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2012
Saving Urban Transit from the Federal Government (6/14/12)
A Cato Institute Capitol Hill Briefing featuring Randal O’Toole, Senior Fellow, Cato Institute; Samuel Staley, Managing Director, DeVoe Moore Center, Florida State University; Alan Pisarski, Author, Commuting in America; moderated by Laura Odato, Manager of Government Affairs, Cato Institute.
The Death and Life of Affordable Housing (6/13/12)
A Cato Institute Policy Forum featuring Ryan Avent, Author of The Gated City; Adam Gordon, Staff Attorney, Fair Share Housing; Randal O'Toole, Senior Fellow, Cato Institute, and author of American Nightmare: How Government Undermines the Dream of Homeownership; Matthew Yglesias, author of The Rent Is Too Damn High; moderated by Diana Lind, Executive Director and Editor-in-Chief, Next American City.
The DISCLOSE Act and the Future of Campaign Finance (6/8/12)
A Cato Institute Capitol Hill Briefing featuring John Samples, Director, Center for Representative Government, Cato Institute; moderated by Laura Odato, Manager of Government Affairs, Cato Institute.
Cato Papers on Public Policy Conference (6/7-8/12)
A Cato Institute Conference.
What Made the Financial Crisis Systemic? (5/30/12)
A Cato Institute Capitol Hill Briefing featuring Kevin Villani, Former Chief Economist, HUD and Freddie Mac; moderated by Mark Calabria, Director of Financial Regulation Studies, Cato Institute.
Corporate Tax Reform: An International Perspective (5/23/12)
A Cato Institute Capitol Hill Briefing featuring Jack Mintz, Director, School of Public Policy, University of Calgary; Kevin Hassett, Director, Economic Policy Studies, American Enterprise Institute; moderated by Chris Edwards, Director, Tax Policy Studies, Cato Institute.
Breakout Nations: In Pursuit of the Next Economic Miracles (5/22/12)
A Cato Institute Book Forum featuring the author Ruchir Sharma, Head of Emerging Market Equities and Global Macro, Morgan Stanley Investment Management; with comments by Swaminathan S. Anklesaria Aiyar, Research Fellow, Center for Global Liberty and Prosperity, Cato Institute; moderated by Ian Vasquez, Director, Center for Global Liberty and Prosperity, Cato Institute.
The Future of the U.S. Navy Surface Fleet (5/21/12)
A Cato Institute Policy Forum featuring Robert O. Work, Under Secretary of the Navy; Eric J. Labs, Senior Analyst for Naval Forces and Weapons, Congressional Budget Office; Ben Freeman, National Security Fellow, Project on Government Oversight; Christopher Preble, Vice President for Defense and Foreign Policy Studies, Cato Institute; moderated by Benjamin Friedman, Research Fellow in Defense and Homeland Security Studies, Cato Institute.
Gasoline Prices: Who's to Blame and What to Do? (5/18/12)
A Cato Institute Sponsor E-briefing featuring a presentation and live discussion with Jerry Taylor, Senior Fellow, Cato Institute.
Investment Protectionism And What to Do about It (5/17/12)
A Cato Institute Policy Forum featuring James Bacchus, Drafting Committee Chair, International Chamber of Commerce Guidelines for International Investment, and former WTO Appellate Body Chairman; Nancy McLernon, President and CEO, Organization for International Investment; Josh Kallmer, Deputy Assistant U.S. Trade Representative for Investment, Office of the U.S. Trade Representative; moderated by Dan Ikenson, Director, Herbert A. Stiefel Center for Trade Policy Studies, Cato Institute.
The Future of Federal Highway Finance: Diversions, Deficits, or Devolution? (5/17/12)
A Cato Institute Policy Forum featuring Randal O'Toole, Senior Fellow, Cato Institute; Adrian Moore, Vice President of Policy, Reason Foundation; and Ron Utt, Adjunct Fellow, Maryland Public Policy Institute; moderated by Michael Tanner, Senior Fellow, Cato Institute.
