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2004
Reflections of a Free-Trade Democrat (12/15/04)
A Cato Institute Policy Forum featuring Rep. Cal Dooley (D-CA); I. M. "Mac" Destler, Author, American Trade Politics; and moderated by Daniel Griswold, Director, Center for Trade Policy Studies, Cato Institute.
Is American Liberty Imperiled? (12/14/04)
A Cato Institute Book Forum featuring Judge Andrew P. Napolitano, Senior Judicial Analyst, Fox News, and Author, Constitutional Chaos: What Happens When the Government Breaks Its Own Laws (Nelson Books, 2004); Gene Healy,
Senior Editor, Cato Institute, and
Editor, Go Directly to Jail: The Criminalization of Almost Everything
(Cato Institute, 2004); and moderated by Tim Lynch, Director, Cato's Project on Criminal Justice
The World's Banker: A Story of Failed States, Financial Crises, and the Wealth and Poverty of Nations (12/10/04)
A Cato Institute Book Forum featuring the author Sebastian Mallaby, Columnist, Washington Post; with comments by
Kenneth Rogoff, Professor of Economics, Harvard University and Former Chief Economist, International Monetary Fund; and moderated by Brink Lindsey, Cato Institute.
Cato Perspectives 2004 - New York City (12/10/04)
A Cato Institute City Seminar featuring Hon. Andrew P. Napolitano, Senior Judicial Analyst, Fox News Channel; and Christopher Hitchens, Columnist, Vanity Fair and author of the newly published Love, Poverty and War: Essays and Journeys.
Welfare Reform Implementation: A State Report Card (12/7/04)
A Cato Institute Policy Forum featuring Dr. Wade Horn *, Assistant Secretary for Children and Families, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services; Jenifer Zeigler, Welfare Policy Analyst, Cato Institute; Jon Hobbs, National Director of Welfare Reform Initiatives, American Institute for Full Employment; and Mark Greenberg, Director of Policy, Center for Law and Social Policy.
Liberty, Technology, and Prosperity (12/2/04)
A Cato Institute City Seminar. Cosponsored by the Cato Institute and The Economist. Featuring Maren Christensen, Senior Vice President, Intellectual Property Counsel, NBC Universal; Lee Hollaar, Professor, School of Computing, University of Utah; Les Vadasz; Fred von Lohmann, Senior Staff Attorney, Electronic Frontier Foundation; and Rick White, President and CEO, TechNet.
Is the Baseball Deal a Strikeout for D.C.? (11/29/04)
A Cato Institute Policy Forum featuring David Catania, At-Large Council Member, D.C. Council; Brad Humphreys, Associate Professor in the Department of Recreation, Sport and Tourism, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; Scott Wallsten, Fellow,
AEI-Brookings Joint Center for Regulatory Studies; Ed Lazere, Executive Director, D.C. Fiscal Policy Institute; and moderated by Stephen Slivinski, Director of Budget Studies, Cato Institute
Meltdown: The Predictable Distortion of Global Warming by Scientists, Politicians, and the Media (11/18/04)
A Cato Institute Book Forum featuring the author Patrick J. Michaels, Senior Fellow, Cato Institute, Professor of Environmental Sciences, University of Virginia; with comments by Sallie Baliunas, Harvard University; and Marlo Lewis, Competitive Enterprise Institute.
The Shackled Continent: Power, Corruption, and African Lives (11/17/04)
A Cato Institute Book Forum featuring the author Robert Guest, Africa Editor, The Economist; with comments by Marian Tupy,
Assistant Director, Project on Global Economic Liberty, Cato Institute; and moderated by Ian Vásquez, Cato Institute.
Shakedown: How Corporations, Government, and Trial Lawyers Abuse the Judicial Process (11/10/04)
A Cato Institute Book Forum featuring the author Robert A. Levy, Cato Institute; with comments by Walter K. Olson, Manhattan Institute; moderated by Edward H. Crane, Cato Institute.
