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2010
Obama's Fiscal Commission and the GOP Budget Agenda (12/16/10)
A Cato Institute Capitol Hill Briefing featuring Chris Edwards, Director of Tax Policy Studies, Cato Institute; Daniel J. Mitchell, Senior Fellow, Cato Institute; Michael D. Tanner, Senior Fellow, Cato Institute; and Christopher A. Preble, Director of Foreign Policy Studies, Cato Institute. Moderated by Brandon Arnold, Director of Government Affairs, Cato Institute.
The U.S. Generalized System of Preferences: Helping the Poor, But at What Price? (12/14/10)
A Cato Institute Policy Forum featuring Sallie James, Trade Policy Analyst, Cato Institute; Edward Gresser, Director, Project on Trade and Global Markets, Democratic Leadership Council; and Chakarin Komolsiri, Minister-Counsellor, Royal Thai Embassy. Moderated by Daniel Griswold, Director, Center for Trade Policy Studies, Cato Institute.
Spending Cuts or Devaluation? Resolving the Financial Crisis in the Baltic Countries (12/8/10)
A Cato Institute Policy Forum featuring Anders Aslund, Senior Fellow, Peterson Institute for International Economics; and Desmond Lachman, Resident Fellow, American Enterprise Institute; moderated by Marian L. Tupy, Policy Analyst, Center for Global Liberty and Prosperity.
Banking and Insurance in the 112th Congress (12/7/10)
A Cato Institute Policy Forum featuring Robert Detlefsen, Vice President of Public Policy, National Association of Mutual Insurance Companies; Lars Powell, Whitbeck-Beyer Chair of Insurance and Financial Services, University of Arkansas; Lawrence H. Mirel, Partner, Wiley Rein LLP; Stephen Pociask, Chief Economist, American Consumer Institute; Eli Lehrer, Director, Center on Finance, Insurance, and Real Estate, Heartland Institute; Panel II: Banking ; Mark Oesterle, Chief Counsel for the Minority, U.S. Senate Banking Committee; Joi Sheffield, Former Banking Counsel to Sen. Tim Johnson; Bert Ely, Principal, Ely & Company, Inc.; Mark Calabria, Director, Financial Regulation Studies, Cato Institute.
Cato Institute Policy Perspectives 2010 (12/1/10)
A Cato Institute City Seminar featuring Edward H. Crane, President, Cato Institute; Gov. Gary Johnson (R-NM, 1995-2003); Michael F. Cannon, Director of Health Policy Studies, Cato Institute; Daniel J. Mitchell, Senior Fellow, Cato Institute; and Tucker Carlson, Senior Fellow, Cato Institute, and Editor in Chief, The Daily Caller.
Profiting from Ivory Towers? (11/30/10)
A Cato Institute Policy Forum featuring Richard Bishirjian, President, Yorktown University; Robert J. Shapiro, Chairman and Co-founder, Sonecon LLC; Ben Miller, Policy Analyst, Education Sector; Neal McCluskey, Associate Director, Center for Educational Freedom, Cato Institute; moderated by Adam Schaeffer, Policy Analyst, Center for Educational Freedom.
Deficits and Defense (11/19/10)
A Cato Institute Policy Forum featuring Representative Barney Frank (D-Massachusetts); Loren B. Thompson, Chief Operating Officer, Lexington Institute; and Benjamin Friedman, Research Fellow in Defense and Homeland Security Studies, Cato Institute; moderated by Christopher Preble, Director of Foreign Policy Studies, Cato Institute.
28th Annual Monetary Conference (11/18/10)
A Cato Institute Conference featuring Charles Plosser, President,
Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia; Carmen M. Reinhart, Professor of Economics, University of Maryland; Jerry L. Jordan, Former President, Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland; George S. Tavlas, Director-General, Bank of Greece; John B. Taylor, Professor of Economics, Stanford University; and Manuel Sánchez, Vice Governor, Banco de México.
Is Taxpayer Financing of Campaigns Constitutional? (11/17/10)
A Cato Institute Policy Forum featuring William Maurer, Attorney, Institute for Justice; and Craig Holman, Government Affairs Lobbyist, Public Citizen; moderated by John Samples, Director, Center for Representative Government, Cato Institute.
Alchemists of Loss: How Modern Finance and Government Intervention Crashed the Financial System (11/16/10)
A Cato Institute Book Forum featuring the authors Kevin Dowd, Pensions Institute, Cass Business School, City University London; and Martin Hutchinson, The Bear's Lair; with comments by Anthony Sanders, George Mason University; moderated by Mark Calabria, Director, Financial Regulation Studies, Cato Institute.