American Nightmare: How Government Undermines the Dream of Homeownership (5/16/12)
A Cato Institute Book Forum featuring the author Randal O'Toole, Senior Fellow, Cato Institute; Adrian Moore, Vice President of Policy, Reason Foundation; Paul Emrath, Vice President for Survey and Housing Policy Research, National Association of Home Builders; moderated by Mark Calabria, Director of Financial Regulation Studies, Cato Institute.
Ron Paul's rEVOLution: The Man And the Movement He Inspired (5/15/12)
A Cato Institute Book Forum.
The Tea Party: Three Principles (5/15/12)
A Cato Institute Book Forum featuring the author Elizabeth Price Foley, Florida International University College of Law; with comments by Doug Kendall, Constitutional Accountability Center; and Michael Barone, American Enterprise Institute; moderated by Roger Pilon, Cato Institute.
The American Welfare State: How We Spend Nearly $1 Trillion a Year Fighting Poverty — And Fail (5/14/12)
A Cato Institute Capitol Hill Briefing featuring Michael Tanner, Senior Fellow, Cato Institute; moderated by Heather Curry, Manager, External Affairs, Cato Institute.
The Clash of Economic Ideas (5/11/12)
A Cato Institute Book Forum featuring the author Lawrence H. White, Professor of Economics, George Mason University; with comments by Sylvia Nasar, John S. and James L. Knight Professor of Business Journalism, Columbia University, Author, A Beautiful Mind and Grand Pursuit: The Story of Economic Genius, moderated by James A. Dorn, Editor, Cato Journal, and Vice President for Academic Affairs, Cato Institute.
Federal Cyber-Security Regulation: Critical Safety Measure, or Privacy Nightmare? (5/9/12)
A Cato Institute New Media Lunch featuring Jim Harper, Director of Information Policy Studies, Cato Institute; Michelle Richardson, Legislative Counsel, American Civil Liberties Union; Ryan Radia, Associate Director of Technology Studies, Competitive Enterprise Institute; moderated by Zach Graves, Manager of New Media, Cato Institute.
Public Policy Day and "Liberating the Future" Celebration (5/5/12)
A Cato Institute Conference featuring David Boaz, Executive Vice President, Cato Institute; Roger Pilon, Vice President, Legal Affairs, Cato Institute; Christopher A. Preble, Vice President, Defense and Foreign Policy Studies, Cato Institute; Daniel J. Ikenson, Director, Herbert A. Stiefel Center for Trade Policy Studies, Cato Institute; Sallie James, Trade Policy Analyst, Herbert A. Stiefel Center for Trade Policy Studies, Cato Institute; Chris Edwards, Director, Tax Policy Studies, Cato Institute; Dan Mitchell, Senior Fellow, Cato Institute; Michael D. Tanner, Senior Fellow, Cato Institute; Pat Michaels, Senior Fellow, Environmental Studies, Cato Institute; Jerry Taylor, Senior Fellow, Cato Institute.
Financing Failure: A Century of Bailouts (4/30/12)
A Cato Institute Book Forum.
Featuring the author Vern McKinley, Research Fellow, Independent Institute; with comments by Matthew Stoller, Fellow, Roosevelt Institute, Contributing editor, Naked Capitalism; moderated by Mark Calabria, Director, Financial Regulation Studies, Cato Institute.
Nuclear Weapons Spending in the 2013 Budget (4/30/12)
A Cato Institute Capitol Hill Briefing featuring Christopher Preble, Vice President for Defense and Foreign Policy Studies, Cato Institute; Russell Rumbaugh, Director, Budgeting for Foreign Affairs and Defense Program, Stimson Center; Laura Peterson, Senior Policy Analyst, Taxpayers for Common Sense; moderated by Laura Odato, Manager of Government Affairs, Cato Institute.
Talking Shop: Online News Editors (4/27/12)
A Cato Institute New Media Lunch featuring Peter Tucci, Daily Caller; Kevin Glass, Townhall; Jake Horowitz, PolicyMic; Francesca Chambers, Red Alert Politics; moderated by Zach Graves, Cato Institute.
