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2007
Health Care University (12/10-10/07)
A Cato Institute Capitol Hill Briefing.
The Simplified Tax: A Bold Plan to End the AMT and Overhaul the Income Tax (12/6/07)
A Cato Institute Capitol Hill Briefing featuring: Rep. Paul Ryan, (R-WI); Chris Edwards, Cato Institute; and Daniel Mitchell, Cato Institute.
The Real Story about Trade, Jobs, and Living Standards (12/5/07)
A Cato Institute Capitol Hill Briefing featuring Daniel Griswold, Director, Center for Trade Policy Studies, Cato Institute.
Boumediene v. Bush and the Rights of Enemy Combatants in Wartime (12/3/07)
A Cato Institute Policy Forum featuring Timothy Lynch, Cato Institute
and Jeremy Rabkin, George Mason University Law School. Moderated by Ilya Shapiro, Cato Institute.
Market Bailouts and the "Fed Put" (11/30/07)
A Cato Institute Policy Forum featuring William Poole, President, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, Former Member, Council of Economic Advisers.
Cato Institute Policy Perspectives 2007 (11/29/07)
A Cato Institute City Seminar featuring Robert D. Novak, Syndicated Columnist, and Randal O'Toole, Senior Fellow, Cato Institute.
Does Feminism Discriminate Against Men? A Debate (11/28/07)
A Cato Institute Book Forum featuring the coauthor, James P. Sterba, Professor of Philosophy, University of Notre Dame, with comments by Carrie Lukas, Vice President, Independent Women's Forum.
Hard Truths about Energy (11/27/07)
A Cato Institute Policy Forum featuring: Joseph Caggiano, Senior Consultant, Chevron Energy Technology Company; David K. Bellman, Director of Fundamental Analysis, Corporate Planning and Budgeting, American Electric Power; and Richard Gordon, Professor Emeritus of Mineral Economics, Pennsylvania State University.
Cato Institute Policy Perspectives 2007 (11/27/07)
A Cato Institute City Seminar.
After War: The Political Economy of Exporting Democracy (11/26/07)
A Cato Institute Book Forum.
Featuring the author Christopher J. Coyne, Assistant Professor of Economics, West Virginia University, with comments by Jack Goldstone, Virginia E. and John T. Hazel Jr. Professor and Eminent Scholar, George Mason School of Public Policy, and Tamara Cofman Wittes, Senior Fellow, Saban Center for Middle East Policy, The Brookings Institution. Moderated by Christopher Preble, Director of Foreign Policy Studies, Cato Institute.
Thriving or Threatened? Perspectives on the State of U.S. Manufacturing in a Global Economy (11/15/07)
A Cato Institute Capitol Hill Briefing featuring Dan Ikenson, Center for Trade Policy Studies, Cato Institute, and Frank Vargo, National Association of Manufacturers.
Discover Your Inner Economist: Use Incentives to Fall in Love, Survive Your Next Meeting, and Motivate Your Dentist (11/15/07)
A Cato Institute Book Forum featuring the author, Tyler Cowen, Holbert C. Harris Professor of Economics, George Mason University; New York Times Columnist; and Coauthor of the Marginal Revolution Blog, with comments by Emily Yoffe, Journalist and Slate "Dear Prudence" Columnist.
25th Annual Monetary Conference: Monetary Arrangements in the 21st Century (11/14/07)
A Cato Institute Conference. Featured speakers include: Ben S. Bernanke, Chairman, Board of Governors, Federal Reserve System; Eddie Yue, Deputy Chief Executive, Hong Kong Monetary Authority; Yi Gang, Assistant Governor, People's Bank of China; and Miranda Xafa, Executive Board, IMF.
How Nations Prosper: Economic Freedom and Doing Business in 2008 (11/9/07)
A Cato Institute Book Forum featuring James Gwartney, Coauthor, Economic Freedom of the World: 2007 Annual Report (Fraser Institute and Cato Institute, 2007) and Simeon Djankov, Lead Author, Doing Business 2008 (World Bank, 2007).
The Best-Laid Plans: How Government Planning Harms Your Quality of Life, Your Pocketbook, and Your Future (10/30/07)
A Cato Institute Book Forum featuring the author, Randal O’Toole, Senior Fellow, Cato Institute. Comments by John Charles, President, Cascade Policy Institute and David Hunnicutt, President, Oregonians in Action.
