated by Marian Tupy, Cato Institute.


Let Them In: The Case for Open Borders (6/18/08)
A Cato Institute Book Forum featuring the author, Jason L. Riley, Wall Street Journal Editorial Board, with comments by Michael Barone, U.S. News & World Report. Moderated by Daniel Griswold, Cato Institute.


Smart Power: Toward a Prudent Foreign Policy for America (6/17/08)
A Cato Institute Book Forum featuring the author Ted Galen Carpenter, Cato Institute with comments by Steven Clemons, New America Foundation and Doug Bandow, American Conservative Defense Alliance.


The Psychology of Evil: The Lucifer Effect in Action (6/12/08)
A Cato Institute Book Forum featuring the author, Philip Zimbardo, Stanford University, with comments by Julian Sanchez, Reason, and Will Wilkinson, Cato Institute.


America: Our Next Chapter (6/12/08)
A Cato Institute Book Forum featuring the author, Senator Chuck Hagel (R-NE), with an introduction by Edward H. Crane, President, Cato Institute.


Globalization and the World's Rising Living Standards (6/6/08)
A Cato Institute Capitol Hill Briefing featuring Johan Norberg, Author, In Defense of Global Capitalism, Senior Fellow, Cato Institute.


China’s Rise: Is Conflict Unavoidable? (5/30/08)
A Cato Institute Capitol Hill Briefing featuring Ted Galen Carpenter, Cato Institute and Justin Logan, Cato Institute.


Carrots and Sticks: Evolving U.S. Economic Policy toward China (5/29/08)
A Cato Institute Capitol Hill Briefing featuring James A. Dorn, Cato Institute and Daniel J. Ikenson, Cato Institute.


Occupational Hazards: Success and Failure in Military Occupation (5/29/08)
A Cato Institute Book Forum featuring the author David M. Edelstein, Assistant Professor, Georgetown University, with comments by Robert M. Perito, U.S. Institute of Peace and Christopher Preble, Cato Institute.


The Housing Crisis: Causes and Cures (5/28/08)
A Cato Institute Capitol Hill Briefing featuring Randal O’Toole, Cato Institute, and Ronald D. Utt, Heritage Foundation.


Relief from Gridlock: Surface Transportation Reauthorization in 2009 (5/27/08)
A Cato Institute Policy Forum featuring Randal O’Toole, Cato Institute, Samuel Staley, Reason Foundation, Greg Cohen, American Highway User Alliance. Moderated by Jerry Taylor, Cato Institute.


The One-Drop Rule in Hawaii? The Akaka Bill and the Future of Race-Based Government (5/21/08)
A Cato Institute Capitol Hill Briefing featuring Jere Krischel, Grassroot Institute of Hawaii, Elaine Willman, Citizens Equal Rights Alliance, Andresen Blom, Research Institute for Hawaii, and Ilya Shapiro, Cato Institute.


Learning the Right Lessons from Iraq (5/16/08)
A Cato Institute Capitol Hill Briefing featuring Christopher Preble, Director of Foreign Policy Studies, Cato Institute, and Benjamin H. Friedman, Research Fellow in Defense and Homeland Security Studies, Cato Institute.


Whatever Happened to Medicare Reform? (5/15/08)
A Cato Institute Policy Forum featuring Thomas R. Saving, Medicare trustee, 2001-2007 and Stuart Guterman, Commonwealth Fund. Moderated by Michael F. Cannon, Cato Institute.


The Rise of the Conservative Legal Movement (5/14/08)
A Cato Institute Book Forum featuring the author, Steven Teles, University of Maryland and Yale University Law School, with comments from Roger Pilon, Cato Institute and Hon. David McIntosh, Mayer, Brown, Rowe & Maw, former Member of Congress (R-IN), Federalist Society Co-Founder. Moderated by Ilya Shapiro.


Georgia's Transformation into a Modern Market Democracy (5/13/08)
A Cato Institute Policy Forum featuring Kakha Bendukidze, Head of the State Chancellery, Georgia, with comments by Andrei Illarionov, Senior Fellow, Cato Institute, and Former Economic Adviser to Russia’s President Vladimir Putin. Moderated by Ian Vásquez, Cato Institute.


Ain't My America: The Long, Noble History of Antiwar Conservatism and Middle-American Anti-Imperialism (5/8/08)
A Cato Institute Book Forum featuring the author Bill Kauffman, with comments by Michael Tomasky, Editor, Guardian America. Moderated by David Boaz, Cato Institute.


Taxation in Colonial America (5/8/08)
A Cato Institute Book Forum featuring the author Alvin Rabushka, Hoover Institution at Stanford University. Moderated by Chris Edwards, Cato Institute.


The REAL ID Rebellion: Whither the National ID Law? (5/7/08)
A Cato Institute Policy Forum featuring Mark Sanford, Republican Governor of South Carolina and Jon Tester, Democratic U.S. Senator from Montana. Moderated by Jim Harper, Cato Institute.


