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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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Contrary to countless tales of its demise, U.S. manufacturing has always been strong relative to its own past and relative to other countries’ manufacturing sectors.
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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.
James A. Dorn is the vice president for academic affairs, editor of the Cato Journal, and director of Cato’s annual monetary conference. His research interests include trade and human rights, economic reform in China, and the future of money. From 1984 to 1990, he served on the White House Commission on Presidential Scholars. He has lectured in Estonia, Germany, Hong Kong, Russia, and Switzerland and has directed international conferences in London, Shanghai, Moscow, and Mexico City. Dorn has been a visiting scholar at the Central European University in Prague and at Fudan University in Shanghai and is currently professor of economics at Towson University in Maryland. He has edited 10 books and his articles have appeared in numerous publications. Dorn holds a Ph.D. in economics from the University of Virginia.
Obama’s Minimum Wage Hike: A Case of Zombie Economics
Forbes.com. February 20, 2013.
End the Fed, Or Celebrate Its Existence? Reflections on Our Central Bank’s 100th Anniversary
Forbes.com. January 20, 2013.
Ben Bernanke’s QE4: Another Step Toward Helicopter Money, and Away from Freedom
Forbes.com. December 28, 2012.
James M. Buchanan (1919–2013), Friend of Liberty
January 10, 2013.
Cato Adjunct Scholar Richard Timberlake Turns 90
June 22, 2012.
Anna Jacobson Schwartz (1915–2012), RIP
June 21, 2012.
Ending Financial Repression in China
Economic Development Bulletin No. 5. January 26, 2006.
U.S.-China Relations in the Wake of CNOOC
Policy Analysis No. 553. November 2, 2005.
Beijing Review. September 8, 2011.
Prospect of a Global Trade War
Caixin: China 2011. January 2011.
The Rise of Government and the Decline of Morality
The Freeman. Vol. 60. No. 6. August 2010.
Testimony. August 22, 2006.
Ownership with Chinese Characteristics: Private Property Rights and Land Reform in the PRC
Testimony. February 3, 2003.
Public Hearing on China’s Capital Requirements and U. S. Capital Markets
Testimony. December 6, 2001.
The Role of China in the U.S. Debt Crisis
Cato Journal. Winter 2013.
Sustaining China’s Economic Growth after the Global Financial Crisis
Cato Journal. Fall 2012.
The Scope of Government in a Free Society
Cato Journal. Fall 2012.
Constitutional Money: A Review of the Supreme Court’s Monetary Decisions
April 24, 2013. Book Forum.
30th Annual Monetary Conference
November 15, 2012. Conference.
The Case against the Davis-Bacon Act: 54 Reasons for Repeal
October 17, 2012. Book Forum.
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