Is the Welfare State Justified? (10/29/07)
A Cato Institute Policy Forum featuring Daniel Shapiro, Associate Professor of Philosophy, West Virginia University, with comments by Jason Furman, Senior Fellow and Director of the Hamilton Project, Brookings Institute and Will Wilkinson, Policy Analyst and Managing Editor of Cato Unbound, Cato Institute.
Should American Workers Fear or Embrace Globalization? (10/25/07)
A Cato Institute Book Forum featuring Jagdish Bhagwati, Author, In Defense of Globalization and Matthew Slaughter, Tuck School of Business, Dartmouth University.
The Best-Laid Plans: Why Congress Should Repeal Federal Planning Laws (10/24/07)
A Cato Institute Book Forum featuring the author Randal O’Toole,
Senior Fellow, Cato Institute with comments by Robert Nelson, Professor of Public Policy, University of Maryland and
Ron Utt, Senior Research Fellow, Heritage Foundation.
Cato Institute Policy Perspectives 2007 (10/23/07)
A Cato Institute City Seminar.
A seminar luncheon in cooperation with the Donald and Paula Smith Family Foundation. Featuring Steve Forbes, President and CEO of Forbes and Editor-in-Chief of Forbes magazine, and Randal O'Toole, Senior Fellow, Cato Institute.
Taiwan's Defense Budget: How Taipei's Free Riding Risks War (10/9/07)
A Cato Institute Capitol Hill Briefing featuring Justin Logan, Cato Institute, and Ted Galen Carpenter, Cato Institute.
"I Don't Want Money. I Want Trade Agreements" (9/28/07)
A Cato Institute Policy Address featuring Abdoulaye Wade, President, Republic of Senegal.
Cato Club 200 (9/27-30/07)
A Cato Institute Conference. By invitation only.
Doing Business in Africa (9/26/07)
A Cato Institute Policy Forum featuring Strive Masiyiwa, CEO, Econet Wireless International and Henry Posner III, Chairman, Railroad Development Corporation.
Thriving or Threatened? Perspectives on the State of U.S. Manufacturing in a Global Economy (9/25/07)
A Cato Institute Policy Forum featuring: Lewis Leibowitz, Consuming Industries Trade Action Coalition; Lloyd Wood, American Manufacturing Trade Action Coalition; Robert Scott, Economic Policy Institute; and Dan Ikenson,
Cato Institute.
Should the Government Insert Itself between Dying Patients and Unproven Therapies? (9/25/07)
A Cato Institute Policy Forum featuring J. Scott Ballenger, Partner, Latham & Watkins; Ezekiel J. Emanuel, Chair, Department of Clinical Bioethics, National Institutes of Health; and Michael F. Cannon, Director of Health Policy Studies, Cato Institute.
Assessing the Surge (9/20/07)
A Cato Institute Policy Forum featuring Christopher Preble, Director of Foreign Policy Studies, Cato Institute; James Dobbins, Director, International Security and Defense Policy Center, RAND Corporation; Clifford D. May, President, Foundation for the Defense of Democracies; Marc Lynch, Professor of Political Science, George Washington University; and moderated by Ted Galen Carpenter, Vice President for Defense and Foreign Policy Studies, Cato Institute.
Feds in the Classroom: How Big Government Corrupts, Cripples, and Compromises American Education (9/18/07)
A Cato Institute Book Forum featuring the author, Neal McCluskey, Policy Analyst, Center for Educational Freedom, Cato Institute, with comments by
Michael Petrilli, Vice President, National Programs and Policy, Thomas B. Fordham Foundation, and moderated by
David Hoff, Associate Editor, Education Week.
6th Annual Constitution Day (9/17/07)
A Cato Institute Conference.
Sinking SCHIP: A First Step toward Stopping the Growth of Government Health Programs (9/13/07)
A Cato Institute Capitol Hill Briefing featuring Michael F. Cannon, Cato Institute and Patrick Fleenor, Chief Economist, Tax Foundation.
Immigrants: Your Country Needs Them (9/12/07)
A Cato Institute Book Forum featuring the author, Philippe Legrain, with comments by Stuart Anderson, National Foundation for American Policy.
Until Proven Innocent: Political Correctness and the Shameful Injustices of the Duke Lacrosse Rape Case (9/11/07)
A Cato Institute Book Forum featuring the coauthor Stuart Taylor Jr.
