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2007
To Reform Health Care, Don't Increase Taxes, Cut Them (6/26/09)
A Cato Institute Capitol Hill Briefing featuring Michael D. Tanner, Senior Fellow, Cato Institute and Michael F. Cannon, Director of Health Policy Studies, Cato Institute.
Is This Socialized Medicine? (6/25/09)
A Cato Institute Policy Forum featuring Stan Dorn, Senior Research Associate, Urban Institute and Michael F. Cannon, Director of Health Policy Studies, Cato Institute.
Bringing Transparency to the Federal Reserve (6/24/09)
A Cato Institute Policy Forum featuring Rep. Ron Paul (R-TX); with comments by Gilbert Schwartz, Partner, Schwartz & Ballen LLP, Former Associate General Counsel, Federal Reserve; and
Bert Ely, President, Ely & Company, Inc. Moderated by Mark Calabria Director, Financial Regulation Studies, Cato Institute.
Pakistan and the Future of U.S. Policy (6/23/09)
A Cato Institute Policy Forum featuring Ambassador Wendy Chamberlin, President of the Middle East Institute and former U.S. Ambassador to Pakistan; Mukhtar A. Khan, Analyst, The Jamestown Foundation; Ken Luongo, President of the Partnership for Global Security; Malou Innocent, Foreign Policy Analyst, Cato Institute. Moderated by Christopher Preble, Director of Foreign Policy Studies, Cato Institute.
It's Our Turn to Eat: The Story of a Kenyan Whistleblower (6/22/09)
A Cato Institute Book Forum featuring the author Michela Wrong, with comments by Frank Vogl, President of Vogl Communications, Inc., Former Vice Chairman and Co-Founder of Transparency International. Moderated by Marian Tupy, Policy Analyst, Cato Institute.
Massachusetts — Three Years Later (6/22/09)
A Cato Institute Capitol Hill Briefing featuring Michael D. Tanner, Senior Fellow, Cato Institute; Greg Scandlen, President and CEO, Consumers for Health Care Choices; and Greg D'Angelo, Policy Analyst, Center for Health Policy Studies, Heritage Foundation.
Dred Scott's Revenge: A Legal History of Race and Freedom in America (6/18/09)
A Cato Institute Book Forum featuring the author, Judge Andrew P. Napolitano; with comments by Damon Root, Associate Editor, Reason; and Jason Kuznicki, Research Fellow, Cato Institute.
Cato Institute Conference on Health Care Reform (6/17/09)
A Cato Institute Conference.
A New Course for Antitrust (6/16/09)
A Cato Institute Policy Forum featuring Carl Shapiro, Deputy Assistant Attorney General for Economics, Antitrust Division, U.S. Department of Justice; with comments by Joshua D. Wright, George Mason University School of Law; and Edwin S. Rockefeller, Former Chairman, ABA Section of Antitrust Law, and author of The Antitrust Religion. Moderated by Douglas H. Ginsburg, U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit.
Restoring the Pro-Trade Consensus (6/15/09)
A Cato Institute Capitol Hill Briefing featuring Rep. Henry Cuellar (D-TX), Founder, Congressional Pro-Trade Caucus; and Daniel J. Ikenson, Associate Director, Center for Trade Policy Studies, Cato Institute.
Fusion Centers: Domestic Spying or Sensible Surveillance? (6/11/09)
A Cato Institute Policy Forum featuring Bruce Fein, Constitutional Attorney, The Lichfield Group; Harvey Eisenberg, Chief, National Security Section, Office of United States Attorney, District of Maryland; and Michael German, Policy Counsel, American Civil Liberties Union. Moderated by Tim Lynch, Director, Project on Criminal Justice, Cato Institute.
Who Are the Real Free Traders in Congress? (6/10/09)
A Cato Institute Capitol Hill Briefing featuring Sen. Judd Gregg (R-NH) and Daniel Griswold, Director, Center for Trade Policy Studies, Cato Institute.
Driving Like Crazy (6/9/09)
A Cato Institute Book Forum featuring the author P. J. O'Rourke, H. L. Mencken Research Fellow, Cato Institute.