The Future of Public Transit: What Is the Role of the Federal Government? (11/10/10)
A Cato Institute Capitol Hill Briefing featuring William Millar, President, American Public Transportation Association; and Randal O'Toole, Senior Fellow, Cato Institute; moderated by Kurt Couchman, Manager of Government Affairs, Cato Institute.
The Future of Public Transit: What Is the Role of the Federal Government? (11/10/10)
A Cato Institute Policy Forum featuring William Millar, President, American Public Transportation Association; and Randal O'Toole, Senior Fellow, Cato Institute; moderated by William Niskanen, Distinguished Senior Economist, Cato Institute.
Don't Vote It Just Encourages the Bastards (11/3/10)
A Cato Institute Book Forum featuring P. J. O'Rourke, H. L. Mencken Research Fellow, Cato Institute.
Cato Institute Policy Perspectives 2010 (10/29/10)
A Cato Institute City Seminar featuring Edward H. Crane, President, Cato Institute; John Samples, Director of Center for Representative Government, Cato Institute; Sallie James, Trade Policy Analyst, Cato Institute; and John McWhorter, Professor, The Languages of America, Columbia University, Contributing Editor, The New Republic and City Journal.
Birthright Citizenship and the Battle over Illegal Immigration (10/25/10)
A Cato Institute Capitol Hill Briefing featuring Daniel Griswold, Director, Center for Trade Policy Studies, Cato Institute; and Margaret Stock, Adjunct professor of political science, University of Alaska — Anchorage; moderated by Stuart Anderson, Executive Director, National Foundation for American Policy, and adjunct scholar, Cato Institute.
Robert A. Heinlein: In Dialogue with His Century (10/21/10)
A Cato Institute Book Forum featuring the author William H. Patterson, Jr., Editor and publisher, The Heinlein Journal; moderated by David Boaz, Executive Vice President, Cato Institute.
James Madison Rules America: The Constitutional Origins of Congressional Partisanship (10/14/10)
A Cato Institute Book Forum featuring the author William F. Connelly, Jr., John K. Boardman Politics Professor, Washington and Lee University; with comments by W. Lee Rawls, National War College; moderated by John Samples, Director, Center for Representative Government, Cato Institute.
Cato Institute Policy Perspectives 2010
Featuring P.J. O'Rourke (10/14/10)
A Cato Institute City Seminar.
Cato Institute Policy Perspectives 2010
Featuring P.J. O'Rourke (10/13/10)
A Cato Institute City Seminar.
Congress Should Account for Excess Burden of Taxation (10/13/10)
A Cato Institute Policy Forum featuring Christopher J. Conover, Center for Health Policy and Inequalities Research, Duke University; and Douglas Holtz-Eakin, President, American Action Forum, and Former Director, Congressional Budget Office; moderated by Michael F. Cannon, Director of Health Policy Studies, Cato Institute.
Power Grab: European Integration in the Post-Democratic Age (10/8/10)
A Cato Institute Policy Forum featuring Frits Bolkestein, Former EU Commissioner for Internal Market and Services; John R. Gillingham, Board of Curators Professor, University of Missouri-St. Louis; and Angelos Pangratis, Deputy Head of the EU Delegation to the United States; moderated by Marian Tupy, Policy Analyst, Center for Global Liberty and Prosperity, Cato Institute.
You Know I'm Right: More Prosperity, Less Government (10/7/10)
A Cato Institute Book Forum featuring the author Michelle Caruso-Cabrera, Anchor and reporter, CNBC; co-host of the network's Power Lunch program and former co-anchor of Worldwide Exchange, CNBC's first global daily news program; and Dan Mitchell, Senior fellow, Cato Institute, and co-author of Global Tax Revolution.
Cato Institute Book Forum and Luncheon featuring P.J. O'Rourke (10/7/10)
A Cato Institute City Seminar.
Why Africa Is Poor and What Africans Can Do about It (10/6/10)
A Cato Institute Book Forum featuring the author Greg Mills, Director, Brenthurst Foundation, South Africa; with comments by Marian L. Tupy, Policy Analyst, Center for Global Liberty and Prosperity, Cato Institute; moderated by Ian Vásquez, Director, Center for Global Liberty and Prosperity, Cato Institute.
Rethinking Biofuels Policy (9/30/10)
A Cato Institute Capitol Hill Briefing featuring Harry de Gorter, Visiting Fellow, Cato Institute, and Professor, Department of Applied Economics and Management, Cornell University; Kate McMahon, Biofuels Campaign Coordinator, Friends of the Earth; moderated by Kurt Couchman, Manager of Government Affairs, Cato Institute.