Marine One: Buy the Best or Just Buy American? (11/9/04)
A Cato Institute Policy Forum featuring Daniel Griswold, Cato Institute; William R. Hawkins, U.S. Business and Industry Council; Loren Thompson, Lexington Institute; Malcolm Wallop, Former U.S. Senator; moderated by Charles V. Peña, Cato Institute.
Here We Go Again: Congress Attempts to Outlaw Spyware (11/5/04)
A Cato Institute Capitol Hill Briefing featuring Jim Harper, Director of Information Policy Studies, Cato Institute and Orson Swindle, Commissioner, Federal Trade Commission.
The Power of Productivity: Wealth, Poverty, and the Threat to Global Stability (10/29/04)
A Cato Institute Book Forum featuring the author William W. Lewis, Director emeritus, McKinsey Global Institute; with comments by Simon Johnson, Professor, MIT Sloan School of Management, and Research Department Assistant Director, International Monetary Fund; moderated by Ian Vásquez, Director, Cato Institute Project on Global Economic Liberty.
The Art of Persuasion: Skills for Everyone (10/28-31/04)
A Cato Institute Conference. Speakers Gene Healy, Karol Boudreaux, Deroy Murdock, Dan Griswold, Monte Solberg (M.P.), and Tom G. Palmer among others.
Iran's Nuclear Program: Isolation, Engagement, or Acceptance? (10/28/04)
A Cato Institute Policy Forum featuring Peter Brookes, Heritage Foundation; Joseph Cirincione,
Carnegie Endowment for International Peace; and Ted Galen Carpenter,
Cato Institute. Moderated by Charles V. Peña, Cato Institute.
What’s Wrong with the Voters? (10/26/04)
A Cato Institute Policy Forum featuring Ilya Somin, George Mason University School of Law; John Samples, Cato Institute; Michael P. McDonald, Brookings Institution; moderated by David Boaz, Cato Institute.
Would a National ID Make Us Safer or Just Less Free? (10/26/04)
A Cato Institute Capitol Hill Briefing featuring Jim Harper Director of Information Policy Studies, Cato Institute and Former Rep. Bob Barr, 21st Century
Liberties Chair for Freedom and Privacy, American Conservative Union.
Lessons from the Iraq War: Reconciling Liberty and Security (10/22/04)
A Cato Institute Conference featuring Nick Gillespie, Reason; Shibley Telhami, University of Maryland, Brookings Institution; Robert Higgs, Independent Institute; James Robbins, Nationalreview.com; John Mueller, Ohio State University; and Ted Galen Carpenter and Brink Lindsey, Cato Institute.
The Next Big Thing in Copyright? The Induce Act and Contributory Liability (10/20/04)
A Cato Institute Policy Forum featuring David Green, MPAA; Markham Erickson, NetCoalition; Gigi Sohn, Public Knowledge; Mitch Glazier, RIAA; and Adam Thierer, Cato Institute.
LOST at Sea: Arguments against the Law of the Sea Treaty (10/14/04)
A Cato Institute Capitol Hill Briefing featuring Doug Bandow, Senior Fellow,
Cato Institute; Fred L. Smith Jr., President, Competitive Enterprise Institute; and Frank J. Gaffney Jr., President and CEO, The Center for Security Policy.
22nd Annual Monetary Conference: International Monetary Reform and Capital Freedom (10/14/04)
A Cato Institute Conference featuring Ben S. Bernanke, Member,
Federal Reserve Board of Governors;
Raghuram Rajan, Director of Research,
International Monetary Fund; Kristin J. Forbes, Member, Council of Economic Advisers; and Leszek Balcerowicz,
President, National Bank of Poland.
Trade and the Future of American Workers (10/7/04)
A Cato Institute Conference featuring Sen. Chuck Hagel, Roger Ferguson, Vice Chairman, Federal Reserve Board and Gregory Mankiw, Chairman, President's Council of Economic Advisers.
Competing Visions for Health Reform (9/29/04)
A Cato Institute Book Forum featuring Sally Pipes, Author, Miracle Cure: How to Solve America’s Health Care Crisis and Why Canada Isn’t the Answer (Pacific Research Institute, 2004); John Goodman,
Coauthor, Lives at Risk: Single-Payer National Health Insurance around the World (Rowman & Littlefield, 2004); with comments by Jeff Lemieux,
Executive Director, Centrists.org; and Robert Kuttner, Cofounder and Coeditor, The American Prospect.