Senior Writer, National Journal, with comments by Victoria Toensing, Former Deputy Assistant Attorney General, Criminal Division, Justice Department.
Should Congress Reauthorize NCLB? (9/5/07)
A Cato Institute Capitol Hill Briefing featuring Rep. Scott Garrett (R-NJ), Andrew Coulson, Cato Institute, and Neal McCluskey, Cato Institute.
"War on Drugs, a War on Ourselves" (8/31/07)
A Cato Institute Capitol Hill Briefing. With comments by Timothy Lynch, Director, Project on Criminal Justice, Cato Institute.
"John Stossel Goes to Washington" (8/24/07)
A Cato Institute Capitol Hill Briefing. With comments by Stephen Slivinski, Director of Budget Studies, Cato Institute.
"Stupid in America" (8/17/07)
A Cato Institute Capitol Hill Briefing. With comments by Neal McCluskey, Education Policy Analyst, Cato Institute.
Freedomnomics: Why the Free Market Works and Other Half-Baked Theories Don't (8/14/07)
A Cato Institute Book Forum featuring the author, John R. Lott Jr., Senior Research Scientist, University of Maryland, with comments by Jared Bernstein, Director, Living Standards Program, Economic Policy Institute, and Michael New, Assistant Professor of Political Science, University of Alabama.
A Tragic Legacy: How a Good vs. Evil Mentality Destroyed the Bush Presidency (8/7/07)
A Cato Institute Book Forum featuring the author, Glenn Greenwald, with comments by Lee Casey, Partner, Baker Hostetler.
The End of Campaign Finance Reform? (8/2/07)
A Cato Institute Capitol Hill Briefing featuring Rep. Mike Pence (R-IN) and John Samples, Director, Center for Representative Government, Cato Institute.
Giving Land Rights to the World's Poor (7/31/07)
A Cato Institute Policy Forum featuring Tim Hanstad, President, Rural Development Institute.
The Perfect Firestorm: Controlling Forest Service Wildfire Costs (7/26/07)
A Cato Institute Policy Forum featuring Randal O'Toole, Senior Fellow, Cato Institute, Douglas Crandall, Policy Director, Society of American Foresters, and James Hubbard, State & Private Forestry, Forest Service.
America's High-Stakes Response to the WTO Internet Gambling Dispute (7/25/07)
A Cato Institute Policy Forum featuring Mark Mendel, Lead Counsel for Antigua and Barbuda in US-Gambling, John H. Jackson, Georgetown University Law Center, and Sallie James, Trade Policy Analyst, Cato Institute.
Cato University (7/22-27/07)
A Cato Institute Conference.
Funding the REAL ID Act: Improved Homeland Security or More Washington Waste? (7/20/07)
A Cato Institute Capitol Hill Briefing featuring: David Williams, Vice President of Policy, Citizens Against Government Waste; Andrew Moylan, Government Affairs Manager, National Taxpayers Union; and Jim Harper, Director of Information Policy Studies, Cato Institute.
Medicaid's Soaring Costs: Time to Step on the Brakes (7/19/07)
A Cato Institute Capitol Hill Briefing featuring Sen. Judd Gregg (R-NH), Member, Senate Budget Committee, Jagadeesh Gokhale, Cato Institute, and John Holahan, Urban Institute.
America's Next Steps in Iraq (7/18/07)
A Cato Institute Capitol Hill Briefing featuring Senator Chuck Hagel (R-NE), introduced by Christopher Preble, Director of Foreign Policy Studies, Cato Institute.
The Myth of the Rational Voter (7/17/07)
A Cato Institute Book Forum featuring Bryan Caplan, Associate Professor of Economics, George Mason University, with comments by Scott Keeter, Director of Survey Research, Pew Research Center, Coauthor of What Americans Know about Politics and Why It Matters, and Will Wilkinson, Policy Analyst and Managing Editor of Cato Unbound, Cato Institute.
Barry Goldwater: Life, Liberty, and Legacy (7/12/07)
A Cato Institute Book Forum featuring: CC Goldwater, Granddaughter of Barry Goldwater; Producer, Mr. Conservative: Goldwater on Goldwater; Editor, The Conscience of a Conservative (Princeton University Press edition, 2007). Lee Edwards, Distinguished Fellow in Conservative Thought, Heritage Foundation; Press Secretary, Goldwater for President; Author, Goldwater: The Man Who Made a Revolution. Franklin Foer, Editor, The New Republic. Edward H. Crane, President, Cato Institute; Precinct Captain, Berkeley, Calif., Goldwater for President.