The New Road to Serfdom: A Letter of Warning to America (9/29/10)
A Cato Institute Book Forum featuring the author, Daniel Hannan, Member of the European Parliament; and moderated by David Boaz, Executive Vice President, Cato Institute.
The Case for Business in Developing Economies (9/28/10)
A Cato Institute Book Forum featuring the author Ann Bernstein, Founding Director, Centre for Development and Enterprise (Johannesburg, South Africa); with comments by Clive Crook, Senior Editor, The Atlantic, and commentator, Financial Times; moderated by Ian Vásquez, Director, Center for Global Liberty and Prosperity, Cato Institute.
Cato Club 200 Retreat (9/23-26/10)
A Cato Institute Conference. By invitation only.
Recording the Police: Is Citizen Journalism against the Law? (9/22/10)
A Cato Institute Policy Forum featuring Neill Franklin, Executive Director, Law Enforcement Against Prohibition; Joseph I. Cassilly, State's Attorney, Harford County, Maryland; and David Rittgers , Legal Policy Analyst, Cato Institute; moderated by Tim Lynch, Director, Project on Criminal Justice, Cato Institute.
The Right to Earn a Living (9/20/10)
A Cato Institute Book Forum featuring Timothy Sandefur, Principal Attorney, Pacific Legal Foundation; David E. Bernstein, Foundation Professor of Law, George Mason University School of Law; and Clark Neily, Senior Attorney, Institute for Justice; moderated by Roger Pilon, Vice President for Legal Affairs, Cato Institute.
The Upcoming Supreme Court Term and the Future of Economic Liberty (9/17/10)
A Cato Institute Capitol Hill Briefing featuring Timothy Sandefur, Adjunct Scholar, Cato Institute, Principal Attorney, Pacific Legal Foundation, and author, The Right to Earn a Living: Economic Freedom and the Law; and Ilya Shapiro, Senior Fellow in Constitutional Studies, Cato Institute, and Editor-in-Chief, Cato Supreme Court Review; moderated by Brandon Arnold, Director of Government Affairs, Cato Institute.
9th Annual Constitution Day Conference (9/16/10)
A Cato Institute Conference.
Give Us Liberty: A Tea Party Manifesto (9/14/10)
A Cato Institute Book Forum featuring Dick Armey, Chairman, FreedomWorks, Former House Majority Leader, and Main Author of the Contract with America; and Matt Kibbe, President and CEO, FreedomWorks, Former Director of the Federal Budget Policy, U.S. Chamber of Commerce; moderated by Roger Pilon, Vice President for Legal Affairs, Cato Institute.
The Service Revolution in South Asia (9/8/10)
A Cato Institute Book Forum featuring the editor and chief author Ejaz Ghani, Economic Advisor, South Asia Poverty Reduction and Economic Management, World Bank; with comments by Swaminathan S. Anklesaria Aiyar, Research Fellow, Center for Global Liberty and Prosperity, Cato Institute and columnist for the Times of India; moderated by Daniel Griswold, Director, Center for Trade Policy Studies, Cato Institute.
Empire for Liberty: A History of American Imperialism from Benjamin Franklin to Paul Wolfowitz (9/1/10)
A Cato Institute Book Forum featuring the author Richard Immerman, Professor of History and Marvin Wachman Director, Center for the Study of Force and Diplomacy, Temple University; Robert Kagan, Senior Associate, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace; and Derek Leebaert, Partner, MAP AG; moderated by Christopher A. Preble, Director of Foreign Policy Studies, Cato Institute.
The Real Impact of the New Health Care Law (8/4/10)
A Cato Institute Capitol Hill Briefing featuring Michael D. Tanner, Senior Fellow, Cato Institute, author, "Bad Medicine: The Real Costs and Consequences of the New Health Care Law," and coauthor, Healthy Competition: What's Holding Back Health Care and How to Free It; moderated by Kurt Couchman,
Manager of Government Affairs, Cato Institute.
Are Liberty and Equality Compatible? (8/3/10)
A Cato Institute Book Forum featuring the dueling authors Jan Narveson, University of Waterloo; and
James P. Sterba, University of Notre Dame; moderated by David Boaz, Executive Vice President, Cato Institute.
Strategic Counterterrorism: The Signals We Send (7/29/10)
A Cato Institute Capitol Hill Briefing featuring Jim Harper, Director of Information Policy Studies, Cato Institute, and co-editor, Terrorizing Ourselves: Why U.S. Counterterrorism Policy Is Failing and How to Fix It; and Joshua A. Geltzer, Author, U.S. Counter-Terrorism Strategy and al-Qaeda: Signalling and the Terrorist World-View. Moderated by Brandon Arnold, Director of Government Affairs, Cato Institute.
