Event Archives - 2009

March 31

Can the Market Provide Choice and Secure Health Coverage Even for High-Cost Illnesses?

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.

March 31

Obama’s Blueprint for Growing the Welfare State

Featuring Rep. Paul Ryan, Ranking Member, House Committee on the Budget; Chris Edwards, Senior Fellow, Cato Institute; and Michael Tanner, Senior Fellow, Cato Institute.

March 24

Georgia’s Liberal Institutions In the Wake of War and the Global Economic Crisis

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;

March 24

Cato Institute Policy Perspectives 2009

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.

March 23

The Tie Goes to Freedom: Justice Anthony M. Kennedy on Liberty

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;

March 23

Tax Havens Should Be Celebrated, Not Persecuted

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;

March 17

The Politics and Science of Medical Marijuana

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

March 13

Can the Pentagon Be Fixed?

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;

March 12

Transportation Reauthorization: Looking Beyond the Recession

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;

March 12

Climate of Extremes: Global Warming Science They Don’t Want You to Know

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.

March 8

21st Annual Benefactor Summit

By invitation only.

March 3

Should Government Deliver Comparative-Effectiveness Research — or Can It?

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;