Cowboy Capitalism: European Myths, American Reality (9/29/04)
A Cato Institute Book Forum featuring the author Olaf Gersemann,
Washington Correspondent, Wirtschaftswoche; with comments by Steven Pearlstein, Business Columnist,
Washington Post.
Creating a True Marketplace in Education (9/28/04)
A Cato Institute Half-day Conference featuring John Merrifield, Professor of Economics, University of Texas at San Antonio; Myron Lieberman, Chairman, Education Policy Institute; Andrew Coulson, Senior Fellow for Education Policy, Mackinac Center for Public Policy; and Richard Vedder, Professor of Economics, Ohio University.
Why Globalization Works (9/22/04)
A Cato Institute Book Forum featuring the author Martin Wolf, Chief Economics Commentator, Financial Times; with comments by Arvind Panagariya, Professor Columbia University.
Cato Institute Policy Perspectives 2004 -- Philadelphia (9/22/04)
A Cato Institute City Seminar featuring Hon. Andrew P. Napolitano,
Senior Judicial Analyst, Fox News Channel; and Edward H. Crane, President, Cato Institute.
Drug Reimportation: The Free-Market Solution (9/20/04)
A Cato Institute Capitol Hill Briefing featuring Roger Pilon, Vice President for Legal Affairs, Cato Institute.
Press Event for Constitution Day (9/17/04)
A Cato Institute Press Conference.
The Supreme Court: Past and Prologue—A Look at the October 2003 and October 2004 Terms (9/17/04)
A Cato Institute Symposium.
Cato Institute Policy Perspectives 2004 — Beverly Hills (9/14/04)
A Cato Institute City Seminar featuring Penn Jillette, Penn & Teller; State Senator Tom McClintock; and Edward H. Crane, President, Cato Institute.
The War on Terrorism: A Progress Report (9/8/04)
A Cato Institute Policy Forum featuring Roger Cressey, Former Director for Transnational Threats, National Security Council; Peter Bergen, New America Foundation, Author, Holy War, Inc.: Inside the Secret World of Osama bin Laden; Walid Phares, Florida Atlantic University, Author, The Iranian Khumanist Islamic Revolution; and Charles V. Peña, Director of Defense Policy Studies, Cato Institute.
Blakely’s Wake: Should the Federal Sentencing Guidelines Be Saved or Scrapped? (8/26/04)
A Cato Institute Policy Forum. The Cato Institute and the Federalist Society invite you to a Policy Forum featuring Honorable William Young, Chief Judge, U.S. District Court for Massachusetts; Daniel J. Bryant, Assistant Attorney General for Legal Policy, U.S. Department of Justice; Erik Luna, Professor of Law, University of Utah; and Jack M. Kress, Author, Prescription for Justice: The Theory and Practice of Sentencing Guidelines.
Affirmative Action after Michigan (8/19/04)
A Cato Institute Policy Forum featuring Walter Williams, George Mason University, Moderator; Douglas Besharov,
Professor, University of Maryland School of Public Policy; Marie Gryphon, Cato Institute; Tanya Clay, People for the American Way; and Harry Holzer, Georgetown University.
Is America Number One? (7/26/04)
A Cato Institute Cato Film Series For Interns featuring John Stossel’s provocative ABC News documentaries.
Cato University Summer Seminar (7/24-30/04)
A Cato Institute Cato University featuring Tom Palmer.
The Case for CAFTA: Promoting Freedom in our Neighborhood (7/23/04)
A Cato Institute Capitol Hill Briefing featuring Dan Griswold, Associate Director, Center for Trade Policy Studies
Cato Institute; and Mario Canahuati,
Ambassador of Honduras.
The Case for CAFTA: Four Ambassadors Speak Out for Free Trade (7/20/04)
A Cato Institute Policy Forum featuring Ambassador Hugo Guiliani, Dominican Republic; Ambassador René León, El Salvador; Ambassador Guillermo Castillo, Guatemala; and Ambassador Mario Canahuati, Honduras.