Union Influence on Public Policy (7/28/10)
A Cato Institute Policy Forum featuring John Fund, Political Columnist, Wall Street Journal; Armand Thieblot, President, A. J. Thieblot & Son/NCSDO; John Samples, Director of the Center for Representative Government, Cato Institute; moderated by Chris Edwards, Director of Tax Policy Studies, Cato Institute.
Cato University (7/25-30/10)
A Cato Institute Conference.
The Implications of the U.S.-India Nuclear Agreement (7/22/10)
A Cato Institute Capitol Hill Briefing featuring Ted Galen Carpenter, Vice President for Defense and Foreign Policy Studies, Cato Institute; Henry D. Sokolski, Executive Director, Nonproliferation Policy Education Center; and Stephen P. Cohen, Senior Fellow in Foreign Policy Studies, Brookings Institution.
The Politics and Law of Immigration (7/21/10)
A Cato Institute Policy Forum.
Featuring Daniel Griswold, Director, Center for Trade Policy Studies, Cato Institute; Tim Lynch, Director, Project on Criminal Justice, Cato Institute; and Mark Krikorian, Executive Director, Center for Immigration Studies; moderated by Gene Healy, Vice President, Cato Institute.
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What to Do about North Korea? (7/14/10)
A Cato Institute Policy Forum featuring Stephen Linton, Chairman and Founder, Eugene Bell Foundation; Karin J. Lee, Executive Director, The National Committee on North Korea; Doug Bandow, Senior Fellow, Cato Institute; moderated by Ted Galen Carpenter, Vice President for Defense and Foreign Policy Studies, Cato Institute.
Is the Electoral College Obsolete? (7/8/10)
A Cato Institute Policy Forum featuring Tara Ross, Author, Enlightened Democracy: The Case for the Electoral College; and John R. Koza, originator of the National Popular Vote Plan; moderated by Roger Pilon, Vice President for Legal Affairs, Cato Institute.
Using Work Visas to Control the Border (7/1/10)
A Cato Institute Capitol Hill Briefing featuring Rep. Jeff Flake, (R-AZ); and Daniel Griswold, Director, Center for Trade Policy Studies, Cato Institute; moderated by Stuart Anderson, Adjunct Scholar, Cato Institute.
Exporting the Bomb: Technology Transfer and the Spread of Nuclear Weapons (6/22/10)
A Cato Institute Book Forum featuring the author Matthew Kroenig, Assistant Professor of Government, Georgetown University; Charles Glaser, Professor of Political Science and Director of the Institute for Security and Conflict Studies, George Washington University; Micah Zenko, Fellow for Conflict Prevention, Council on Foreign Relations; moderated by Justin Logan, Associate Director of Foreign Policy Studies, Cato Institute.
The Military's Role in Counterterrorism (6/18/10)
A Cato Institute Capitol Hill Briefing featuring Christopher A. Preble, Director of Foreign Policy Studies, Cato Institute, and co-editor, Terrorizing Ourselves: Why U.S. Counterterrorism Policy Is Failing and How to Fix It; and Paul R. Pillar, Professor and Director of Graduate Studies for the Security Studies Program in the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University.
More Guns, Less Crime: Understanding Crime and Gun Control Laws (6/17/10)
A Cato Institute Book Forum featuring the author John R. Lott, Jr.; with comments from Paul Helmke, President, Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence; and Jeff Snyder, Attorney and Author, Nation of Cowards: Essays on the Ethics of Gun Control (Accurate Press, 2001). Moderated by Tim Lynch, Director, Project on Criminal Justice, Cato Institute.
Fault Lines: How Hidden Fractures Still Threaten the World Economy (6/16/10)
A Cato Institute Book Forum featuring the author Raghuram Rajan, Professor of Finance, University of Chicago, and former Chief Economist, International Monetary Fund; with comments by Jon Hilsenrath, Chief Economics Correspondent, Wall Street Journal; and Carmen Reinhart, Professor of Economics, University of Maryland, and Co-author, This Time Is Different. Moderated by Ian Vásquez, Director, Center for Global Liberty and Prosperity, Cato Institute.
The New Assault on Free Speech (6/15/10)
A Cato Institute Capitol Hill Briefing featuring Bradley A. Smith, Chairman, Center for Competitive Politics, and former Chairman, Federal Election Commission; William McGinley of Counsel, Patton Boggs LLP; and John Samples, Director, Center for Representative Government, Cato Institute
Sudan after the Elections: Implications for the Future and American Policy Options (6/11/10)
A Cato Institute Policy Forum featuring Sean Brooks, Save Darfur Coalition; Marc Gustafson, Marshall Scholar, Oxford University; Jon Temin,
U.S. Institute for Peace; moderated by Justin Logan, Associate Director of Foreign Policy Studies, Cato Institute.