The Financial Fix — Limited Purpose Banking (6/8/09)
A Cato Institute Policy Forum featuring John Goodman, President, National Center for Policy Analysis; and Laurence J. Kotlikoff, Professor of Economics, Boston University, and Senior Fellow, National Center for Policy Analysis. With comments by
William Poole, Senior Fellow, Cato Institute, and Former President, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis. Moderated by
William A. Niskanen, Chairman Emeritus and Distinguished Senior Economist, Cato Institute.
Cato Institute Policy Perspectives 2009 (6/4/09)
A Cato Institute City Seminar.
Cato Institute Policy Perspectives 2009 (6/3/09)
A Cato Institute City Seminar.
Will Cost Containment Derail Health Care Reform? (6/2/09)
A Cato Institute Capitol Hill Briefing featuring Arnold Kling, Adjunct Scholar, Cato Institute, and Author, Crisis of Abundance: Rethinking How We Pay for Health Care.
Brother, Can You Spare A Trillion? - Lessons from the New Deal and Great Depression (6/1/09)
A Cato Institute Conference.
Money, Markets, and Sovereignty (5/19/09)
A Cato Institute Book Forum featuring Benn Steil, Co-author and Director of International Economics, Council on Foreign Relations; and Manuel Hinds, Co-author and Former Finance Minister of El Salvador. Moderated by
Ian Vásquez, Director, Center for Global Liberty and Prosperity, Cato Institute.
The Welfare State We're In (5/18/09)
A Cato Institute Book Forum featuring the author, James Bartholomew, columnist for the Daily Telegraph and the Daily Mail; with comments by Dr. Wendell Primus, Senior Policy Advisor on Budget and Health Issues to Speaker Nancy Pelosi. Moderated by
Michael Tanner, Senior Fellow, Health and Welfare Studies, Cato Institute.
Is It Time to End the International War on Drugs? (5/15/09)
A Cato Institute Capitol Hill Briefing featuring Ted Galen Carpenter, Vice President for Defense and Foreign Policy Studies, Cato Institute; and Ian Vásquez, Director of the Center for Global Liberty and Prosperity, Cato Institute.
How Overreaction and Misdirection Play into the Strategy of Terrorism (5/11/09)
A Cato Institute Capitol Hill Briefing featuring Christopher A. Preble, Director of Foreign Policy Studies, Cato Institute and David Rittgers, Legal Policy Analyst, Cato Institute, and three-tour veteran, Operation Enduring Freedom, Afghanistan.
The Dangers of U.S. Military Dominance (5/1/09)
A Cato Institute Capitol Hill Briefing featuring Christopher A. 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 (Cornell University Press, 2009); and Paul J. Saunders, Executive Director, The Nixon Center.
Cato Institute Policy Perspectives 2009 (4/30/09)
A Cato Institute City Seminar.
Restoring the Pro-Trade Consensus (4/28/09)
A Cato Institute Policy Forum featuring Tim Reif, General Counsel, Office of the U.S. Trade Representative; Anne Kim, Economic Program Director, Third Way; and Dan Ikenson, Associate Director, Center for Trade Policy Studies, Cato Institute.
Shadow Open Market Committee (4/24/09)
A Cato Institute Conference featuring position papers from Michael Bordo, Rutgers University, "The Great Contraction 1929–1933: Are There Parallels to the Current Crisis?"; Charles Calomiris, Columbia University,
"The Dos and Don'ts of Financial Regulatory Reform" and "TALF and PPIP: Will they Work to Unclog the Financial Plumbing?"; Marvin Goodfriend, Carnegie Mellon University, "We Need an Accord for Fed Credit Policy"; Mickey Levy, Bank of America, "What's in Worse Shape, the Economy or Fiscal Policy?"; Bennett McCallum, Carnegie Mellon University, "China, the U.S. Dollar, and SDRs"; and Anna Schwartz, NBER, "Boundaries Between the Fed and the Treasury"; Moderated by Gregory Hess, Claremont McKenna College.
The Power of Freedom: Uniting Human Rights and Development (4/23/09)
A Cato Institute Book Forum featuring the author Jean-Pierre Chauffour, Economic Adviser, International Trade Department, World Bank; with comments by Susan Aaronson, Associate Research Professor of International Affairs, George Washington University; moderated by Ian Vasquez, Director, Center for Global Liberty and Prosperity, Cato Institute.
