Event Archives - 2009

November 10

The Failure of Social Policy in Venezuela

Featuring María Corina Machado, President, Súmate. Moderated by Ian Vásquez, Director, Center for Global Liberty and Prosperity, Cato Institute.

November 6

Mad about Trade: Why Main Street America Should Embrace Globalization

Featuring the author, Daniel Griswold, Director, Center for Trade Policy Studies, Cato Institute; with comments by Steven Pearlstein, Business and economy columnist, The Washington Post. Moderated by Daniel J. Ikenson, Associate Director, Center for Trade Policy Studies, Cato Institute.

November 6

Cato Institute Policy Perspectives 2009

Featuring Edward H. Crane, President, Cato Institute, John H. Cochrane, AQR Capital Management Professor of Finance, University of Chicago Booth School of Business, and Adjunct Scholar, Cato Institute; Michael Cannon, Director of Health Policy Studies, Cato Institute; Jerry Taylor, Senior Fellow, Cato Institute; and Clifford S. Asness, Managing & Founding Principal, AQR Capital Management.

November 5

Climate Change, Copenhagen, and Congress

Featuring Patrick J. Michaels, Senior Fellow in Environmental Studies, Cato Institute, and co-author, Climate of Extremes: Global Warming Science They Don’t Want You to Know.

November 4

Money, Greed, and God: Why Capitalism Is the Solution and Not the Problem

Featuring the author, Jay Richards, with comments by Doug Bandow, Senior Fellow, Cato Institute, and author, Beyond Good Intentions: A Biblical View of Politics. Moderated by Daniel Griswold, Director of the Center for Trade Policy Studies, Cato Institute, and author, Mad about Trade: Why Main Street America Should Embrace Globalization.

November 3

Can the United States Affect Iran’s Nuclear Ambitions?

Featuring Justin Logan, Associate Director of Foreign Policy Studies, Cato Institute and Matthew Duss, National Security Researcher, Center for American Progress.

November 2

The Soviet Story Movie Screening

Introductions by Andrejs Pildegovics, Latvia’s Ambassador to the U.S.

October 30

Tricked on Our Treats: Time to Rethink the U.S. Sugar Program

Featuring Daniel Griswold, Director, Center for Trade Policy Studies, Cato Institute; author, Mad About Trade; and William A. Reinsch, President, National Foreign Trade Council.

October 29

Atomic Obsession: Nuclear Alarmism from Hiroshima to Al Qaeda

Featuring the author, John Mueller, Woody Hayes Chair of National Security Studies, Ohio State University; Michael Krepon, Co-Founder, Henry L. Stimson Center; and Jeffrey G. Lewis, Director, Nuclear Strategy and Nonproliferation Initiative, New America Foundation. Moderated by Justin Logan, Associate Director of Foreign Policy Studies, Cato Institute.

October 29

Cato Institute Policy Perspectives 2009

Featuring: Edward H. Crane, President, Cato Institute; David Boaz, Executive Vice President, Cato Institute; Mark A. Calabria, Director of Financial Regulation Studies, Cato Institute; Jerry Taylor, Senior Fellow, Cato Institute; and Leo Melamed, Chairman Emeritus, CME Group, CEO of Melamed & Associates, Inc., and author of For Crying Out Loud: From Open Outcry to the Electronic Screen.

October 28

The Life and Impact of Ayn Rand

Featuring Jennifer Burns, Author, Goddess of the Market: Ayn Rand and the American Right (Oxford University Press, 2009); and Anne C. Heller, Author, Ayn Rand and the World She Made (Doubleday, 2009).

October 20

The Case for Tax Competition, Fiscal Sovereignty, and Financial Privacy

Bringing together experts from around the world, Cato’s tax competition conference will address a wide range of current and newly arising issues.