The Dirty Dozen: How Twelve Supreme Court Cases Radically Expanded Government and Eroded Freedom (5/6/08)
A Cato Institute Book Forum featuring the authors Robert A. Levy, Senior Fellow in Constitutional Studies, Cato Institute, and William Mellor, President and General Counsel, Institute for Justice, with comments by Lyle Denniston, Supreme Court Correspondent for SCOTUSblog. Moderated by Roger Pilon, Cato Institute.


Is the Grass Really Greener? A Look at International Health Care Systems (5/5/08)
A Cato Institute Capitol Hill Briefing featuring Michael Tanner, Senior Fellow, Cato Institute, Regina Herzlinger, Nancy R. McPherson Professor of Business Administration Chair, Harvard Business School, and Hugh Waters, Associate Professor, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.


Nudge: Improving Decisions about Health, Wealth, and Happiness (5/1/08)
A Cato Institute Book Forum featuring the coauthor Cass Sunstein, University of Chicago Law School, with comments by Terrence Chorvat, George Mason University Law School and Will Wilkinson, Cato Institute.


Bush's Law: The Remaking of American Justice (4/23/08)
A Cato Institute Book Forum featuring the author Eric Lichtblau, New York Times. Moderated by Timothy Lynch, Cato Institute.


What to Do about Self-Funded Campaigns (4/21/08)
A Cato Institute Capitol Hill Briefing featuring John Samples, Director, Center for Representative Government, Cato Institute, and Ilya Shapiro, Senior Fellow, Center for Constitutional Studies and Editor-in-Chief, Cato Supreme Court Review, Cato Institute.


Highly Skilled Immigrants: Opening the Doors to Prosperity (4/17/08)
A Cato Institute Capitol Hill Briefing featuring Senator Judd Gregg (R-NH) and Daniel Griswold, Director, Center for Trade Policy Studies, Cato Institute.


Markets vs. Standards: Debating the Future of American Education (4/16/08)
A Cato Institute Policy Forum featuring Sol Stern, Senior Fellow, Manhattan Institute; Gary Huggins, Director, Commission on No Child Left Behind, Aspen Institute; Andrew Coulson, Director, Center for Educational Freedom, Cato Institute; and John Merrifield, Professor of Economics, University of Texas at San Antonio. Moderated by Ben Wildavsky, Senior Fellow in Research and Policy, Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation.


Trade-Offs: Why the Colombia FTA Should Pass Regardless of TAA (4/11/08)
A Cato Institute Capitol Hill Briefing featuring Daniel T. Griswold, Director, Center for Trade Policy Studies, Cato Institute, and Sallie James, Trade Policy Analyst, Cato Institute.


America's Drive for Energy Independence: Fueling the Oil Price Boom? (4/9/08)
A Cato Institute Policy Forum featuring A. F. Alhajji, Associate Professor at the College of Business Administration, Ohio Northern University. Moderated by Jerry Taylor, Cato Institute.


Let Failing African Governments Collapse: A Radical Solution to Underdevelopment (4/2/08)
A Cato Institute Policy Forum featuring: Edward N. Luttwak, Senior Associate, Center for Strategic and International Studies; George Ayittey, Professor of Economics, American University; and Mauro De Lorenzo, Resident Fellow, American Enterprise Institute. Moderated by Marian Tupy, Policy Analyst, Cato Institute.


Economic Collapse and Political Repression in Robert Mugabe's Zimbabwe (3/24/08)
A Cato Institute Policy Forum featuring: Walter H. Kansteiner, Principal, Scowcroft Group Former Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs; Carol Thompson, Deputy Assistant Secretary, Bureau of African Affairs, Department of State; and Richard Tren, Director, Africa Fighting Malaria. Moderated by Marian Tupy, Cato Institute.


Why the Supreme Court Matters in a Presidential Election Year (3/19/08)
A Cato Institute Book Forum featuring the author Patrick Garry, University of South Dakota Law School; with comments by Roger Pilon, Cato Institute, and Abe Krash, Georgetown University Law Center and Arnold & Porter LLP; moderated by Ilya Shapiro, Cato Institute.


Gusher of Lies: The Dangerous Delusions of "Energy Independence" (3/18/08)
A Cato Institute Book Forum featuring Robert Bryce, Managing Editor, Energy Tribune. Moderated by Jerry Taylor, Cato Institute.


Hayekian Insights on Economic Development (3/18/08)
A Cato Institute Policy Forum featuring William Easterly, Professor of Economics, New York University, with comments by Arvind Subramanian, Senior Fellow, Peterson Institute for International Economics. Moderator Ian Vásquez, Cato Institute.


Reclaiming Conservatism: How a Great American Political Movement Got Lost — And How It Can Find Its Way Back (3/13/08)
A Cato Institute Book Forum featuring the author, Mickey Edwards, Former Member of Congress; Former Chairman, American Conservative Union; Lecturer, Princeton University; with comments by Edward Crane, President, Cato Institute.


