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It's Getting Better All the Time: The 100 Greatest Trends of the Past 100 Years (12/29/00)
A Cato book forum featuring the coauthor Stephen Moore, Adjunct Fellow, Cato Institute; with comments by Rita J. Simon, University Professor of Public Affairs, American University; Jared Bernstein, Senior Economist, Economic Policy Institute.
Should the U.S. Army "Lighten Up"? (12/18/00)
A Cato policy forum featuring Col. Douglas A. Macgregor, U.S. Army National Defense University; Thomas McNaugher, RAND; Sean Naylor, Army Times; Kim Burger, Inside the Army; David McGinnis, Independent Defense Analyst.
The Future of Employer-Sponsored Health Care: Defined Contributions vs. Defined Benefits (12/08/00)
A Cato policy forum featuring Gary Ahlquist, Booz-Allen & Hamilton; Gerry Smedinghoff, UniversalCIO; William Custer, Georgia State University.
How Should the United States
Respond to Terrorism? (11/27/00)
A Cato policy forum featuring Anthony Cordesman, Center for Strategic
and International Studies; John Parachini, Monterey Institute of
International Studies; Bruce Hoffman, RAND Corporation; Ivan
Eland, Cato Institute.
Mighty Is the Mongrel? Winning in the Global Economy (11/20/00)
A Cato book forum featuring G. Pascal Zachary, Author, The Global Me and
senior writer for the Wall Street Journal; with comments by Peter Skerry, Senior Fellow, Governmental Studies
Brookings Institution; Tyler Cowen, Author, In Praise of Commercial Culture and professor of economics at
George Mason University.
What
Should the Next President Do about the Record U.S. Trade Deficit? (11/15/00)
A Cato policy forum featuring Murray Weidenbaum, Chairman, Trade
Deficit Review Commission; Dan Griswold, Associate Director, Center
for Trade Policy Studies, Cato Institute; Robert Z. Lawrence, Member,
President's Council of Economic Advisers.
The New Entertainment Era: The Convergence of Technology & Entertainment (11/09/00)
Annual Cato Institute/Forbes ASAP Conference on Technology and Society
Featuring Christie Hefner, Michael Robertson, Stanley Hubbard, William
Schrader, and Leo Hindery.
Eight
Years of Clinton-Gore Foreign Policy: A Passing Grade? (11/02/00)
A Cato policy forum featuring Jonathan Clarke, Research Fellow,
Cato Institute; Michael O'Hanlon, Senior Fellow, Brookings Institution.
Mail
@ the Millennium: Will the Postal Service Go Private? (11/01/00)
A Cato book forum featuring Edward L. Hudgins, Cato Institute;
Robert Krause, U.S. Postal Service; Rick Merritt, PostalWatch;
Ruth Y. Goldway, Postal Rate Commission; Bernard Ungar,
General Accounting Office.
New
Century, New Deal: How to Turn Your Wages into Wealth through Social Security
Choice (10/30/00)
A Cato book forum featuring Wade Dokken, Chairman of American Skandia.
Nailing
the Homeowner? Assessing the Impact of Trade Restrictions on Softwood
Lumber (10/26/00)
A Cato policy forum featuring Michael Carliner, National Association
of Home Builders, Christopher Boesen, National American Indian
Housing Council; Dave Modi, Georgia Pacific; Scott Cameron,
CHEP USA, Inc.
18th Annual Monetary
Conference: Monetary Policy in the New Economy (10/19/00)
Has the New Economy made traditional tools of monetary policy
obsolete or simply made it more difficult for central banks to conduct
policy? What should the Fed do? At the Cato Institute's 18th Annual Monetary
Conference, cosponsored with The Economist, leading policymakers and monetary
experts discussed those questions and related issues.