John Stossel Goes to Washington (7/19/04)
A Cato Institute Cato Film Series For Interns featuring John Stossel’s provocative ABC News documentaries.
Collision Course? Taiwan and the Danger of a U.S.-China War (7/16/04)
A Cato Institute Capitol Hill Briefing featuring Ted Galen Carpenter, Vice President for Defense and Foreign Policy Studies, Cato Institute.
Press Conference for Economic Freedom of the World (7/15/04)
A Cato Institute Press Conference.
Greed (7/12/04)
A Cato Institute Capitol Hill Briefing featuring John Stossel’s provocative ABC News documentaries.
We the People in the Courtroom: Recommendations for Tort and Class Action Reform (7/9/04)
A Cato Institute Capitol Hill Briefing featuring Robert Levy, Senior Fellow in Constitutional Studies, Cato Institute, and Mark Moller, Senior Fellow in Constitutional Studies, Cato Institute.
Battle For Zimbabwe: The Final Countdown (6/30/04)
A Cato Institute Book Forum featuring Geoff Hill, Correspondent, Washington Times; with comments by Walter Kansteiner, Former U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for Africa.
America Alone: The Neo-Conservatives and the Global Order (6/29/04)
A Cato Institute Book Forum featuring the authors Jonathan Clarke and Stefan Halper; with comments by Robert Novak,
Nationally Syndicated Columnist.
Peace Kills: America’s Fun New Imperialism (6/23/04)
A Cato Institute Book Forum featuring P.J. O’Rourke, H. L. Mencken Research Fellow, Cato Institute, and
author of Peace Kills: America’s Fun New Imperalism (Atlantic Monthly Press, June 2004).
Exiting Iraq: Why the U.S. Must End the Military Occupation and Renew the War against Al Qaeda (6/21/04)
A Cato Institute Capitol Hill Briefing featuring Christopher A. Preble,
Director of Foreign Policy Studies and Director of the Cato Institute Special Task Force on Exiting Iraq; with comments by Michael O’Hanlon, Senior Fellow,
Brookings Institution.
Press Conference (6/21/04)
A Cato Institute Press Conference.
The Law and Economics of File Sharing & P2P Networks (6/17/04)
A Cato Institute Half-day Conference featuring Jack Valenti, President and Chief Executive Officer, Motion Picture Association of America; and the Hon. Rick Boucher, U.S. Representative from Virginia.
Cato Luncheon featuring PJ O'Rourke (6/16/04)
A Cato Institute City Seminar.
Why FDA Regulation Is a Death Sentence for the Terminally Ill (6/10/04)
A Cato Institute Policy Forum featuring Frank Burroughs, President and Founder, Abigail Alliance; Steve Walker, Regulatory Advisor, Abigail Alliance; and David Price, Counsel, Washington Legal Foundation.
Cato Institute Perspectives 2004 - New York City (6/10/04)
A Cato Institute City Seminar featuring P. J. O'Rourke, H. L. Mencken Research Fellow, Cato Institute, and author, Peace Kills: America's Fun New Imperialism, Atlantic Monthly Press (June 2004); and Adrian Wooldridge, Washington Correspondent, The Economist, and Coauthor, The Right Nation: Conservative Power in America, Penguin Press (May 2004).
Down on the Farm? Assessing the Prospects for Global Agricultural Trade Liberalization (6/8/04)
A Cato Institute Policy Forum featuring Thomas Lambie, President, Federated Farmers of New Zealand; Jennifer Brant, Trade Policy Advisor, Oxfam America; and Daniel T. Griswold, Associate Director, Center for Trade Policy Studies, Cato Institute.
Kids, Cartoons, and Cookies: Should We Restrict the Marketing of Food to Children? (6/7/04)
A Cato Institute Policy Forum featuring Todd Zywicki, Director, Office of Policy Planning, Federal Trade Commission; Dale Kunkel, Professor of Communications, University of California–Santa Barbara, Member of the American Psychological Association’s Task Force on Advertising and Children; and Daniel L. Jaffe, Executive Vice President, Association of National Advertisers.
