Cato University 2014
Summer Seminar on Political Economy
July 27, 2014 - August 1, 2014
Rancho Bernardo Inn, San Diego, CA
About Cato University | Schedule | Scholarship
Schedule
Sunday, July 27 | |
3:00pm – 6:00pm | Registration |
6:30pm – 7:30pm | Reception |
7:30pm – 9:30pm | Dinner speaker: Tom Palmer, The Science of Liberty
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Monday, July 28 | |
8:00am | Breakfast |
9:00 – 10:15am | Jeff Miron, The Power of Incentives
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10:15 – 10:45am | Break |
10:45 – 12:00pm | Tom Palmer, Origins of State and Government
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12:00 – 1:30pm | Lunch |
1:30 – 2:45pm | Tom Palmer, Freedom in an Historical Perspective
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2:45 – 3:15pm | Break |
3:15 – 4:30pm | Jeff Miron, The Economics of Cooperation and Coercion: Free Markets vs. Interventionism
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4:30pm | Free Time |
6:30 – 7:00pm | Reception |
7:00 – 9:00pm | Dinner speaker: Brian Doherty, Liberalism, Libertarianism, Conservatism, Socialism
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Tuesday, July 29 | |
8:00am | Breakfast |
9:00 – 10:15am | Rob McDonald, Liberty and the American Experience, Part I
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10:15 – 10:45am | Break |
10:45 – 12:00pm | Randy Barnett, Why the Declaration of Independence Was Right: Demystifying Natural Rights
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12:00 – 1:30pm | Lunch |
1:30 – 2:45pm | Rob McDonald, How Collectivism Nearly Destroyed America before It Even Really Got Started
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2:45 – 3:15pm | Break |
3:15 – 4:30pm | Tom Palmer, The World-wide Revolution for Liberty
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4:30pm | Free Time |
6:00 – 9:00pm | Off Site Dinner, Dinner Speaker, Gabriela Calderon de Burgos, Liberty in Latin America
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Wednesday, July 30 | |
8:00am | Breakfast |
9:00 – 10:15am | Randy Barnett, Our Republican Constitution: Why Popular Sovereignty Requires the Judicial Protection of Human Rights
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10:15 – 10:45am | Break |
10:45 – 12:00pm | Rob McDonald, Liberty and the American Experience, Part II
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12:00 – 1:30pm | Lunch |
1:30 – 5:00pm | Optional Workshops and Free Time Activities |
6:30 – 7:00pm | Reception |
7:00 – 9:00pm | Dinner speaker: Rob McDonald, George Washington and the Power of Restraint
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Thursday, July 31 | |
8:00am | Breakfast |
9:00 – 10:15am | Erik Gartzke, The Capitalist Peace
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10:15 – 10:45am | Break |
10:45 – 12:00pm | Louise Bennetts, A Recipe for Disaster: Populism, Cronyism and Banking Instability
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12:00 – 1:30pm | Lunch |
1:30 – 2:45pm | Gabriela Calderon de Burgos, The Threat to Liberty from Populist Statism
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2:45 – 3:15pm | Break |
3:15 – 4:30pm | Randy Barnett,The Modesty of "Radical" Libertarianism
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4:30pm | Free Time |
6:30 – 7:00pm | Reception |
7:00 – 9:00pm | Dinner speaker: Tom Palmer, Our Lives, Our Fortunes, and Our Sacred Honor
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Friday, August 1 | |
7:45am – 9:15am | Farewell Breakfast |
About Cato University | Schedule | Register | Scholarship
John Allison is the President and CEO of the Cato Institute. Prior to joining Cato, Allison was Chairman and CEO of BB&T Corporation, the 10th largest financial services holding company headquartered in the United States. During his tenure as CEO from 1989 to 2008, BB&T grew from $4.5 billion to $152 billion in assets. He was recognized by the Harvard Business Review as one of the top 100 most successful CEOs in the world over the last decade. Allison has received the Corning Award for Distinguished Leadership, been inducted into the North Carolina Business Hall of Fame, and received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the American Banker. He is a former Distinguished Professor of Practice at Wake Forest University School of Business, and serves on the Board of Visitors at the business schools at Wake Forest, Duke, and UNC-Chapel Hill. Allison is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He received his master's degree in management from Duke University, and is also a graduate of the Stonier Graduate School of Banking.