The Defense Debate:
Raise the Anchor or Lower the Ship? (10/17/00)
A Cato policy forum featuring James Schlesinger, Former Secretary
of Defense and Energy and Director of Central Intelligence with comments
by Ted Galen Carpenter, Cato Institute; and Kim Holmes, Heritage
Foundation.
"Feeling Your Pain"
The Explosion and Abuse of Government Power in the Clinton-Gore Years(10/16/00)
A Cato policy forum featuring James Bovard, Associate Policy
Analyst, Cato Institute with comments by Timothy Noah, Slate
Magazine.
The 2000 Election and the Politics
of the Future (10/12/00)
A Cato policy forum featuring Peter Beinart; Editor, New Republic;
Nick Gillespie, Editor-in-Chief, Reason; and Richard Lowry
Editor, National Review.
Global Money, Sovereignty, and Privacy
(10/06/00)
A Cato policy forum featuring Bradley Jansen, Legislative Director
for banking and monetary affairs, Rep. Ron Paul's office; Adrian Day,
Editor, Adrian Day's Global Analyst; Bill Tucker, former Section
Chief, Organized Crime/Narcotics division, Federal Bureau of Investigation;
and Muhammad Abdul Ghaffar, Ambassador of Bahrain.
Social Security: Is
It "A Crisis That Doesn't Exist"? (10/05/00)
A Cato policy forum featuring Andrew G. Biggs, Social Security Analyst,
Cato Institute; Mark Weisbrot, Coauthor, Social Security: The Phony
Crisis; Richard Jackson, Senior Advisor, The Concord Coalition; and
Eugene Steuerle, Senior Fellow, The Urban Institute
Will the FSC Dispute
Ignite a Transatlantic Trade War? (10/04/00)
A Cato policy forum featuring Rep. Phil English (R-Pa.); John
Richardson, European Commission; Willard Berry, European-American,
Business Council; Gary Hufbauer, Institute for International Economics.
Should the Death Penalty
Be Abolished? (09/18/00)
A Cato policy forum featuring Judge Alex Kozinski, U.S. Court of
Appeals; Harvey Silverglate; Silverglate & Good; David Frum,
Senior Fellow Manhattan Institute; and Jarett Decker, Adjunct
Scholar, Cato Institute.
Globalizing Justice:
Panacea or Pandora's Box? (09/14/00)
A Cato book forum featuring Geoffrey Robertson, Q.C., Author of Crimes
against Humanity: The Struggle for Global Justice; and Ted Galen
Carpenter, Vice President for Defense & Foreign Policy Studies,
Cato Institute.
American Exceptionalism,
Past and Future (09/13/00)
A Cato book forum featuring Seymour Martin Lipset, Hazel Professor
of Public Policy, George Mason University; and Aaron L. Friedberg,
Professor of Politics and International Affairs, Princeton University.
Ten Things You Can't
Say in America (09/13/00)
A Cato policy forum featuring Larry Elder, Talk Show Host, KABC
A Robust United Nations
in the 21st Century: Benefit, Danger, or Fantasy? (09/06/00)
A Cato policy forum featuring Stefan Halper, Former Deputy Assistant,
Secretary of State; William Durch, Senior Associate, Henry L.
Stimson Center; and Alan Tonelson, Senior Fellow, U.S. Business
& Industry Council.
Creating a European
Security and Defense Identity: Fact or Fantasy? (08/29/00)
A Cato policy forum featuring John Bolton, Senior Vice President,
American Enterprise Institute; John Hulsman, Senior Analyst, Heritage
Foundation; and Christopher Layne, Visiting Fellow, Cato Institute.
Welfare, Work, and
Four Years of Change: Where Do We Go from Here? (08/22/00)
A Cato policy forum featuring Lisa Oliphant, Entitlements Policy
Analyst, Cato Institute; Charles Murray, Bradley Fellow, American
Enterprise Institute; Wendell Primus, Director of Income Security,
Center on Budget and Policy Priorities; and Ron Haskins, Staff Director,
Subcommittee on Human Resources, House Committee on Ways and Means.