The Right Nation: Conservative Power in America (6/2/04)
A Cato Institute Book Forum featuring John Micklethwait, U.S. Editor, The Economist; Adrian Wooldridge, Washington Correspondent, The Economist; with comments by James P. Pinkerton, Columnist, Newsday.
Looking Worldwide: What Americans Can Learn from School Choice in Other Countries (5/27/04)
A Cato Institute Conference featuring David Salisbury, Director, Center for Educational Freedom, Cato Institute; Charles Glenn, Professor of Education, Administration, Training, and Policy Studies, Boston University; and James Tooley, Professor of Education Policy, University of Newcastle, England
Bush and Kerry: Comparing Their Economic Platforms (5/25/04)
A Cato Institute Policy Forum featuring Gary Hufbauer, Reginald Jones
Senior Fellow, Institute for International Economics; Dan Griswold, Associate Director, Center for Trade Policy Studies, Cato Institute; and Chris Edwards, Director of Fiscal Policy Studies, Cato Institute.
The FCC’s Media Ownership Decision One Year Later (5/25/04)
A Cato Institute Capitol Hill Briefing featuring Andrew Schwartzman, President and CEO, Media Access Project, and Adam Thierer, Director of Telecommunications Studies, Cato Institute.
Myths Behind the Day After Tomorrow Press Conference (5/24/04)
A Cato Institute Press Conference.
Cato Institute Policy Perspectives 2004 - Chicago (5/20/04)
A Cato Institute City Seminar featuring Charles Murray, W.H. Brady Scholar in Culture and Freedom, American Enterprise Institute, author of Human Accomplishment: The Pursuit of Excellence in the Arts and Sciences, 800 B.C. to 1950 (HarperCollins, November 2003), and Adrian Wooldridge, Washington Correspondent, The Economist,
coauthor of The Right Nation: Conservative Power in America (Penguin, May 2004).
The Republican Revolution 10 Years Later (5/20/04)
A Cato Institute Conference featuring Newt Gingrich, Former Speaker of the House; Dick Armey, Former House Majority Leader; Ed Crane, Cato Institute and Thomas Edsall, The Washington Post.
May 17: The Day Gay Marriage Began? (5/17/04)
A Cato Institute Policy Forum featuring Jonathan Rauch, Author, Gay Marriage: Why It Is Good for Gays, Good for Straights, and Good for America (Henry Holt, 2004); Michael S. Greve, Director, Federalism Project,
American Enterprise Institute; and
Genevieve Wood, Vice President for Communications, Family Research Council.
Remedying the Organ Shortage: The Ethics of Market Incentives (5/13/04)
A Cato Institute Policy Forum featuring Richard A. Epstein, James Parker Hall Distinguished Service Professor of Law,
University of Chicago; David J. Undis,
Executive Director, LifeSharers; and James F. Childress, Former Member, Ethics Committee, United Network for Organ Sharing, Hollingsworth Professor of Ethics, University of Virginia.
10 Years of Democracy in South Africa: Achievements and Challenges (5/12/04)
A Cato Institute Policy Forum featuring Barbara Masekela, Ambassador of the Republic of South Africa;
Richard Tren, Free Market Foundation of South Africa; George Ayittey, Department of Economics, American University; and Marian L. Tupy, Project on Global Economic Liberty, Cato Institute.
Educational Freedom in Urban America: Brown v. Board after Half a Century (5/11/04)
A Cato Institute Book Forum featuring Rod Paige, U.S. Secretary of Education; Gerard Robinson, University of Virginia; Casey Lartigue, Fight for Children; Clint Bolick, School Choice Alliance; and Howard Fuller, Institute for the Transformation of Learning at Marquette University.
The Trouble with Islam: A Muslim's Call for Reform in Her Faith (5/7/04)
A Cato Institute Book Forum featuring Irshad Manji, author, with comments by Claude Salhani, United Press International, and Charles Peña,
Cato Institute.
Biennial Dinner
The Milton Friedman Prize for Advancing Liberty (5/6/04)
A Cato Institute Dinner. With Honored Guests Milton and Rose Friedman, Thomas Sowell,
Fareed Zakaria, and Hernando De Soto, Recipient, 2004 Milton Friedman Prize for Advancing Liberty.
