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In the new issue of Cato Policy Report, Cato President and CEO John A. Allison argues that the Federal Reserve is increasing the long-term risk in our financial system through both its monetary and regulatory policies. Also in this issue, James D. Gwartney looks at the incomplete “public choice revolution,” and explains how mainstream economics is leaving both current students and the general public with a misleading, false, and romantic view of government and the operation of the democratic political process.
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News reports from China and France confirm that labor compensation is constantly rising.
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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.
Immigration and the Welfare State
Cato Journal. Winter 2012.
Introduction: Is Immigration Good for America?
Cato Journal. Winter 2012.
Peddling Protectionism: Smoot-Hawley and the Great Depression by Douglas A. Irwin
Cato Journal. Fall 2011.
Unions, Protectionism, and U.S. Competitiveness
Cato Journal. Winter 2010.
Termites in the Trading System: How Preferential Agreements Undermine Free Trade by Jagdish Bhagwati
Cato Journal. Fall 2008.
Freedom from Want: American Liberalism and the Global Economy by Edward Gresser
Cato Journal. Spring/Summer 2008.
Cato Journal. Fall 2006.
Cato's Letter. Spring 2005.
Globalization and Its Discontents by Joseph E. Stiglitz
Cato Journal. Winter 2003.
Free Trade Today by Jagdish Bhagwati
Cato Journal. Spring/Summer 2002.
Clinton’s Muddled Tale of Trade
Regulation. Summer 2001.
Seven Moral Arguments for Free Trade
Policy Report. July/August 2001.
Cato Journal. Winter 2000.
Cato Journal. Spring/Summer 1999.
Cato Journal. Spring/Summer 1998.
Clean Fast Track Not Clinton Fast Track
Regulation. Summer 1997.