The Massachusetts Health Plan: A Progress Report (6/28/07)
A Cato Institute Capitol Hill Briefing featuring David A. Hyman, Professor of Law and Medicine, University of Illinois and Edmund F. Haislmaier, Senior Research Fellow in Health Policy Studies, Heritage Foundation. Moderated by Michael F. Cannon, Director of Health Policy Studies, Cato Institute.
Who Owns Your Health Care? (6/22/07)
A Cato Institute Capitol Hill Briefing featuring John R. Graham, Director of Health Care Studies, Pacific Research Institute and Michael F. Cannon, Director of Health Policy Studies, Cato Institute.
Health Care on Film: Clips from SiCKO and Its Competitors (6/21/07)
A Cato Institute Capitol Hill Briefing. With comments by: Stuart Browning, Fellow, Moving Picture Institute; Michael F. Cannon, Director of Health Policy Studies, Cato Institute; and Ezra Klein, Writing Fellow, American Prospect.
Trade Promotion Authority, R.I.P.? (6/18/07)
A Cato Institute Capitol Hill Briefing featuring the Hon. Cal Dooley, President and CEO, Grocery Manufacturers/Food Products Association, and Daniel Griswold, Director, Center for Trade Policy Studies, Cato Institute.
Rethinking the U.S. Embargo against Cuba (6/14/07)
A Cato Institute Capitol Hill Briefing featuring: Rep. Charles Rangel (D-NY), Chairman, House Ways & Means Committee; Rep. Jeff Flake (R-AZ); and moderated by Sallie James, Trade Policy Analyst, Cato Institute.
In Defense of Our America: The Fight for Civil Liberties in the Age of Terror (6/5/07)
A Cato Institute Book Forum featuring the co-authors, Anthony Romero, Executive Director, American Civil Liberties Union, and Dina Temple-Raston.
Lies, Damned Lies, and Drug War Statistics: A Critical Analysis of Claims Made by the Office of National Drug Control Policy (5/31/07)
A Cato Institute Book Forum featuring the authors: Matthew B. Robinson, Associate Professor of Criminal Justice, Appalachian State University and Renee G. Scherlen, Associate Professor of Political Science, Appalachian State University; with comments by Dr. David Murray, Senior Policy Analyst, Office of National Drug Control Policy; moderated by Timothy Lynch, Director, Project on Criminal Justice, Cato Institute.
The Age of Abundance: How Prosperity Transformed America's Politics and Culture (5/30/07)
A Cato Institute Book Forum featuring the author, Brink Lindsey, Vice President for Research, Cato Institute, with comments by David Brooks, New York Times.
Health Savings Accounts: Not Entirely Consumer Directed (Yet) (5/24/07)
A Cato Institute Policy Forum featuring: Michael F. Cannon, Director of Health Policy Studies, Cato Institute; Katherine Baicker, Member, Council of Economic Advisers; Jason Furman, Senior Fellow and Director, The Hamilton Project; moderated by William A. Niskanen, Chairman, Cato Institute.
Are Civil Liberties at Risk in the War on Terror? (5/24/07)
A Cato Institute Policy Forum featuring Bruce Fein, Chairman, American Freedom Agenda; Andrew C. McCarthy, Director, Center for Law & Counterterrorism
Foundation for Defense of Democracies; and Moderated by Timothy Lynch,
Director, Project on Criminal Justice, Cato Institute.
Freeing the Farm: A Farm Bill for All Americans (5/23/07)
A Cato Institute Capitol Hill Briefing featuring Sen. John Sununu (R, NH) and Sallie James, Cato Institute.
The Alternative Minimum Tax: Reform or Repeal? (5/18/07)
A Cato Institute Capitol Hill Briefing featuring: Rep. Phil English (R-PA), Ranking Member, Select Revenue Measures Subcommittee, Co-Chairman, Zero AMT Caucus; Chris Edwards, Cato Institute; and moderated by Daniel Mitchell, Cato Institute.
Invasion of the Party Snatchers: How the Holy-Rollers and the Neo-Cons Destroyed the GOP (5/10/07)
A Cato Institute Book Forum featuring the author, Victor Gold.
Cato Institute Policy Perspectives 2007 (5/8/07)
A Cato Institute City Seminar. A seminar luncheon in cooperation with the Donald and Paula Smith Family Foundation.