Social Security: A Fresh Look at Policy Alternatives (6/7/10)
A Cato Institute Capitol Hill Briefing featuring Jagadeesh Gokhale, Senior Fellow, Cato Institute; Former Rep. Jim Kolbe, (R-AZ) Senior Transatlantic Fellow, The German Marshall Fund of the United States; and Former Rep. Charles Stenholm (D-TX), Senior Policy Advisor, Olsson Frank Weeda PC.
How to Think about Capital Gains Taxation (6/3/10)
A Cato Institute Capitol Hill Briefing featuring Daniel J. Mitchell, Senior Fellow, Cato Institute; and Richard W. Rahn, Senior Fellow, Cato Institute, and Chairman, Institute for Global Economic Growth.
National Education Standards: Hopeful Change or Hollow Promise? (6/2/10)
A Cato Institute Policy Forum featuring Sandra Boyd, Vice President, Strategic Communications and Outreach, Achieve, Inc.; Lindsey Burke, Policy Analyst, Heritage Foundation; Michael Petrilli, Vice President for National Programs & Policy, Thomas B. Fordham Institute; and Neal McCluskey, Associate Director, Center for Educational Freedom, Cato Institute; moderated by Adam Schaeffer, Policy Analyst, Center for Educational Freedom, Cato Institute.
Social Security: A Fresh Look at Policy Alternatives (5/27/10)
A Cato Institute Book Forum featuring the author Jagadeesh Gokhale of the Cato Institute; with comments by Andrew Biggs from the American Enterprise Institute; and Eugene Steuerle of the Urban Institute.
Does Homeland Security Work? Evaluating DHS's Efforts to Make Us Safer (5/25/10)
A Cato Institute Capitol Hill Briefing featuring Benjamin H. Friedman Research Fellow in Defense and Homeland Security Studies, Cato Institute; co-editor, Terrorizing Ourselves: Why U.S. Counterterrorism Policy Is Failing and How to Fix It; and John Mueller, Woody Hayes Chair of National Security Studies, Mershon Center, Ohio State University; author, Atomic Obsession: Nuclear Alarmism from Hiroshima to Al Qaeda, and Overblown: How Politicians and the Terrorism Industry Inflate National Security Threats, and Why We Believe Them; co-author with Mark G. Stewart, Terror, Security, and Money: Balancing the Risks, Benefits, and Costs of Homeland Security (forthcoming).
Terrorizing Ourselves: Why U.S. Counterterrorism Policy Is Failing and How to Fix It (5/24/10)
A Cato Institute Book Forum featuring Benjamin Friedman, Research Fellow in Defense and Homeland Security Studies, Cato Institute; Rick "Ozzie" Nelson, Director of the Homeland Security and Counterterrorism Program, Center for Strategic and International Studies; and Jim Harper, Director of Information Policy Studies, Cato Institute; moderated by Christopher Preble, Director of Foreign Policy Studies, Cato Institute.
Updating ECPA: An Electronic Privacy Law for the 21st Century (5/21/10)
A Cato Institute Capitol Hill Briefing featuring Julian Sanchez, Research Fellow, Cato Institute; Will DeVries, Policy Counsel, Google; and Greg Nojeim,
Senior Counsel and Director of the Project on Freedom, Security and Technology, Center for Democracy and Technology.
The Rational Optimist: How Prosperity Evolves (5/20/10)
A Cato Institute Book Forum featuring the author, Matt Ridley; with comments by Robin Hanson, Associate Professor of Economics, George Mason University. Moderated by Brink Lindsey, Vice President for Research, Cato Institute.
Libertarianism, from A to Z (5/18/10)
A Cato Institute Book Forum featuring the author Jeffrey A. Miron, Senior Fellow, Cato Institute, Senior Lecturer in Economics, Harvard University; with comments by Tom G. Palmer, Vice President, Atlas Foundation,
Author, Realizing Freedom: Libertarian Theory, History, and Practice.
Overdose: A Film about the Next Financial Crisis (5/17/10)
A Cato Institute Film Premiere. Narrated by Johan Norberg, Senior Fellow, Cato Institute and Author, Financial Fiasco: How America's Infatuation with Home Ownership and Easy Money Created the Economic Crisis.
Slovakia at the Crossroads of Reform (5/17/10)
A Cato Institute Conference.