Federalism and the New Iraqi Constitution (5/5/04)
A Cato Institute Policy Forum featuring Amatzia Baram, Senior Fellow,
United States Institute of Peace; Ilya Somin, Assistant Professor of Law, George Mason University; and Patrick Basham, Senior Fellow, Cato Institute.
The War on Terrorism: A War within Islam? (4/30/04)
A Cato Institute Policy Forum featuring Husain Haqqani, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace; Salam Al-Marayati, Executive Director, Muslim Public Affairs Council (MPAC);
Charles V. Peña, Cato Institute; and Michael Vlahos, Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory.
EU Enlargement: Unique Opportunity or Historic Mistake? (4/29/04)
A Cato Institute Policy Forum featuring Rastislav Kacer, Ambassador of the Slovak Republic; William Niskanen,
Chairman, Cato Institute; Marian Tupy,
Project on Global Economic Liberty, Cato Institute; and E. Wayne Merry, Senior Associate, American Foreign Policy Council.
Triumph of the Hacks? (4/27/04)
A Cato Institute Policy Forum featuring Bruce Reed, President, Democratic Leadership Council; Ron Suskind, Author, The Price of Loyalty: George W. Bush, the White House and the Education of Paul O'Neill; and David Frum, Resident Fellow, American Enterprise Institute and Author, The Right Man: The Surprise Presidency of George W. Bush.
A Liberal Agenda for the New Century: A Global Perspective (4/8/04)
A Cato Institute Conference featuring Leszek Balcerowicz, President of the National Bank of Poland and Former Finance Minister, Poland; Ed Crane, Cato Institute; Mart Laar, Former Prime Minister, Estonia; and Ruth Richardson, Former Minister of Finance New Zealand.
The Truth about Job Losses and Free Trade (4/2/04)
A Cato Institute Capitol Hill Briefing featuring Daniel Griswold, Associate Director, Center for Trade Policy Studies
Cato Institute.
The Devil's Footpath: A Young Person’s Journey through Africa (3/30/04)
A Cato Institute Policy Forum featuring June Arunga, Inter-Region Economic Network, Nairobi, Kenya, and George Ayittey, Department of Economics, American University.
Resolved: Congress Should Remove the Ban on Drug Reimportation (3/30/04)
A Cato Institute Policy Forum. In the affirmative, Roger Pilon,
Vice President for Legal Affairs, Cato Institute; in the negative, John E. Calfee,
Resident Scholar, American Enterprise Institute.
Extinctions of Logic: Is There a Link between Human-Caused Global Warming and Mass Extinction? (3/29/04)
A Cato Institute Capitol Hill Briefing featuring Pat Michaels, Senior Fellow in Environmental Studies, Cato Institute.
Uncle Sam's Plantation: How Big Government Enslaves America's Poor and What We Can Do about It (3/25/04)
A Cato Institute Book Forum featuring Star Parker; with comments by
Debra Dickerson, Columnist, Beliefnet.com; John McWhorter, Senior Fellow, Manhattan Institute.
Digital Pearl Harbor: How Real is the Cybersecurity Threat, and Who's Responsible Anyway? (3/25/04)
A Cato Institute City Seminar featuring Andreas Kluth, Moderator, The Economist; Ben Golub, Senior Vice President of Marketing and Corporate Affairs, VeriSign; Scott Culp, Senior Security Strategist, Microsoft Corporation; Larry Clinton, Operations Officer, Internet Security Alliance; and Wayne Crews, Director of Technology Policy, Cato Institute.
Autocratic, Democratic, and Optimal Government: Fiscal Choices and Economic Outcomes (3/24/04)
A Cato Institute Book Forum featuring the author, William Niskanen, Chairman, Cato Institute; with comments by Richard Wagner, Professor of Economics, George Mason University.
Nurturing Minds or Fostering Hatred? U.S. Involvement in Education in Muslim Countries (3/23/04)
A Cato Institute Policy Forum featuring Andrew Coulson, Mackinac Center; Omer Taspinar, Brookings Institution; Amb. Husain Haqqani, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace; and Bill Evers, Hoover Institution.