Featuring Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Author, Infidel (Simon & Schuster), and Sen. John Sununu (R-NH).
This event is sold out.
Registration is now closed.
Global Warming: Some Convenient Facts (5/7/07)
A Cato Institute Capitol Hill Briefing featuring: Patrick J. Michaels, Senior Fellow in Environmental Studies, Cato Institute, Professor of Environmental Sciences, University of Virginia and Jerry Taylor, Senior Fellow, Cato Institute.
The End of Alliances (5/1/07)
A Cato Institute Book Forum featuring the author, Rajan Menon, Monroe J. Rathbone Professor of International Relations, Lehigh University; with comments by Michael Mandelbaum, Christian A. Herter Professor of American Foreign Policy, Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies; and Doug Bandow, Vice President of Policy, Citizens Outreach.
Freeing the Farm: A Farm Bill for All Americans (4/26/07)
A Cato Institute Policy Forum featuring: David Orden,International Food Policy Research Institute; Clayton Yeutter, Former Secretary of Agriculture and United States Trade Representative; and Sallie James, Trade Policy Analyst, Cato Institute.
FEC v. Wisconsin Right to Life, McCain v. Wisconsin Right to Life, Does the First Amendment Protect Political Speech? (4/25/07)
A Cato Institute Center For Constitutional Studies Oral Argument Debriefing featuring James Bopp Jr., James Madison Center for Free Speech; Kathleen M. Sullivan, Stanford University Law School; Richard L. Hasen, Loyola Law School, Los Angeles; and Martin S. Lederman, Georgetown University Law Center.
Curing the Trust Crisis in Health Care (4/20/07)
A Cato Institute Policy Forum featuring: David A. Shore, Director of Trust Initiative and Associate Dean, Harvard School of Public Health, and editor of The Trust Crisis in Healthcare: Causes, Consequences, and Cures (2007); with comments by L. Stephan Vincze, Vice President, Ethics and Compliance Officer, Privacy Officer, TAP Pharmaceutical Products; and Heidi Li Feldman, Prof. of Law, Georgetown Law Center; moderated by Sigrid Fry-Revere, Director of Bioethics Studies, Cato Institute.
Calm before the Storm? Developments in U.S. Trade Remedy Laws (4/17/07)
A Cato Institute Policy Forum featuring Rep. Phil English (R-PA);
David Hartquist, Committee to Support U.S. Trade Laws;
Daniel Porter,
Vinson and Elkins, LLP; and
Daniel Ikenson, Cato Institute.
Should the United States Be More Like Scandinavia? (4/16/07)
A Cato Institute Policy Forum featuring Johnny Munkhammar, Program Director, Timbro, Sweden; Ezra Klein Writing Fellow, American Prospect;
and Dan Mitchell, Senior Fellow, Cato Institute.
Economic Reforms in Egypt (4/12/07)
A Cato Institute Policy Forum featuring Youssef Boutros Ghali, Minister of Finance, Egypt.
South Africa's Democracy: Dynamic or Defective? (4/11/07)
A Cato Institute Policy Forum featuring Tony Leon, MP
Leader, Democratic Alliance.
The Economics and Ethics of the Welfare State (4/10/07)
A Cato Institute Policy Forum featuring Leszek Balcerowicz,
Former President of the National Bank of Poland and Former Minister of Finance, Poland.
David's Hammer: The Case for an Activist Judiciary (4/3/07)
A Cato Institute Book Forum featuring the author, Clint Bolick; with comments by M. Edward Whelan III, President, Ethics and Public Policy Center; and Jeffrey Rosen, Author, The Supreme Court: The Personalities and Rivalries That Defined America.
What Should Be a Culture of Enterprise in an Age of Globalization? (3/29/07)
A Cato Institute Conference. This inaugural conference features presentations by all recipients of the prestigious 2006 Templeton Enterprise Awards.
The Dangers of Disclosure: The Unintended Consequences of Campaign Regulations for Free Speech and Privacy (3/27/07)
A Cato Institute Policy Forum featuring Steve Simpson,
Senior Attorney, Institute for Justice;
Dick Carpenter, Director of Strategic Research, Institute for Justice;
Stephen Weissman,
Associate Director for Policy, Campaign Finance Institute; and
John Samples,
Director, Center for Representative Government, Cato Institute.