Europe's Economic Crisis and the Future of the Euro (5/11/10)
A Cato Institute Policy Forum featuring Simeon Djankov, Minister of Finance and Deputy Prime Minister, Bulgaria; with comments by Steve Hanke, Senior Fellow, Cato Institute and Professor of Applied Economics, Johns Hopkins University. Moderated by Ian Vasquez, Director, Center for Global Liberty and Prosperity, Cato Institute.
ObamaCare: Historic, but Is It Constitutional? (5/5/10)
A Cato Institute Policy Forum featuring Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-UT); Roger Pilon, Vice President for Legal Affairs, Cato Institute. Moderated by David Boaz, Executive Vice President of the Cato Institute.
Policing for Profit: The Abuse of Civil Asset Forfeiture (4/28/10)
A Cato Institute Policy Forum featuring Scott Bullock, Senior Attorney, Institute for Justice; and Marian R. Williams, Department of Government and Justice Studies, Appalachian State University; with comments by Scott Burns, Executive Director, National District Attorneys Association. Moderated by Tim Lynch, Director, Project on Criminal Justice, Cato Institute.
The Struggle to Limit Government in the Modern Era (4/28/10)
A Cato Institute Capitol Hill Briefing featuring Rep. James Sensenbrenner (R-WI) and John Samples, Director, Center for Representative Government, Cato Institute, and author, The Struggle to Limit Government.
Should Immigration Reform Include a National ID? (4/23/10)
A Cato Institute Capitol Hill Briefing featuring Jim Harper, Director of Information Policy Studies, Cato Institute; and Christopher Calabrese, Legislative Counsel, American Civil Liberties Union.
National Curriculum Standards or Local Control: The Arguments and the Evidence (4/16/10)
A Cato Institute Capitol Hill Briefing featuring Rep. Rob Bishop (R-UT), Chairman, Congressional Western Caucus, and former high school teacher; and Neal McCluskey, Associate Director, Center for Educational Freedom, Cato Institute, and author, Feds in the Classroom: How Big Government Corrupts, Cripples, and Compromises American Education.
When Does Rail Transit Make Sense? (4/9/10)
A Cato Institute Capitol Hill Briefing featuring Randal O'Toole, Senior Fellow, Cato Institute, and author, Gridlock: Why We're Stuck in Traffic and What to Do about It; and Ronald Utt, Herbert and Joyce Morgan Senior Research Fellow, Thomas A. Roe Institute for Economic Policy Studies, Heritage Foundation.
Putting Politics above Markets: A Greek Tragedy (4/8/10)
A Cato Institute Policy Forum featuring Takis Michas, Staff writer for the Greek national daily, Eleftherotypia; with comments by Patrick Welter, Economics Correspondent, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. Moderated by Ian Vásquez, Director, Center for Global Liberty and Prosperity, Cato Institute.
The Beijing Consensus: How China's Authoritarian Model Will Dominate the Twenty-First Century (4/6/10)
A Cato Institute Book Forum featuring the author Stefan Halper; with comments by Bonnie S. Glaser, Senior Fellow, Center for Strategic and International Studies; and
Ted Galen Carpenter, Vice President for Defense and Foreign Policy Studies, Cato Institute. Moderated by Doug Bandow, Senior Fellow, Cato Institute.
Cato Institute Policy Perspectives 2010 (4/1/10)
A Cato Institute City Seminar featuring: Edward H. Crane, President, Cato Institute; Michael D. Tanner, Senior Fellow, Cato Institute; Neal McCluskey, Associate Director of the Center for Educational Freedom, Cato Institute; Roger Pilon, Vice President for Legal Affairs, Cato Institute; and P. J. O'Rourke, H. L. Mencken Research Fellow, Cato Institute.
Are Unions Good for America? (3/31/10)
A Cato Institute Capitol Hill Briefing featuring Armand Thieblot, Author, Union Violence: The Record and the Response by Courts, Legislatures, and the NLRB; Daniel Griswold, Director, Center for Trade Policy Studies, Cato Institute; and Chris Edwards, Director of Tax Policy Studies, Cato Institute.
Would Universal Coverage Improve Health? (3/25/10)
A Cato Institute Policy Forum featuring John Z. Ayanian, Professor of Medicine and Health Care Policy, Harvard Medical School and Brigham and Women's Hospital; David Meltzer, Associate Professor of Medicine and Economics, University of Chicago; and Michael F. Cannon, Director of Health Policy Studies, Cato Institute.
