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April 25
Featuring Frederick W. Smith, Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer, FedEx Corporation; Andrew Morriss, D. Paul Jones Jr. & Charlene A. Jones Chairholder in Law and Professor of Business, University of Alabama; and James L. Smith, Cary M. Maguire Chair in Oil and Gas Management, Southern Methodist University; moderated by Jerry Taylor, Senior Fellow, Cato Institute.
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In the latest issue of Regulation magazine, M. Todd Henderson reviews last year’s brouhaha over health insurance and birth control. According to Henderson, lost in the firestorm about religion and feminism were larger lessons about health care policy and regulation. Also in this issue, Cato scholar Richard L. Gordon argues that new federal efforts to cut emissions are the result of longstanding legal and judicial mandates, not a sudden Obama administration push.
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Contrary to countless tales of its demise, U.S. manufacturing has always been strong relative to its own past and relative to other countries’ manufacturing sectors.
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More Bang for Your Buck
The Cato Institute tops a new measure of think tank performance in the United States, according to a recent report. Cato bested all other U.S. think tanks in the main category of “Aggregate Profile per Dollar Spent.” “I’m grateful to the Center for Global Development for showing that Cato gives its sponsors something I wish government gave more of to taxpayers: bang for the buck,” said Cato CEO John Allison.
February 22
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.
February 22
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.
February 20
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.
February 15
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.
February 14
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.
February 14
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.
February 13
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.
February 2
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.
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