Director, Center for Constitutional Studies
Roger Pilon is the founder and director of Cato's Center for Constitutional Studies, which has become an important force in the national debate over constitutional interpretation and judicial philosophy. He is the publisher of the Cato Supreme Court Review and is an adjunct professor of government at Georgetown University through The Fund for American Studies. Prior to joining Cato, Pilon held five senior posts in the Reagan administration, including at State and Justice, and was a National Fellow at Stanford's Hoover Institution. In 1989 the Bicentennial Commission presented him with its Benjamin Franklin Award for excellence in writing on the U.S. Constitution. In 2001 Columbia University's School of General Studies awarded him its Alumni Medal of Distinction. Pilon lectures and debates at universities and law schools across the country and testifies often before Congress. Pilon holds a B.A. from Columbia University, an M.A. and a Ph.D. from the University of Chicago, and a J.D. from the George Washington University School of Law.
Brian Doherty is a senior editor at Reason magazine and Reason.com.
Doherty is author of the books This is Burning Man (2004, Little, Brown; paperback BenBella, 2006), Radicals for Capitalism: A History of the Modern American Libertarian Movement (PublicAffairs, 2007), Gun Control on Trial (Cato, 2008), and Ron Paul's Revolution: The Man and the Movement He Inspired (HarperCollins/Broadside, 2012).
From 1994 to 2003, Doherty worked as associate editor and reporter for Reason, writing a variety of stories on topics ranging from the Americans with Disabilities Act to pollution-credit trading to the independent rock scene.
Doherty's work has appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, Los Angeles Times, Mother Jones, Spin, National Review, The Weekly Standard, San Francisco Chronicle and dozens of other publications.
He has been a commentator on hundreds of radio and TV shows, including Fox News Channel's The O'Reilly Factor and Glenn Beck Show. Doherty was the Warren Brookes Fellow in Environmental Journalism at the Competitive Enterprise Institute in 1999 and served as managing editor at Regulation magazine from 1993-94.
Doherty received a bachelor's degree in journalism from the University of Florida. He lives in Los Angeles.
Randy Barnett is the Carmack Waterhouse Professor of Legal Theory at the Georgetown University Law Center, where he teaches constitutional law and contracts. After graduating from Northwestern University and Harvard Law School, he tried many felony cases as a prosecutor in the Cook County States’ Attorney’s Office in Chicago. He has been a visiting professor at Northwestern and Harvard Law School. In 2008, he was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in Constitutional Studies.
In 2004, Professor Barnett appeared before the U.S. Supreme Court to argue the medical cannabis case of Gonzalez v. Raich. He lectures internationally and appears frequently on radio and television programs such as the CBS Evening News, The News Hour (PBS), Talk of the Nation (NPR), Hannity & Colmes (FOX) and the Ricki Lake Show. He delivered the Kobe 2000 lectures in jurisprudence at the University of Tokyo and Doshisha University in Kyoto.
Professor Barnett’s scholarship includes more than eighty articles and reviews, as well as eight books, including Restoring the Lost Constitution: The Presumption of Liberty (Princeton, 2004),Constitutional Law: Cases in Context (Aspen 2008), and Contracts Cases and Doctrine (Aspen, 4th ed. 2008).
Erik Gartzke is an associate professor of political science at the University of California, San Diego. He studies institutional correlates to war and peace, with an emphasis on bargaining and rational choice theory. He has contributed prolifically to his discipline, notably in the Journal of Conflict Resolution, the American Journal of Political Science, and International Studies Quarterly, among many others.
Gartzke holds a Ph.D.in political science from the University of Iowa and a B.A. in history from the University of San Francisco.