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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, Milton Friedman, Alan Greenspan, 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 29 Number 3, Fall 2009

Andrei Shleifer
Peter Bauer and the Failure of Foreign Aid
(PDF, 12 pp., 104Kb)

David B. Skarbek and Peter T. Leeson
What Can Aid Do?
(PDF, 7 pp., 78Kb)

Michael Mitsopoulos and Theodore Pelagidis
Vikings in Greece: Kleptocratic Interest Groups in a Closed, Rent-Seeking Economy
(PDF, 18 pp., 152Kb)

Jason Kuznicki
Never a Neutral State: American Race Relations and Government Power
(PDF, 37 pp., 267Kb)

Masoud Moghaddam and Hallie Elich
Predicting the Incumbent Party Vote Share in U.S. Presidential Elections
(PDF, 14 pp., 132Kb)

Andrew T. Young
Tax-Spend or Fiscal Illusion?
(PDF, 17 pp., 172Kb)

Michael J. New
Starve the Beast: A Further Examination
(PDF, 9 pp., 93Kb)

Patrick J. Michaels and Paul C. Knappenberger
Scientific Shortcomings in the EPA's Endangerment Finding from Greenhouse Gases
(PDF, 25 pp., 267Kb)

Miaojie Yu
Trade Protectionism and Electoral Outcome
(PDF, 35 pp., 286Kb)

William A. Niskanen
The Undemanding Ethics of Capitalism
(PDF, 7 pp., 78Kb)

Alan Reynolds
The Misuse of Economic History: Flawed Analogies with Japan's "Liquidity Trap" and the Great Depression
(PDF, 19 pp., 158Kb)

Book Reviews

Animal Spirits: How Human Psychology Drives the Economy, and Why It Matters for Global Capitalism
by George A. Akerlof and Robert J. Shiller
Reviewed by Jagadeesh Gokhale
(PDF, 8 pp., 92Kb)

Striking First: Preemption and Prevention in International Conflict
by Michael Doyle
Reviewed by Christopher Preble
(PDF, 6 pp., 77Kb)

Economic Development and Transition: Thought, Strategy, and Viability
by Justin Yifu Lin
Reviewed by James A. Dorn
(PDF, 9 pp., 92Kb)



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