Is Immigration Good for America? (4/26/12)
A Cato Institute Conference featuring: Representative Zoe Lofgren (D-CA), ranking member on the House Subcommittee on Immigration Policy and Enforcement; Tamar Jacoby, ImmigrationWorks USA; Pia Orrenius, Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas; Ali Noorani, National Immigration Forum; Barry Chiswick, George Washington University; Jim Harper, Cato Institute; Madeline Zavodny, Agnes Scott College; Stuart Anderson, National Foundation for American Policy; Ted Alden, Council on Foreign Relations; Bryan Caplan, George Mason University; Alex Nowrasteh, Cato Institute. Moderated by Ilya Shapiro, Sallie James, and Dan Ikenson of the Cato Institute.
The Swing Vote: The Untapped Power of Independents (4/25/12)
A Cato Institute Book Forum featuring the author Linda Killian, Senior Scholar, Woodrow Wilson Center for International Scholars; with comments by David Kirby, Vice President of Development, FreedomWorks; moderated by John Samples, Director of the Center for Representative Government, Cato Institute.
Why Capitalism? (4/24/12)
A Cato Institute Book Forum featuring the author Allan H. Meltzer, University Professor of Political Economy at Carnegie Mellon University; with comments by John Mueller, Senior Fellow, Cato Institute; moderated by David Boaz, Executive Vice President, Cato Institute.
"Stand Your Ground" Laws: Self-Defense or License to Kill? (4/23/12)
A Cato Institute Policy Forum featuring Clayton E. Cramer, Historian, Co-author, Cato study, Tough Targets: When Criminals Face Armed Resistance from Citizens; Massad Ayoob, Firearms Trainer, author of In the Gravest Extreme; Steven Jansen, Vice President, Association of Prosecuting Attorneys; moderated by Tim Lynch, Director, Project on Criminal Justice, Cato Institute.
Citizens v. the Ruling Elite (4/20/12)
A Cato Institute Policy Forum featuring Mark Meckler, Co-founder, Tea Party Patriots; Eric O'Keefe, Co-Chairman, Campaign for Primary Accountability; Geoff Pallay, Special Projects Director, Ballotpedia; moderated by John Samples, Director of the Center for Representative Government, Cato Institute.
Free Market Fairness (4/19/12)
A Cato Institute Book Forum featuring author John Tomasi, Brown University; with comments by John Hasnas, Georgetown University; moderated by John Samples, Cato Institute.
Cato Club Naples: The Great Contradiction: Government Schooling for a Free Society (4/18/12)
A Cato Institute City Seminar. By invitation only.
Evaluating the Homegrown Terrorist Threat (4/13/12)
A Cato Institute Conference featuring Ben Friedman, Cato Institute; Risa Brooks, Marquette University; John Mueller, Ohio State University and Cato Institute; Brian Jenkins, RAND Corporation; Max Abrahms, Johns Hopkins University; Mitchell Silber, New York Police Department and Columbia University; Michael Kenney, University of Pittsburgh; Glenn Carle, CIA (retired).
Trade Policy Priority One: Averting a U.S.-China Trade War (4/11/12)
A Cato Institute Capitol Hill Briefing featuring Dan Ikenson, Director, Herbert A. Stiefel Center for Trade Policy Studies, Cato Institute; Erin Ennis, Vice President, U.S.-China Business Council; moderated by Laura Odato, Manager, Government Affairs, Cato Institute.
Succeeding in the World of Media and Policy, with Tucker Carlson (4/11/12)
A Cato Institute Policy Forum featuring Tucker Carlson, Editor-in-Chief, Daily Caller.
Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty (4/4/12)
A Cato Institute Book Forum featuring the coauthor Daron Acemoglu, Killian Professor of Economics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; with comments by Karla Hoff, Senior Research Economist, Development Economics Group, World Bank; moderated by Ian Vasquez, Director, Center for Global Liberty and Prosperity, Cato Institute.