Telecom Reform after the D.C. Circuit Decision: Is It Time for a New Telecom Act? (3/18/04)
A Cato Institute Capitol Hill Briefing featuring Bill Barr, Executive Vice President and General Counsel, Verizon; and Adam Thierer, Director of Telecommunications Studies, Cato Institute.
The Coming Generational Storm: What You Need to Know about America's Economic Future (3/15/04)
A Cato Institute Book Forum featuring the coauthor Laurence J. Kotlikoff; with comments by Kevin Hassett, American Enterprise Institute; and Barry Bosworth, Brookings Institution.
Social Security University (3/15-17/04)
A Cato Institute Capitol Hill Briefing featuring Michael Tanner, director of the Cato Institute's Project on Social Security Choice, and William Shipman, Chairman, Carriage Oaks Partners, LLC.
Military Manpower Requirements: Too Much or Not Enough? (3/15/04)
A Cato Institute Policy Forum featuring Janice Laurence, National Defense University; Christopher Preble, Cato Institute; and Michael Vlahos, Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory.
The Road to Serfdom (3/10/04)
A Cato Institute Book Forum featuring James M. Buchanan, Nobel Laureate in Economics
and Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Economics, George Mason University; Edward H. Crane, President, Cato Institute; Leonard P. Liggio, Executive Vice President,
Atlas Economic Research Foundation, and President, Mont Pelerin Society; and Daniel Yergin, Coauthor of Commanding Heights: The Battle for the World Economy and Chairman, Cambridge Energy Research Associates.
Whither Nuclear Power? (3/8/04)
A Cato Institute Policy Forum featuring Richard Gordon, Professor Emeritus of Mineral Economics, Pennsylvania State University; Peter Bradford, Visiting Lecturer, Energy Policy & Environmental Protection, Yale University; and James Hewlett, Industry Analyst, U.S. Energy Information Administration.
Manufacturing, U.S. Competitiveness, and the Global Economy (3/5/04)
A Cato Institute Capitol Hill Briefing featuring Jeremy Leonard, Manufacturers Alliance/MAPI; Alan Reynolds, Cato Institute; and Chris Edwards, Cato Institute.
BBC Film Shoot (3/5/04)
A Cato Institute Press Conference.
Transition in Iraq: The July 1 Deadline and Beyond (2/26/04)
A Cato Institute Policy Forum featuring John Hendren, Los Angeles Times; Amb. Edward Peck, Former Chief of Mission in Baghdad; Christopher Preble, Cato Institute and Johanna Mendelson-Forman, UN Foundation.
Flying the Unfriendly Skies: Defending Against Shoulder-Fired Missiles (2/25/04)
A Cato Institute Policy Forum featuring Alvin Schnurr, Northrop Grumman; David Forbes, BoydForbes Security; and Charles Peña, Cato Instutite.
Just Get Out of the Way: How Government Can Help Business in Poor Countries (2/24/04)
A Cato Institute Book Forum featuring the author Robert E. Anderson; with comments by Simeon Djankov Manager, Monitoring, Analysis and Policy Unit of the World Bank
and lead author, Doing Business in 2004: Understanding Regulation.
Deployed in the U.S.A. (2/18/04)
A Cato Institute Policy Forum featuring Hon. Bob Barr, Former Member of Congress (R-GA); Gene Healy, Senior Editor, Cato Institute; and David Klinger, Professor of Criminology and Criminal Justice, University of Missouri.
The Federal Budget Outlook (2/6/04)
A Cato Institute Capitol Hill Briefing featuring Douglas Holtz-Eakin, Director, Congressional Budget Office; and Chris Edwards, Director, Fiscal Policy Studies, Cato Institute.
Restoring the Lost Constitution: The Presumption of Liberty (2/4/04)
A Cato Institute Book Forum featuring the author Randy E. Barnett, Cato Institute and Boston University School of Law; with comments by Walter Dellinger, Duke University and O’Melveny & Myers; and Judge David Sentelle, U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit.