D.C. Gun Ban in the Cross Hairs (3/22/07)
A Cato Institute Policy Forum featuring: Alan Gura, Gura & Possessky, PLLC; and Robert A. Levy, Senior Fellow in Constitutional Studies, Cato Institute.
Radicals for Capitalism: A Freewheeling History of the Modern American Libertarian Movement (3/22/07)
A Cato Institute Book Forum featuring the author, Brian Doherty; with comments by E. J. Dionne Jr., Columnist, Washington Post, Senior Fellow, Brookings Institution; and moderator David Boaz, Executive Vice President, Cato Institute, Author, Libertarianism: A Primer.
Does the Record Trade Deficit Threaten the U.S. Economy? (3/21/07)
A Cato Institute Capitol Hill Briefing featuring Dan Griswold, Director of the Center for Trade Policy Studies, Cato Institute.
Escaping the Trap: The Case for Withdrawal from Iraq (3/14/07)
A Cato Institute Policy Forum featuring: Lt. Gen. William Odom, USA (Ret.), Senior Fellow, Hudson Institute, Director, National Security Agency, 1985-1988; Steven Simon, Hasib J. Sabbagh Senior Fellow for Middle Eastern Studies, Council on Foreign Relations; and Ted Galen Carpenter, Vice President for Defense and Foreign Policy Studies, Cato Institute.
The REAL ID Act: Unfixed by the Regs and Unworkable on any Time Frame (3/12/07)
A Cato Institute Capitol Hill Briefing featuring: Jim Harper, Director of Information Policy Studies, Cato Institute; Tim Sparapani, Legislative Counsel, American Civil Liberties Union; and David Williams, Vice President of Policy, Citizens Against Government Waste.
Facing a Challenge of the Current Era: Environmentalism (3/9/07)
A Cato Institute Policy Forum featuring Václav Klaus, President of the Czech Republic.
A Skeptical Look at Grassroots Lobbying Disclosure (3/9/07)
A Cato Institute Capitol Hill Briefing featuring: Marvin Johnson, Legislative Counsel, American Civil Liberties Union; Mark Fitzgibbons, President, Corporate and Legal Affairs, AmericanTarget Advertising, Inc.; Stephen Hoersting, Executive Director, Center for Competitive Politics; and John Samples, Director, Center for Representative Government Cato Institute.
NCLB and the Future of Federal Education Policy (3/7/07)
A Cato Institute Conference featuring Martin A. Davis, Jr., Senior Writer and Editor, Thomas B. Fordham Foundation; Dan Lips, Education Analyst in Domestic Policy Studies, Heritage Foundation; Andrew J. Rotherham, Co-Director, Education Sector; Dick Armey, Chairman, FreedomWorks, former House Majority Leader; Susan B. Neuman, Professor in Educational Studies, University of Michigan,
Former Assistant Secretary for Elementary and Secondary Education; Neal McCluskey, Policy Analyst, Center for Educational Freedom, Cato Institute; and Andrew J. Coulson, Director, Center for Educational Freedom, Cato Institute.
Chicago City Seminar Luncheon Featuring P. J. O'Rourke (2/22/07)
A Cato Institute City Seminar featuring P.J. O'Rourke, Author of On the Wealth of Nations (Atlantic Monthly Press, January 2007) with welcoming remarks by Susan Chamberlin, Vice President for Government Affairs, Cato Institute and an introduction by Sallie James, Trade Policy Analyst, Cato Institute.
Ronald Reagan: Fate, Freedom, and the Making of History (2/22/07)
A Cato Institute Book Forum featuring the author, John Patrick Diggins, Professor of History, City University of New York Graduate Center; with comments by Jonathan Clarke, Senior Fellow, Carnegie Council and Steven Hayward, F. K. Weyerhaeuser Fellow, American Enterprise Institute.
Benefactor Summit 2007 (2/21-25/07)
A Cato Institute Conference.
Do NGOs Harm Growth in the Developing World? (2/20/07)
A Cato Institute Policy Forum featuring: Alan Oxley, Chairman, World Growth, Former Chairman of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT); with comments by Donald R. Sherk,
Program Officer for Africa, Center for International Private Enterprise, Former U.S. Executive Director, African Development Bank; and moderated by Marian Tupy, Policy Analyst, Cato Institute.
Leviathan on the Right: How Big-Government Conservatism Brought Down the Republican Revolution (2/15/07)
A Cato Institute Book Forum featuring the author, Michael Tanner, Director of Health & Welfare Studies, Cato Institute; with comments by Daniel Casse, Senior director of the White House Writers Group and former special assistant to President Bush; and Dick Armey, Former House Majority Leader.
