Event Archives - 2011

June 30

The Declaration of Independents: How Libertarian Politics Can Fix What’s Wrong with America

Featuring the authors Nick Gillespie and Matt Welch; moderated by David Boaz, Cato Institute.

June 29

Turning the Page in Afghanistan

Featuring Joshua Rovner, U.S. Naval War College; Joshua Foust, American Security Project; Malou Innocent, Cato Institute; and Michael O’Hanlon, Brookings Institution; moderated by Justin Logan, Cato Institute.

June 28

How U.S. Antidumping Policy Undermines U.S. Competitiveness: A Pro-Reform Perspective

Featuring Gary Horlick, Esq., Law Offices of Gary N. Horlick; Lewis Leibowitz, Esq., Hogan Lovells; Marguerite Trossevin, Esq., Jochum Shore & Trossevin, PC; Robert La Frankie, Esq., Hughes Hubbard & Reed LLP; Matt Nicely, Esq., Thompson Hine LLP; Peggy Clarke, Esq., Blank Rome LLP; Daniel Porter, Esq., Winston &Strawn LLP; Daniel Ikenson, Associate Director, Herbert A. Stiefel Center for Trade Policy Studies, Cato Institute.

June 27

Cash for Care?

Featuring Lorens Helmchen, Associate Professor of Health Administration and Policy, George Mason University; Mark V. Pauly, Bendheim Professor, Professor of Health Care Management, The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania; moderated by Michael F. Cannon, Director of Health Policy Studies, Cato Institute.

June 22

Afghanistan and Pakistan after bin Laden

Featuring a presentation and live discussion with Malou Innocent, Foreign Policy Analyst, Cato Institute, coauthor, Escaping the ‘Graveyard of Empires’: A Strategy to Exit Afghanistan and author, Pakistan and the Future of U.S. Policy; moderated by Caleb O. Brown, Director of Multimedia.

June 20

Getting “No Child Left Behind” Right

Featuring Neal McCluskey, Associate Director, Center for Educational Freedom, Cato Institute; and Lindsey Burke, Education Policy Analyst, Heritage Foundation; moderated by Laura Renz, Government Affairs Manager, Cato Institute.

June 15

Resolved: America Should Legalize Drugs

Featuring Jeffrey Miron, Senior Fellow, Cato Institute; and Robert DuPont, M.D., President, Institute for Behavior and Health.

June 9

Why Leaders Lie: The Truth about Lying in International Politics

Featuring the author John J. Mearsheimer, R. Wendell Harrison Distinguished Service Professor of Political Science, University of Chicago; with comments by A. Trevor Thrall, George Mason University; and Ted Galen Carpenter, Cato Institute; moderated by Justin Logan, Cato Institute.

June 8

Which States Are Most Free?

Featuring Jason Sorens, University of Buffalo (SUNY); and William Ruger, Texas State University–San Marcos; with comments by Michael Barone, Washington Examiner and The Almanac of American Politics; moderated by John Samples, Cato Institute.

June 8

The Korea, Colombia, and Panama FTAs: Promoting Growth and Jobs through Trade

Featuring Dan Griswold, Director, Herbert A. Stiefel Center for Trade Policy Studies, Cato Institute; William C. Lane, Washington Director, Governmental Affairs for Caterpillar, Inc.; moderated by Brandon Arnold, Director of Government Affairs, Cato Institute.

June 2

Cato Papers on Public Policy

Featuring Michele Boldrin, Department of Economics, Washington University; Juan Correa, Department of Economics, Washington University; David Levine, Department of Economics, Washington University; Carmine Ornaghi, Department of Economics, University of Southhampton; Andy Atkeson, Department of Economics, UCLA; Sam Kortum, Department of Economics, University; Mark Ramseyer, Harvard Law School, Harvard University; Eric Rasmusen, Kelley School of Business, Indiana University; Frank Buckley, George Mason University Law; Efraim Benmelech, Department of Economics, Harvard University; Rafael Di Tella, Harvard Business School, Harvard University; Juan Dubra, Department of Economics, University of Montevideo; Glenn Loury, Department of Economics, Brown University; Justin McCrary, Boalt Law School, University of California, Berkeley; Lee Ohanian, Department of Economics, UCLA; Kyle Herkenhoff, Department of Economics, UCLA; Robert Hall, Department of Economics, Stanford University; John Leahy, Department of Economics, New York University.

June 1

India Twenty Years after Reform

Featuring Swaminathan Aiyar, Research Fellow, Center for Global Liberty and Prosperity, Cato Institute; Surjit Bhalla, Managing Director, Oxus Research and Investments; and Arvind Panagariya, Jagdish Bhagwati Professor of Indian Political Economy, Columbia University; moderated by Ian Vasquez, Director, Center for Global Liberty and Prosperity, Cato Institute.