Give Me a Break: How I Exposed Hucksters, Cheats, and Scam Artists and Became the Scourge of the Liberal Media (2/3/04)
A Cato Institute City Seminar featuring John Stossel, Co-Anchor of ABC’s 20/20; and Author of Give Me a Break: How I Exposed Hucksters, Cheats, and Scam Artists and Became the Scourge of the Liberal Media (HarperCollins, 2004).
The Ideas and Impact of F. A. Hayek (2/2/04)
A Cato Institute Book Forum featuring Bruce J. Caldwell, Author, Hayek's Challenge: An Intellectual Biography of F. A. Hayek (Chicago, 2003); and Alan Ebenstein, Author, Hayek’s Journey: The Mind of Friedrich Hayek (Palgrave, 2003); with comments by Dick Armey, Former professor of economics, former House majority leader, and cochairman, Citizens for a Sound Economy.
A Cato Plan for Social Security Reform (1/30/04)
A Cato Institute Capitol Hill Briefing featuring Michael Tanner, Director, Cato Project on Social Security Choice.
Antitrust in the High-Tech Marketplace: The Real Irrational Exuberance? (1/29/04)
A Cato Institute Policy Forum featuring Fred L. Smith Jr., Competitive Enterprise Institute; Jonathan Zuck, Association for Competitive Technology; and Ed Black, Computer and Communications Industry Association.
Willing Workers: How to Fix the Problem of Illegal Immigration (1/28/04)
A Cato Institute Capitol Hill Briefing featuring Rep. Jeff Flake, (R–AZ); and Dan Griswold, Associate Director, Center for Trade Policy Studies, Cato Institute.
Education and Capitalism: How Overcoming Our Fear of Markets and Economics Can Improve America's Schools (1/28/04)
A Cato Institute Book Forum featuring the authors Herbert J. Walberg, Hoover Institution; and Joseph L. Bast, Heartland Institute; with comments by John Fund, Wall Street Journal.
Give Me a Break: How I Exposed Hucksters, Cheats, and Scam Artists and Became the Scourge of the Liberal Media (1/27/04)
A Cato Institute Book Forum featuring the author John Stossel, Co-Anchor of ABC’s 20/20.
Give Me a Break: How I Exposed Hucksters, Cheats, and Scam Artists and Became the Scourge of the Liberal Media (1/23/04)
A Cato Institute City Seminar featuring John Stossel, Co-Anchor of ABC’s 20/20; and Author of Give Me a Break: How I Exposed Hucksters, Cheats, and Scam Artists and Became the Scourge of the Liberal Media (HarperCollins, 2004).
Dodging the Draft: Will There be One? Do We Need One? (1/21/04)
A Cato Institute Capitol Hill Briefing featuring Doug Bandow, Senior Fellow, Cato Institute; and Larry Korb, Senior Fellow, Center for American Progress.
President Bush’s Immigration Proposal: Too Much, Too Little, or About Right? (1/16/04)
A Cato Institute Policy Forum featuring Margaret Spellings, Assistant to the President for Domestic Policy; Daniel T. Griswold, Cato Institute; Frank Sharry, National Immigration Forum; Steven Camarota, Center for Immigration Studies; and
moderated by Ramesh Ponnuru, National Review.
A Textbook Problem: The Politics of Textbook Adoption (1/12/04)
A Cato Institute Policy Forum featuring Diane Ravitch, New York University; Frank Wang, Saxon Publishers; and Stephen Driesler, Association of American Publishers.
How Free Trade Promotes Democracy (1/9/04)
A Cato Institute Capitol Hill Briefing featuring Dan Griswold, Cato Institute.
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The Dirty Dozen: How Twelve Supreme Court Cases Radically Expanded Government and Eroded Freedom
Book Forum (5/6/08)
What to Do about Self-Funded Campaigns
Capitol Hill Briefing (4/21/08)
Highly Skilled Immigrants: Opening the Doors to Prosperity
Capitol Hill Briefing (4/17/08)
America's Drive for Energy Independence: Fueling the Oil Price Boom?
Policy Forum (4/9/08)