Book Seminar w/ Charles Fried (2/15/07)
A Cato Institute Book Forum.
Playing Monopoly with the Devil: Dollarization and Domestic Currencies in Developing Countries (2/14/07)
A Cato Institute Book Forum featuring the author, Manuel Hinds, former minister of finance of El Salvador; with comments by Steve Hanke, Professor of applied economics at Johns Hopkins University, and Senior Fellow, Cato Institute.
The Federal Budget Outlook (2/14/07)
A Cato Institute Capitol Hill Briefing featuring Rep. John Campbell (R-CA); Chris Edwards, Director of Tax Policy Studies, Cato Institute; Stephen Slivinski, Director of Budget Studies, Cato Institute; and Dan Mitchell, Senior Fellow, Cato Institute.
The Silence of the Rational Center: Why American Foreign Policy Is Failing (2/13/07)
A Cato Institute Book Forum featuring the coauthor, Stefan Halper, Senior Fellow and Director of the Donner Atlantic Studies Programme at the Centre of International Studies, Cambridge University; with comments by Chester A. Crocker, James R. Schlesinger Professor of Strategic Studies, Georgetown University, and Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs (1981–89); Martin Walker, Editor Emeritus, United Press International and Director of the Global Business Policy Council; and Thomas Omestad, Senior Writer/Diplomatic Correspondent, U.S. News & World Report.
A Standard Deduction for Health Insurance: Something New under the Sun? (2/2/07)
A Cato Institute Capitol Hill Briefing featuring Katherine Baicker, Member, Council of Economic Advisers; Leonard Burman, Director, Urban-Brookings Tax Policy Center and co-author of "The President's Health Insurance Proposal - A First Look"; and Michael F. Cannon, Director of Health Policy Studies, Cato Institute, and co-author of Healthy Competition: What’s Holding Back Health Care and How to Free It.
Registration is closed for this event.
Boston City Seminar Luncheon Featuring P. J. O'Rourke (1/29/07)
A Cato Institute City Seminar featuring P.J. O'Rourke, Author of On the Wealth of Nations (Atlantic Monthly Press, January 2007) with welcoming remarks by Susan Chamberlin, Vice President for Government Affairs, Cato Institute.
Iran's Nuclear Program: The Costs and Benefits of America's Policy Options (1/25/07)
A Cato Institute Capitol Hill Briefing featuring: Ted Galen Carpenter, Vice President for Foreign Policy and Defense Studies, Cato Institute, Author of "Iran's Nuclear Program: America's Policy Options"; and Justin Logan, Foreign policy analyst, Cato Institute, Author of "The Bottom Line on Iran: The Costs and Benefits of Preventive War versus Deterrence."
Why We Fight: Do Public Schools Cause Social Conflict? (1/23/07)
A Cato Institute Policy Forum featuring: Neal McCluskey, Policy Analyst, Center for Educational Freedom, Cato Institute; Charles Haynes, Senior Scholar and Director of Education Programs, Freedom Forum First Amendment Center; and Gerald Bracey, Associate, High/Scope Educational Research Foundation.
Identity Crisis: How Identification Is Overused and Misunderstood (1/18/07)
A Cato Institute Book Forum featuring the author Jim Harper,
Director of Information Policy Studies,
Cato Institute; with comments by
James Lewis,
Director and Senior Fellow, Technology and Public Policy Program
Center for Strategic and International Studies; and Jay Stanley,
Public Education Director, Technology and Liberty Project
American Civil Liberties Union.
New York City Seminar Luncheon Featuring P. J. O'Rourke (1/16/07)
A Cato Institute City Seminar featuring P.J. O'Rourke, Author of On the Wealth of Nations (Atlantic Monthly Press, January 2007) with welcoming remarks by Edward H. Crane, President, Cato Institute.
Has U.S. Income Inequality Increased? (1/11/07)
A Cato Institute Policy Forum featuring Alan Reynolds, Cato Institute;
Diana Furchtgott-Roth, Hudson Institute; and Gary Burtless, Brookings Institution.
On the Wealth of Nations (1/9/07)
A Cato Institute Book Forum featuring the author, P. J. O'Rourke, America's leading political humorist and Cato H. L. Mencken research fellow.
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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)