The Power Problem: How American Military Dominance Makes Us Less Safe, Less Prosperous, and Less Free (4/20/09)
A Cato Institute Book Forum featuring the author Christopher A. Preble, Director of Foreign Policy Studies, Cato Institute; Lawrence J. Korb, Center for American Progress;
Scott McConnell, The American Conservative; and moderated by Ted Galen Carpenter, Vice President for Defense and Foreign Policy Studies, Cato Institute.
Can Government Be Trusted with the Money Supply? (4/17/09)
A Cato Institute Book Forum featuring George Selgin, Author of Good Money; Steve H. Hanke, Professor of Applied Economics, Johns Hopkins University and Senior Fellow, Cato Institute; Richard W. Rahn, Chairman, Institute for Global Economic Growth and Senior Fellow, Cato Institute; moderator James A. Dorn, Director, Cato Annual Monetary Conference, and Editor, Cato Journal
Left Turn? South Africa after the Election (4/16/09)
A Cato Institute Policy Forum featuring Welile Nhlapo, South African Ambassador to the United States; J. Daniel O'Flaherty, Vice President, National Foreign Trade Council; Tom Woods, Former Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Africa; Moderated by Marian Tupy, Policy Analyst, Center for Global Liberty and Prosperity, Cato Institute.
The Beautiful Tree: A Personal Journey Into How the World's Poorest People Are Educating Themselves (4/15/09)
A Cato Institute Book Forum featuring the author, James Tooley, award-winning scholar who lives in Hyderabad, India, where he works with those who inspired this book; Reshma Lohia, who runs the private school, Lohia's Little Angels, serving 500 poor students in India; and Andrew J. Coulson, Director of the Center for Educational Freedom at the Cato Institute.
Health Care University: Which Reforms Are Better—or Worse—than Doing Nothing? (4/14-17/09)
A Cato Institute Capitol Hill Briefing featuring Michael F. Cannon, Director, Health Policy Studies, and coauthor of Healthy Competition: What's Holding Back Health Care and How to Free It.
Seasteading: Homesteading the High Seas for Liberty (4/7/09)
A Cato Institute Policy Forum featuring Patri Friedman, Executive Director, Seasteading Institute; with comments by Doug Bandow, Senior Fellow, Cato Institute; and Arnold Kling Adjunct Scholar, Cato Institute.
What the Administration's College Proposals Would Do for America (4/7/09)
A Cato Institute Capitol Hill Briefing featuring Andrew Gillen, Research Director, Center for College Affordability and Productivity; and Neal McCluskey, Associate Director, Center for Educational Freedom, Cato Institute.
Securing Land Rights for Chinese Farmers: The Progress So Far (4/6/09)
A Cato Institute Policy Forum featuring Roy Prosterman, Chair Emeritus, Rural Development Institute; and
Zhu Keliang, East Asia Program Manager, Rural Development Institute; moderated by
Ian Vasquez, Director, Center for Global Liberty and Prosperity, Cato Institute
Dead Aid: Why Aid Is Not Working and How There Is a Better Way for Africa (4/3/09)
A Cato Institute Book Forum featuring the author Dambisa Moyo; with comments by Todd Moss, Center for Global Development; moderated by Ian Vasquez, Director, Cato Institute's Center for Global Liberty and Prosperity;
Drug Decriminalization in Portugal (4/3/09)
A Cato Institute Policy Forum featuring Glenn Greenwald, Attorney and Best-selling Author; with comments by Peter Reuter, Department of Criminology, University of Maryland; moderated by Tim Lynch, Director, Project on Criminal Justice, Cato Institute.
NATO at 60: A Hollow Alliance (4/3/09)
A Cato Institute Capitol Hill Briefing featuring Ted Galen Carpenter, Vice President for Defense and Foreign Policy Studies, Cato Institute.
Can the Market Provide Choice and Secure Health Coverage Even for High-Cost Illnesses? (3/31/09)
A Cato Institute Policy Forum featuring John H. Cochrane, Myron S. Scholes Professor of Finance, University of Chicago Booth School of Business
Research Associate, National Bureau of Economic Research; Bradley Herring, Assistant Professor, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health;
moderated by Michael F. Cannon, Director of Health Policy Studies, Cato Institute.