The Lost Majority: Why the Future of Government Is Up for Grabs — and Who Will Take It (4/4/12)
A Cato Institute Book Forum featuring the author Sean Trende, Senior Elections Analyst, RealClearPolitics.com; with comments by Lance Tarrance Jr., President, Tarrance Consulting and Emily Ekins, Research Fellow, Cato Institute; moderated by John Samples, Director of the Center for Representative Government, Cato Institute.
U.S. Policy toward Iran: The Prospects for Success — and for Failure (3/30/12)
A Cato Institute Conference featuring Michael Adler, Woodrow Wilson Center; Jamie Fly, Foreign Policy Initiative; Matthew Kroenig, Georgetown University; Justin Logan, Cato Institute; Nuno Monteiro, Yale University; Alireza Nader, RAND Corporation; Joshua Rovner, U.S. Naval War College; Barbara Slavin, Atlantic Council.
Knowledge and Coordination: A Liberal Interpretation (3/29/12)
A Cato Institute Book Forum featuring the author Daniel B. Klein, Professor of Economics, George Mason University; with comments by Jason Kuznicki, Cato Institute; moderated by Gene Healy, Vice President, Research Fellow, Cato Institute.
The People's Money: How Voters Will Balance the Budget and Eliminate the Federal Debt (3/28/12)
A Cato Institute Book Forum featuring the author Scott Rasmussen, Founder and President, Rasmussen Reports; with comments by Sean Trende, Senior Elections Analyst, RealClearPolitics; and Michael Barone, Senior Political Analyst, Washington Examiner; moderated by Michael D. Tanner, Senior Fellow, Cato Institute.
Barack Obama: Civil Liberties Nightmare (3/28/12)
A Cato Institute Sponsor E-briefing featuring a presentation and live discussion with Gene Healy, Cato vice president and author of The Cult of the Presidency: America's Dangerous Devotion to Executive Power.
Cybersecurity: Will Federal Regulation Help? (3/23/12)
A Cato Institute Capitol Hill Briefing featuring Jim Harper, Director of Information Policy Studies, Cato Institute; Jerry Brito, Senior Research Fellow, Mercatus Center at George Mason University, Ryan Radia, Associate Director of Technology Studies, Competitive Enterprise Institute, moderated by Laura Odato, Manager of Government Affairs, Cato Institute.
Obamacare in the Supreme Court (3/23/12)
A Cato Institute Conference featuring Michael Cannon, Cato Institute; Randy Barnett, Georgetown University Law Center; Elizabeth Wydra, Constitutional Accountability Center; Jagadeesh Gokhale, Cato Institute; Timothy Sandefur, Pacific Legal Foundation; Simon Lazarus, National Senior Citizens Law Center; moderated by Ilya Shapiro, Cato Institute and Roger Pilon, Cato Institute.
“Inflation or Stagnation? When and Why” and “The Case for Fossil Fuels” (3/22/12)
A Cato Institute City Seminar. By invitation only.
Cato Club Naples: “Inflation or Stagnation? When and Why” and “The Case for Fossil Fuels” (3/21/12)
A Cato Institute City Seminar. By invitation only.
Internet Taxation: Should States Be Allowed to Tax outside Their Borders? (3/19/12)
A Cato Institute Capitol Hill Briefing featuring Dan Mitchell, Senior Fellow, Cato Institute; Adam Thierer, Senior Research Fellow, Mercatus Center at George Mason University; moderated by Laura Odato, Manager of Government Affairs, Cato Institute.
Flagrant Conduct: The Story of Lawrence v. Texas (3/16/12)
A Cato Institute Book Forum featuring the author Dale Carpenter, Earl R. Larson Professor of Civil Rights and Civil Liberties Law, University of Minnesota Law School; with comments by Charles Lane, Editorial Writer and former Supreme Court Reporter, Washington Post; moderated by David Boaz, Executive Vice President, Cato Institute.