10 Rules for Dealing with Police (3/24/10)
A Cato Institute Film Premiere. With comments from William "Billy" Murphy, Attorney and 10 Rules Narrator and Neill Franklin, Law Enforcement Against Prohibition. Moderated by Tim Lynch, Director, Project on Criminal Justice, Cato Institute.
Health Care Reform: The Way Forward (3/22/10)
A Cato Institute Capitol Hill Briefing featuring Michael F. Cannon, Director of Health Policy Studies, Cato Institute.
Escalate or Withdraw? Conservatives and the War in Afghanistan (3/18/10)
A Cato Institute Conference. Opening Remarks
Christopher Preble, Cato Institute
Panel 1
The Honorable Tom McClintock (R-CA); The Honorable Dana Rohrabacher (R-CA); The Honorable John J. Duncan, Jr. (R-TN); moderated by Grover Norquist, Americans for Tax Reform
Panel 2
Tony Blankley, Washington Times; Donald Devine, editor, Conservative Battleline On Line; Diana West, Washington Examiner; Mackenzie Eaglen, Heritage Foundation; moderated by Malou Innocent, Cato Institute
Keynote Address
Joe Scarborough, MSNBC, with an introduction by Edward H. Crane, Cato Institute
A Superpower in What? A Look Into the Nature of Russia's Social Order (3/17/10)
A Cato Institute Policy Forum featuring Julia Latynina, Independent journalist, Russia. Moderated by Andrei Illarionov, Senior Fellow, Center for Global Liberty and Prosperity, Cato Institute.
Did a Lack of Consumer Protection Cause the Financial Crisis? (3/16/10)
A Cato Institute Policy Forum featuring Janis Bowdler, National Council of La Raza; Thomas Durkin, Former Economist, Federal Reserve Board; Ed Mierzwinski, U.S. PIRG; and Todd Zywicki, George Mason University School of Law. Moderated by Mark A. Calabria, Director, Financial Regulation Studies, Cato Institute.
Don't Blame The Shorts: Why Short Sellers Are Always Blamed for Market Crashes and How History Is Repeating Itself (3/11/10)
A Cato Institute Book Forum featuring the author, Robert Sloan, Managing Partner, S3 Partners; with comments by James J. Angel, McDonough School of Business, Georgetown University; and Frank Hatheway, Chief Economist, NASDAQ OMX. Moderated by Mark A. Calabria, Director, Financial Regulation Studies, Cato Institute.
The Watchers: The Rise of America's Surveillance State (3/10/10)
A Cato Institute Book Forum featuring the author, Shane Harris; with comments by Julian Sanchez, Research Fellow, Cato Institute. Moderated by Jim Harper, Director of Information Policy Studies, Cato Institute.
McDonald v. Chicago: The Fourteenth Amendment and the Future of Gun Rights (3/3/10)
A Cato Institute Capitol Hill Briefing featuring Ilya Shapiro, Senior Fellow in Constitutional Studies, Cato Institute; Timothy Sandefur, Principal Attorney, Pacific Legal Foundation; and Clark Neily, Senior Attorney, Institute for Justice.
McDonald v. Chicago: Will the Right to Keep and Bear Arms Apply to the States? (3/1/10)
A Cato Institute Policy Forum featuring Ilya Shapiro, Senior Fellow in Constitutional Studies, Cato Institute; Doug Kendall, Founder and President of the Constitutional Accountability Center; and Timothy Sandefur, Principal Attorney, Pacific Legal Foundation. Moderated by Roger Pilon, Vice President for Legal Affairs, Cato Institute.
22nd Annual Benefactor Summit (2/25-28/10)
A Cato Institute Conference. By invitation only.
The Science of Liberty: Democracy, Reason, and the Laws of Nature (2/24/10)
A Cato Institute Book Forum featuring the author, Timothy Ferris, with comments by Jason Kuznicki, Research Fellow, Cato Institute; and Jonathan Rauch, Contributing editor, the Atlantic Monthly, and visiting scholar, The Brookings Institution. Moderated by Brink Lindsey, Vice President for Research, Cato Institute.
Nuclear Weapons Spending and the Future of the Arsenal (2/22/10)
A Cato Institute Capitol Hill Briefing featuring Stephen I. Schwartz, Editor, Nonproliferation Review, James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies of the Monterey Institute of International Studies, and principal author, Nuclear Security Spending: Assessing Costs, Examining Priorities; and Christopher Preble, Director of Foreign Policy Studies, Cato Institute, and author, The Power Problem: How American Military Dominance Makes Us Less Safe, Less Prosperous, and Less Free.
Would the Senate Health Care Bill Keep the Poor Poor? (2/22/10)
A Cato Institute Policy Forum featuring Michael F. Cannon, Director of Health Policy Studies, Cato Institute; and C. Eugene Steuerle, Institute Fellow and Richard B. Fisher Chair, Urban Institute.
