Events: Ian Vásquez

June 21, 2013

Global Crossings: Immigration, Civilization, and America

Featuring the author Alvaro Vargas Llosa, Senior Fellow, The Center on Global Prosperity, Independent Institute; with comments by Alex Nowrasteh, Immigration Policy Analyst, Cato Institute; moderated by Ian Vásquez, Director, Center For Global Liberty And Prosperity, Cato Institute.

June 18, 2013

Poverty and Progress: Realities and Myths about Global Poverty

Featuring the author Deepak Lal, Professor Emeritus of International Development Studies, University of California at Los Angeles, Senior Fellow, Cato Institute; with comments by Marcus Noland, Senior Fellow, Peterson Institute for International Economics; moderated by Ian Vasquez, Director, Center for Global Liberty and Prosperity, Cato Institute.

June 11, 2013

India Grows at Night: A Liberal Case for a Strong State

Featuring the author Gurcharan Das, Former CEO of Procter & Gamble, India; with comments by Swaminathan Aiyar, Research Fellow, Center for Global Liberty and Prosperity, Cato Institute; moderated by Ian Vasquez, Director, Center for Global Liberty and Prosperity, Cato Institute.

June 5, 2013

The Problem with Europe’s Austerity Debate

Featuring Simeon Djankov, Former Deputy Prime Minister and Finance Minister, Bulgaria, Creator and former lead author of Doing Business (World Bank); and Anders Aslund, Senior Fellow, Peterson Institute for International Economics; moderated by Ian Vasquez, Director, Center for Global Liberty and Prosperity, Cato Institute.

March 19, 2013

The Future of Freedom in Cuba

Featuring Yoani Sanchez, Dissident blogger, Generation Y; and Orlando Luis Pardo Lazo, Photographer and Editor, Voces; moderated by Ian Vasquez, Director, Center for Global Liberty and Prosperity, Cato Institute.

January 17, 2013

Madmen, Intellectuals and Academic Scribblers

Featuring the authors Wayne Leighton, Professor of Economics, Francisco Marroquin University, Guatemala; and Edward Lopez, BB&T Distinguished Professor of Capitalism at Western Carolina University; with comments by Fred Smith, Founder and Chairman, Competitive Enterprise Institute; moderated by Ian Vásquez, Director, Center for Global Liberty and Prosperity, Cato Institute.

October 10, 2012

Europe’s Crisis and the Welfare State: Lessons for the United States

Featuring: John Allison; Josef Joffe, Publisher & Editor, Die Zeit, and Fellow in International Relations, Hoover Institution; Ian Vasquez, Director, Cato Institute Center for Global Liberty and Prosperity; Jagadeesh Gokhale, Senior Fellow, Cato Institute; Marian Tupy, Policy Analyst, Cato Institute Center for Global Liberty and Prosperity; Veronique de Rugy, Senior Research Fellow, Mercatus Center; Juhan Parts, Minister of Economic Affairs, Estonia.

September 18, 2012

Release of the 2012 Economic Freedom of the World Report

featuring co-author Robert Lawson, Fullinwider Chair in Economic Freedom, Southern Methodist University; co-author James Gwartney, director, Stavros Center for the Advancement of Free Enterprise and Economic Education, Florida State University; and Ian Vasquez, director, Center for Global Liberty and Prosperity, Cato Institute.

September 10, 2012

Does the Middle East Need U.S. Aid? Implications for Israeli Security and Prosperity

Featuring Robert Sauer, President, Jerusalem Institute for Market Studies; Corinne Sauer, Executive Director, Jerusalem Institute for Market Studies; and Doug Bandow, Senior Fellow, Cato Institute; moderated by Ian Vasquez, Director, Center for Global Liberty and Prosperity, Cato Institute.

May 22, 2012

Breakout Nations: In Pursuit of the Next Economic Miracles

Featuring the author Ruchir Sharma, Head of Emerging Market Equities and Global Macro, Morgan Stanley Investment Management; with comments by Swaminathan S. Anklesaria Aiyar, Research Fellow, Center for Global Liberty and Prosperity, Cato Institute; moderated by Ian Vasquez, Director, Center for Global Liberty and Prosperity, Cato Institute.

April 4, 2012

Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty

Featuring the coauthor Daron Acemoglu, Killian Professor of Economics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; with comments by Karla Hoff, Senior Research Economist, Development Economics Group, World Bank; moderated by Ian Vasquez, Director, Center for Global Liberty and Prosperity, Cato Institute.

November 15, 2011

Ending the Global War on Drugs

Featuring Fernando Henrique Cardoso, Former President, Brazil; Jorge Castañeda, Former Minister of Foreign Affairs, Mexico; Mary Anastasia O’Grady, Member of the Editorial Board, Wall Street Journal; Luis Alberto Lacalle Pou, Speaker of the House of Deputies, Uruguay; Glenn Greenwald, Columnist and Blogger, Salon; Leigh Maddox, Board Member, Law Enforcement Against Prohibition Professor, University of Maryland Francis Carey School of Law; Ethan Nadelmann, Executive Director, Drug Policy Alliance; Tucker Carlson, Editor-in-Chief, Daily Caller.