Improving Incentives for Federal Land Managers: The Case for Recreation Fees
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In 2004, Congress allowed federal land managers to charge recreation fees only for certain kinds of recreation. In general, while national...
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The Common Core: De Facto Federal Control of America’s Schools
Featuring Rep. Scott Garrett (R-NJ), Chairman of the Congressional Constitution Caucus; Neal McCluskey, Associate Director, Center for Educational Freedom, Cato Institute; and Lindsey Burke, Will Skillman Fellow in Education, Heritage Foundation; moderated by Laura Odato, Director of Government Affairs, Cato Institute.
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We are grateful to the Harry and Lynde Bradley Foundation and the Carthage Foundation whose support of the October 2012 Cato Conference “Europe’s Crisis and the Welfare State: Lessons for the United States” made possible this special issue of the Cato Journal.
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Jim Harper discusses the NSA scandal on The Blaze’s Wilkow!
June 18, 2013
Doug Bandow discusses Syria on CNN’s The Situation Room
June 18, 2013
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Nothing but Blood in Syrian Intervention for U.S.
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Instead of Free Trade, Have the Transatlantic Trade Talks
How has an intellectual consensus for free trade coexisted with these numerous and metastasizing affronts to it? Protectionism slipped the noose, that’s how.
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Poverty and Progress: Realities and Myths About Global Poverty
Renowned development economist Deepak Lal draws on 50 years of experience around the globe to describe developing-country realities and rectify misguided notions about economic progress.
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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.