Obama's Blueprint for Growing the Welfare State (3/31/09)
A Cato Institute Capitol Hill Briefing featuring Rep. Paul Ryan, Ranking Member, House Committee on the Budget; Chris Edwards, Senior Fellow, Cato Institute; and Michael Tanner, Senior Fellow, Cato Institute.
Georgia's Liberal Institutions In the Wake of War and the Global Economic Crisis (3/24/09)
A Cato Institute Policy Forum featuring David Bakradze, Speaker of the Georgian Parliament; Kakha Bendukidze, Former Minister of the Economy and Reform Coordination, Georgia;
and Andrei Illarionov, Senior Fellow, Center for Global Liberty and Prosperity, Cato Institute;
Cato Institute Policy Perspectives 2009 (3/24/09)
A Cato Institute City Seminar featuring David Boaz, Executive Vice President, Cato Institute; Lawrence W. Reed, President, Foundation for Economic Education; Robert Levy, Chairman, Cato Institute; Jerry Taylor, Senior Fellow, Cato Institute.
The Tie Goes to Freedom: Justice Anthony M. Kennedy on Liberty (3/23/09)
A Cato Institute Book Forum featuring author Helen J. Knowles, State University of New York, Oswego; With comments by Randy Barnett, Georgetown University Law Center; Moderated by Roger Pilon, Director, Cato Institute's Center for Constitutional Studies;
Tax Havens Should Be Celebrated, Not Persecuted (3/23/09)
A Cato Institute Capitol Hill Briefing featuring Daniel J. Mitchell, Senior Fellow at the Cato Institute and coauthor of Global Tax Revolution: The Rise of Tax Competition and the Battle to Defend It; and Richard Rahn, Former member of the Cayman Islands Monetary Authority;
The Politics and Science of Medical Marijuana (3/17/09)
A Cato Institute Policy Forum featuring Donald Abrams, M.D., Director of Clinical Programs, Osher Center for Integrative Medicine, University of California; Robert DuPont, M.D., President, Institute for Behavior and Health; Rob Kampia, Executive Director, Marijuana Policy Project; Moderated by Tim Lynch, Director, Project on Criminal Justice, Cato Institute
Can the Pentagon Be Fixed? (3/13/09)
A Cato Institute Policy Forum featuring Winslow Wheeler, Director, Straus Military Reform Project, Center for Defense Information; Colonel Douglas Macgregor, U.S. Army (Retired), Straus Military Reform Project adviser; Danielle Brian, Executive Director, Project on Government Oversight; Thomas Ricks, Senior Fellow, Center for a New American Security, and Special Military Correspondent for the Washington Post; and Benjamin Friedman, Research Fellow in Defense and Homeland Security, Cato Institute;
Transportation Reauthorization: Looking Beyond the Recession (3/12/09)
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
Robert Poole, Director of Transportation Studies, Reason Foundation;
Climate of Extremes: Global Warming Science They Don’t Want You to Know (3/12/09)
A Cato Institute Book Forum. Featuring coauthor Patrick J. Michaels, Senior Fellow in Environmental Studies at the Cato Institute with comments by David Legates, Delaware State Climatologist and Director of the Delaware Environmental Observing System.
21st Annual Benefactor Summit (3/4-8/09)
A Cato Institute Conference. By invitation only.
Should Government Deliver Comparative-Effectiveness Research – or Can It? (3/3/09)
A Cato Institute Policy Forum featuring Shannon Brownlee, Visiting Scholar, NIH Clinical Center, Dept. of Bioethics, and also Senior Fellow at the New America Foundation; Scott Gottlieb, M.D., Resident Fellow, American Enterprise Institute; and Michael F. Cannon, Director of Health Policy Studies, Cato Institute;
Obama and Presidential Power: Change or Continuity? (2/25/09)
A Cato Institute Policy Forum featuring Louis Fisher, Specialist on the Constitution, Law Library of Congress; and Jeffrey Rosen, Professor, The George Washington University School of Law. Moderated by Gene Healy, Vice President, Cato Institute.
Why Markets Are the Key to Quality, Coordinated Medical Care (2/20/09)
A Cato Institute Capitol Hill Briefing featuring Arnold Kling, author of Crisis of Abundance, Under the Radar: Starting Your Internet Business Without Venture Capital and Learning Economics and Adjunct Scholar, Cato Institute.
