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April 25
Featuring Frederick W. Smith, Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer, FedEx Corporation; Andrew Morriss, D. Paul Jones Jr. & Charlene A. Jones Chairholder in Law and Professor of Business, University of Alabama; and James L. Smith, Cary M. Maguire Chair in Oil and Gas Management, Southern Methodist University; moderated by Jerry Taylor, Senior Fellow, Cato Institute.
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In the latest issue of Regulation magazine, M. Todd Henderson reviews last year’s brouhaha over health insurance and birth control. According to Henderson, lost in the firestorm about religion and feminism were larger lessons about health care policy and regulation. Also in this issue, Cato scholar Richard L. Gordon argues that new federal efforts to cut emissions are the result of longstanding legal and judicial mandates, not a sudden Obama administration push.
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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.
April 28, 2009
Featuring Tim Reif, General Counsel, Office of the U.S. Trade Representative; Anne Kim, Economic Program Director, Third Way; and Dan Ikenson, Associate Director, Center for Trade Policy Studies, Cato Institute.
July 11, 2008
Featuring Simeon Djankov, World Bank and Daniel Ikenson, Cato Institute
June 26, 2008
Featuring Steve Creskoff, Trade Lawyer, Creskoff and Doram LLP; J. Michael Finger, Initial World Bank Coordinator for the Integrated Framework; Bill Lane, Caterpillar, Inc.; and John Wilson, Lead Economist, World Bank. Moderated by Dan Ikenson, Cato Institute.
May 29, 2008
Featuring James A. Dorn, Cato Institute and Daniel J. Ikenson, Cato Institute.
November 15, 2007
Featuring Dan Ikenson, Center for Trade Policy Studies, Cato Institute, and Frank Vargo, National Association of Manufacturers.
September 25, 2007
Featuring: Lewis Leibowitz, Consuming Industries Trade Action Coalition; Lloyd Wood, American Manufacturing Trade Action Coalition; Robert Scott, Economic Policy Institute; and Dan Ikenson, Cato Institute.
April 17, 2007
Featuring Rep. Phil English (R-PA); David Hartquist, Committee to Support U.S. Trade Laws; Daniel Porter, Vinson and Elkins, LLP; and Daniel Ikenson, Cato Institute.
July 20, 2006
Featuring Dan Ikenson, associate director of the Cato Institute’s Center for Trade Policy Studies and Will Martin, lead economist at the World Bank’s Development Research Group.
June 21, 2006
Featuring Jagdish Bhagwati, Professor of Economics and Law, Columbia University, Senior Fellow in International Economics, Council on Foreign Relations and Daniel Ikenson, Associate Director, Center for Trade Policy Studies, Cato Institute
June 1, 2005
Featuring the author, Pietra Rivoli, Associate Professor, School of Business Administration, Georgetown University; with comments by Adam Davidson, International Business and Economics Correspondent, National Public Radio; and moderated by Daniel Ikenson, Policy Analyst, Center for Trade Policy Studies, Cato Institute.
March 30, 2005
Featuring Daniel T. Griswold, Director, Center for Trade Policy Studies, and Daniel J. Ikenson, Trade Policy Analyst, Center for Trade Policy Studies