The Venezuelan Student Movement for Liberty (3/12/08)
A Cato Institute Policy Forum featuring: Yon Goicoechea, Former General Secretary, Venezuelan Student Parliament; Gustavo Tovar, Author, Estudiantes por la libertad (Students for Liberty) (Caracas: El Nacional, 2007); and Gerver Torres, Senior Scientist, Gallup. Moderated by Ian Vásquez, Cato Institute.


Throes of Democracy: The American Civil War Era, 1829-1877 (3/11/08)
A Cato Institute Book Forum featuring the author Walter A. McDougall, Professor of History, University of Pennsylvania; with comments by Herman Belz, Professor of History, University of Maryland; and Anne Sarah Rubin, Associate Professor of History, University of Maryland Baltimore County.


Supreme Neglect: How to Revive Constitutional Protection for Private Property (3/6/08)
A Cato Institute Book Forum featuring the author, Richard A. Epstein James Parker Hall Distinguished Service Professor of Law, University of Chicago, with comments by J. Peter Byrne, Professor of Law, Georgetown University Law Center.


Freeing SpeechNow: Free Speech and Association vs. Campaign Finance Regulation (3/5/08)
A Cato Institute Policy Forum featuring: Steve Simpson, Senior Attorney, Institute for Justice; David Keating, President, SpeechNow.org; and Michael Malbin, Executive Director, Campaign Finance Institute.


Market Reforms and Reelection: Are They Compatible? (3/4/08)
A Cato Institute Policy Forum featuring Johnny Munkhammar, Senior Fellow, European Enterprise Institute, with comments by Dick Armey, Former House Majority Leader, Chairman, FreedomWorks.


What to Do about Climate Change (2/29/08)
A Cato Institute Capitol Hill Briefing featuring Indur Goklany, author of The Improving State of the World and a new Cato study, “What to Do about Climate Change,” and delegate to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, and Patrick J. Michaels, Senior Fellow in Environmental Studies, Cato Institute, and contributing author and reviewer of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.


Race and the State (2/27/08)
A Cato Institute Policy Forum featuring Bruce Bartlett, Author, Wrong on Race: The Democratic Party's Buried Past and Casey Lartigue, President, Lartigue Group.


Human Organs for Sale? (2/21/08)
A Cato Institute Policy Forum. Featuring: Arthur Matas, Professor of Surgery; Director, Kidney Transplant Program, University of Minnesota, Immediate Past President, American Society of Transplant Surgeons; Francis Delmonico, Professor of Surgery, Harvard Medical School, Medical Director, The Transplantation Society; World Health Organization; Benjamin Hippen, Transplant Nephrologist, Carolinas Medical Center, At-Large Member of the United Network for Organ Sharing Ethics Committee; and Samuel Crowe, Senior Policy Analyst, The President's Council on Bioethics.


Twilight at Monticello: The Final Years of Thomas Jefferson (2/19/08)
A Cato Institute Book Forum featuring the author, Alan Pell Crawford.


Who Are the Real Free Traders in Congress? (2/14/08)
A Cato Institute Capitol Hill Briefing featuring Sen. Richard Lugar, (R-IN), and Daniel Griswold, Director, Center for Trade Policy Studies, Cato Institute.


20th Annual Benefactor Summit (2/6-10/08)
A Cato Institute Conference. By invitation only.


Economic Stimulus: Facts and Fiction (2/4/08)
A Cato Institute Capitol Hill Briefing featuring Dan Mitchell, Senior Fellow, Cato Institute and Alan Reynolds, Senior Fellow, Cato Institute.


NATO's New Troubles: Afghanistan, Kosovo and the Future of the Alliance (1/31/08)
A Cato Institute Policy Forum featuring Stanley Kober, Research Fellow in Foreign Policy Studies, Cato Institute; Susan Eisenhower, Chairman Emeritus, The Eisenhower Institute; Lawrence S. Kaplan, Emeritus Director of the Lemnitzer Center for NATO and European Union Studies, Kent State University; Jeremy Shapiro, Fellow and Director of Research, Center on the United States and Europe, The Brookings Institution.


The Best-Laid Plans: Congress Should Repeal Planning Requirements in Federal Surface Transportation Law (1/25/08)
A Cato Institute Capitol Hill Briefing featuring Randal O’Toole, Senior Fellow, Cato Institute, and author of The Best-Laid Plans: How Government Planning Harms Your Quality of Life, Your Pocketbook, and Your Future, and Ronald Utt, Senior Research Fellow, Heritage Foundation.


The Mind of the Market: The Case for Capitalism from an Evolutionary Perspective (1/11/08)
A Cato Institute Book Forum featuring Michael Shermer.


McCain: The Myth of a Maverick (1/8/08)
A Cato Institute Book Forum featuring the author, Matt Welch, Editor-in-Chief, Reason Magazine, and Lance Tarrance, Jr., Former Senior Strategist, McCain for President.

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