Is There a Place for Gay People in Conservatism and Conservative Politics? (2/17/10)
A Cato Institute Policy Forum featuring Nick Herbert, MP, Shadow Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, Conservative Party, United Kingdom; Andrew Sullivan, The Daily Dish Blog, The Atlantic; and Maggie Gallagher, President, National Organization for Marriage.
Greed, Irresponsibility, or Policy Mistakes: What Caused the Recession? (2/5/10)
A Cato Institute Capitol Hill Briefing featuring Mark Calabria, Director of Financial Regulation Studies, Cato Institute and Steve H. Hanke, Senior Fellow, Cato Institute, and Professor, Applied Economics, and Co-Director, Institute for Applied Economics and the Study of Business Enterprise, The Johns Hopkins University.
From Poverty to Prosperity: Intangible Assets, Hidden Liabilities and the Lasting Triumph over Scarcity (2/4/10)
A Cato Institute Book Forum featuring the authors, Arnold Kling, Economist and blogger, EconLog; and
Nick Schulz, DeWitt Wallace Fellow, American Enterprise Institute, and editor, American.com; with comments by Zanny Minton-Beddoes, Economics editor, The Economist. Moderated by Brink Lindsey, Vice President for Research, Cato Institute.
The Rule of Law in Russia (2/2/10)
A Cato Institute Policy Forum featuring Karinna Moskalenko, International Protection Center, Moscow; and Robert Amsterdam, Amsterdam & Peroff, London. Moderated by Andrei Illarionov, Cato Institute.
Campaign Finance after Citizens United: What Now? (2/2/10)
A Cato Institute Capitol Hill Briefing featuring John Samples, Director, Center for Representative Government, Cato Institute, and Author, The Fallacy of Campaign Finance Reform; Ilya Shapiro, Senior Fellow in Constitutional Studies and Editor in Chief, Cato Supreme Court Review, Cato Institute; and Allison Hayward, Assistant Professor of Law, George Mason University.
Driverless Cars: The Next Transportation Revolution (1/21/10)
A Cato Institute Capitol Hill Briefing featuring Randal O'Toole, Senior Fellow, Cato Institute, and author, Gridlock: Why We're Stuck in Traffic and What to Do about It; and Burkhard Huhnke, Director of Research, Volkswagen America.
Gridlock: Why We're Stuck in Traffic and What to Do About It (1/20/10)
A Cato Institute Book Forum featuring the author, Randal O'Toole, Senior Fellow, Cato Institute; with comments by Michael Replogle, Global Policy Director and Founder, Institute for Transportation and Development Policy; and Anthony Downs, Senior Fellow, Brookings Institution.
Liberating Bone Marrow Donors (1/19/10)
A Cato Institute Policy Forum featuring Jeff Rowes, Senior Attorney, Institute for Justice, and plaintiffs' lead counsel in Flynn v. Holder; James F. Childress, Hollingsworth Professor of Ethics and Director of the Institute for Practical Ethics and Public Life, University of Virginia; and Sigrid Fry-Revere, Founder and President of the Center for Ethical Solutions. Moderated by Roger Pilon, Vice President for Legal Affairs, Cato Institute.
The Obama Administration's Counterterrorism Policy at One Year (1/13/10)
A Cato Institute Policy Forum featuring a keynote address by Daniel Benjamin, Coordinator for Counterterrorism, U.S. Department of State. Additional speakers include Clark Ervin, Director, Aspen Institute's Homeland Security Program; Paul Pillar, Former CIA official now Professor and Director of Studies of the Security Studies Program at Georgetown University; Michael German, Former FBI agent now serving as policy counsel on national security, immigration, and privacy at the American Civil Liberties Union; Priscilla Lewis, Co-Director of the U.S. in the World Initiative; and Jacob Shapiro, Assistant Professor of Politics and Public Affairs at Princeton University's Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs. Moderated by Christopher Preble, Director of Foreign Policy Studies, Cato Institute and Jim Harper, Director of Information Policy Studies, Cato Institute.
Obamanomics: How Barack Obama Is Bankrupting You and Enriching His Wall Street Friends, Corporate Lobbyists, and Union Bosses (1/12/10)
A Cato Institute Book Forum featuring the author, Timothy P. Carney, Lobbying Editor, Washington Examiner; with comments by Uwe Reinhardt, James Madison Professor of Political Economy, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University; and Ross Douthat, New York Times columnist. Moderated by Michael F. Cannon, Director of Health Policy Studies, Cato Institute.
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