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An Interdisciplinary Journal of Public Policy Analysis
Cato Journal is America's leading free-market public policy journal. Every issue is a valuable resource for scholars concerned with questions of public policy, yet it is written and edited to be accessible to the interested lay reader. Clive Crook of The Economist has called it "the most consistently interesting and provocative journal of its kind."

Cato Journal's stable of writers constitutes a veritable Who's Who in business, government, and academia. Recent contributors include James M. Buchanan, Richard Epstein, Ben Bernanke, Robert Higgs, Václav Klaus, Justin Yifu Lin, Allan H. Meltzer, Charles Murray, William Niskanen, Douglass C. North, José Piñera, Anna J. Schwartz, John B. Taylor, and Lawrence H. White.

ISSN 0273-3072

Current Issue

Volume 32 Number 2, Spring/Summer 2012

Monetary Reform in the Wake of Crisis

James A. Dorn
Editor's Note
(PDF, 2 pp., 43Kb)

Robert B. Zoellick and Sebastian Mallaby
The Eurozone Crisis and Global Monetary Reform: A Conversation
(PDF, 13 pp., 74Kb)

Jeffrey M. Lacker
Understanding the Interventionist Impulse of the Modern Central Bank
(PDF, 7 pp., 55Kb)

Allan H. Meltzer
Federal Reserve Policy in the Great Recession
(PDF, 9 pp., 73Kb)

John A. Allison
The Fed's Fatal Conceit
(PDF, 14 pp., 77Kb)

George Melloan
Only a Crisis Will Bring Money Reform
(PDF, 5 pp., 53Kb)

James Grant
Banking Dysfunction
(PDF, 9 pp., 70Kb)

Benn Steil
What Should a Central Bank (Not) Do?
(PDF, 7 pp., 79Kb)

George Selgin
L Street: Bagehotian Prescriptions for a 21st Century Money Market
(PDF, 30 pp., 131Kb)

Judy Shelton
Gold and Government
(PDF, 15 pp., 80Kb)

Richard H. Timberlake
From Constitutional to Fiat Money: The U.S. Experience
(PDF, 14 pp., 81Kb)

Kevin Dowd, Martin Hutchinson, and Gordon Kerr
The Coming Fiat Money Cataclysm and the Case for Gold
(PDF, 16 pp., 117Kb)

Ron Paul
Why Monetary Freedom Matters
(PDF, 6 pp., 53Kb)

William McBride and Kurt Schuler
Where Is Private Note Issue Legal?
(PDF, 16 pp., 86Kb)

Lawrence H. White
Making the Transition to a New Gold Standard
(PDF, 11 pp., 69Kb)

Roger W. Garrison
Natural Rates of Interest and Sustainable Growth
(PDF, 15 pp., 81Kb)

Gerald P. O'Driscoll, Jr.
Toward a Global Monetary Order
(PDF, 10 pp., 66Kb)

Book Reviews

Political Philosophy Clearly: Essays on Freedom and Fairness, Property and Equalities
by Anthony de Jasay
Reviewed by Aaron Ross Powell
(PDF, 4 pp., 80Kb)

Collision Course: Ronald Reagan, the Air Traffic Controllers, and the Strike that Changed America
by Joseph A. McCartin
Reviewed by Ivan Osorio
(PDF, 5 pp., 80Kb)

Does the Elephant Dance? Contemporary Indian Foreign Policy
by David M. Malone
Reviewed by Malou Innocent
(PDF, 4 pp., 80Kb)



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