Cato Institute Policy Perspectives 2012 (3/16/12)
A Cato Institute City Seminar.
Still a Better Deal: Private Investment vs. Social Security (3/14/12)
A Cato Institute Capitol Hill Briefing featuring Michael Tanner, Senior Fellow, Cato Institute; moderated by Laura Odato, Manager of Government Affairs, Cato Institute.
A Landmark Legal Challenge (3/1/12)
A Cato Institute Policy Forum featuring petitioners E. Duncan Getchell, Solicitor General, Commonwealth of Virginia; Patrick R. Day, Holland and Hart LLP, Coalition for Responsible Regulation; Theodore Hadzi-Antich, Senior Staff Attorney, Pacific Legal Foundation; Harry W. MacDougald, Southeastern Legal Foundation; moderated by Patrick J. Michaels, Senior Fellow in Environmental Studies, Cato Institute.
Cato Club Naples: The Tea Party, the Constitution, and the 2012 Elections (2/28/12)
A Cato Institute City Seminar. By invitation only.
President Obama's 2013 Budget (2/27/12)
A Cato Institute Capitol Hill Briefing featuring Chris Edwards, Director of Tax Policy Studies, Cato Institute; Michael Tanner, Senior Fellow, Cato Institute; and Tad DeHaven, Budget Analyst, Cato Institute; moderated by Laura Odato, Manager of Government Affairs, Cato Institute.
The Tea Party, the Constitution, and the 2012 Elections (2/27/12)
A Cato Institute City Seminar. By invitation only.
24th Annual Benefactor Summit (2/23-26/12)
A Cato Institute Conference. By invitation only.
European Integration: What's Gone Wrong? (2/21/12)
A Cato Institute Policy Forum featuring Richard Sulik, Former Speaker of Parliament, Slovakia; Doug Bandow, Senior Fellow, Cato Institute; and Antonio de Lecea, Principal Adviser, EU Delegation to Washington; moderated by Marian Tupy, Policy Analyst, Center for Global Liberty and Prosperity, Cato Institute.
Tea Party Patriots: The Second American Revolution (2/16/12)
A Cato Institute Book Forum featuring the authors Mark Meckler and Jenny Beth Martin, Cofounders, Tea Party Patriots; with comments by John Fund, American Spectator; moderated by Edward H. Crane, President, Cato Institute.
Cato Institute Policy Perspectives 2012 (2/6/12)
A Cato Institute City Seminar.
The Libertarian State of the Union (1/24/12)
A Cato Institute Capitol Hill Briefing featuring Michael Tanner, Senior Fellow, Cato Institute; Mark Calabria, Director of Financial Regulation Studies, Cato Institute; Dan Mitchell, Senior Fellow, Cato Institute; and Ilya Shapiro, Senior Fellow in Constitutional Studies, Cato Institute; moderated by Laura Odato, Manager of Government Affairs, Cato Institute.
Unintended Consequences of the Rogue Website Crackdown (1/19/12)
A Cato Institute Capitol Hill Briefing.
Featuring Larry Downes, Senior Adjunct Fellow, TechFreedom, Author, The Laws of Disruption; Julian Sanchez, Research Fellow, Cato Institute; James Gattuso, Senior Research Fellow in Regulatory Policy, Heritage Foundation; Allan Friedman, Research Director, Center for Technology Innovation, Brookings Institution; and Dan Kaminsky, Security Researcher; moderated by Ryan Radia, Associate Director of Technology Studies, Competitive Enterprise Institute.
FDR Goes to War: How Expanded Executive Power, Spiraling National Debt, and Restricted Civil Liberties Shaped Wartime America (1/17/12)
A Cato Institute Book Forum.
Featuring the authors Burton W. Folsom, Jr. and Anita Folsom. Moderated by David Boaz, Cato Institute.
Trade and Global Economic Freedom (1/12/12)
A Cato Institute City Seminar. By invitation only.
Cato Club Naples: Trade and Global Economic Freedom (1/11/12)
A Cato Institute City Seminar. By invitation only.
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