Mexico’s Drug War: The Growing Crisis on Our Southern Border (2/19/09)
A Cato Institute Policy Forum featuring Ted Galen Carpenter, Vice President for Defense and Foreign Policy Studies, Cato Institute; Ethan Nadelmann, Executive Director of the Drug Policy Alliance; Vanda Felbab-Brown, Foreign Policy Fellow at the Brookings Institution; and Daniel T. Griswold, Director of the Center for Trade Policy Studies, Cato Institute.
Falling Behind: Explaining the Development Gap Between Latin America and the United States (2/18/09)
A Cato Institute Book Forum featuring the editor Francis Fukuyama, Professor of International Political Economy, School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University; with comments by Norman Loayza, Lead Economist, Research Department, World Bank; moderated by Ian Vasquez, Director, Center for Global Liberty and Prosperity, Cato Institute
Breakfast for New Democratic House Members (2/12/09)
A Cato Institute Capitol Hill Briefing.
A Service to the Economy: The Importance of Free Trade in Services (2/10/09)
A Cato Institute Policy Forum featuring Bob Vastine, President of the U.S. Coalition of Services Industries; Christine Bliss, Assistant U.S. Trade Representative for Services and Investment; and Aaditya Mattoo, World Bank. Moderated by Sallie James, Policy Analyst, Cato Institute.
In Search of Jefferson's Moose: Notes on the State of Cyberspace (2/4/09)
A Cato Institute Book Forum featuring the author, Temple University Law Professor David Post; Clive Crook, Chief Washington Commentator of the Financial Times and Senior Editor of The Atlantic Monthly; and Jeffrey Rosen, Professor of Law at The George Washington University and Legal Affairs Editor of The New Republic; moderated by Jim Harper,
Director of Information Policy Studies at the Cato Institute
Climate of Extremes: The Global Warming Science They Don't Want You to Know (1/28/09)
A Cato Institute Capitol Hill Briefing featuring Patrick J. Michaels, Senior Fellow in Environmental Studies, Cato Institute; and Marlo Lewis, Senior Fellow, Competitive Enterprise Institute.
Little Pink House: A True Story of Defiance and Courage (1/27/09)
A Cato Institute Book Forum featuring Jeff Benedict, Author of Little Pink House; Susette Kelo, plaintiff in the landmark Kelo v. City of New London case; Scott Bullock, Institute for Justice senior attorney who argued the Kelo case before the Supreme Court; Moderator Roger Pilon, founder and director of Cato's Center for Constitutional Studies
Breakfast honoring new Republican Members of Congress (1/27/09)
A Cato Institute Capitol Hill Briefing.
Avoiding a Health Care Disaster (1/22/09)
A Cato Institute Capitol Hill Briefing featuring Michael F. Cannon,Director of Health Policy Studies at the Cato Institute and co-author of Healthy Competition: What's Holding Back Health Care and How to Free It.
Obama's Fiscal Policies: Ignoring the Global Tax Revolution (1/15/09)
A Cato Institute Capitol Hill Briefing featuring Daniel J. Mitchell, Senior Fellow, Cato Institute; Chris Edwards, Director of Tax Policy Studies, Cato Institute; and J.D. Foster, Senior Fellow, Heritage Foundation
Does Public Higher Ed Funding Drive Economic Growth? (1/14/09)
A Cato Institute Policy Forum featuring George Leef, Vice President for Research, John William Pope Center for Higher Education Policy; Barmak Nassirian, Associate Executive Director, External Relations, American Association of Collegiate Registrars and Admissions Officers; Neal McCluskey, Associate Director, Center for Educational Freedom, Cato Institute; Moderator Doug Lederman, Editor, Inside Higher Ed
The Dangers of Network Neutrality Regulation (1/13/09)
A Cato Institute Capitol Hill Briefing featuring Timothy B. Lee, Adjunct Scholar for the Cato Institute and member of the Center for IT Policy at Princeton University and Jerry Brito, Senior Research Fellow for the Mercatus Center and Adjunct Professor of Law at George Mason University School of Law
Shaping the Obama Administration’s Counterterrorism Strategy (1/12-13/09)
A Cato Institute Conference.
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