Mexico in a New Era
of Openness: What to Expect from Vicente Fox (07/27/00)
A Cato policy forum featuring Luis Carlos Ugalde, Chief of Staff,
Embassy of Mexico; Roberto Salinas-León, Director
of Policy Analysis, T.V. Azteca; and Fausto Alzati, President, Centro
Internacional Lucas Alemán para el Crecimiento Económico (CILACE),
Economic Adviser to Vicente Fox.
The Future of Campaign
Finance Reform (07/20/00)
A Cato policy forum featuring an address by Tom DeLay, Majority Whip,
U.S. House of Representatives; with comments by Alexander Vogel,
Deputy Counsel, Republican National Committee; and James V. DeLong,
Adjunct Scholar, Competitive Enterprise Institute.
What Price Fame?
(07/18/00)
A Cato book forum featuring Tyler Cowen, Professor of Economics,
George Mason University, Adjunct Scholar, Cato Institute with comments by
James P. Pinkerton, Author, What Comes Next, Columnist, Newsday,
Contributor, Fox News Channel.
The Rule of Law in
the Wake of Clinton (07/12/00)
A Cato conference featuring Sen. Fred Thompson, Lillian BeVier, Ronald
D. Rotunda, Jim Wootton, Roger Pilon, C. Boyden Gray, Nadine Strossen, Dan
Troy, Prof. Douglas Kmiec, Tim Lynch, Robert A. Levy, AG Wm. Pryor, Prof.
John Yoo, and David Horowitz.
China's Future: Constructive
Partner or Emerging Threat? (07/11/00)
A Cato book forum featuring Liu Junning, Independent Scholar, Beijing;
with comments by Ted Galen Carpenter, Vice President, Defense
and Foreign Policy Studies, Cato Institute; and James A. Dorn Vice
President, Academic Affairs, Cato Institute.
The Future of U.S.
Defense Policy (06/29/00)
A Cato policy forum featuring Frank Gaffney, Director, Center
for Security Policy; Daniel Gouré, Deputy Director,
International Security Program Center for Strategic and International Studies;
Doug Bandow, Syndicated Columnist and Senior Fellow, Cato
Institute; and Ivan Eland, Director, Defense Policy Studies,
Cato Institute.
The Triumph of Liberty:
A 2,000-Year History, Told through the Lives of Freedom’s Greatest Champions
(06/28/00)
A Cato book forum featuring the author, Jim Powell, Senior Fellow,
Cato Institute, Editor, Laissez Faire Books
More Guns, Less Crime
(06/16/00)
A Cato book forum featuring the author, John R. Lott Jr, Yale Law
School, with comments by Carl Moody, Department of Economics, College
of William & Mary; and William Vogt, Department of Economics,
Carnegie Mellon University
Clearing the Air about Global Warming (05/18/00)
A Cato book forum featuring Patrick Michaels with comments by John Fialka and Seth Borenstein
Dirty Cops and Wrongful Convictions (05/17/00)
A Cato policy forum featuring Charles M. Ramsey, Jerome Skolnick, and David B. Kopel
Ballot Initiatives: Empowering People or Derailing
Democracy? (05/16/00)
A Cato policy forum featuring David S. Broder, M. Dane Waters,
and William A. Niskanen
In his book Democracy Derailed: Initiative Campaigns and the Power of
Money, David Broder argues that America's Founders preferred a system
of checks and balances to direct democracy. Ballot initiatives arose late
in the 1800s as grassroots efforts to fight government corruption and big
business influence yet today are vehicles for special interests. But are
initiatives in fact a way to fight big government, a cry for help by majorities
that find their freedoms restricted?
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On the Legacy of Ludwig von Mises (05/04/00)
A Cato evening program featuring Israel M. Kirzner and Don Boudreaux
The latest issue of the Cato Journal features essays on the writings
of the great Austrian economist Ludwig von Mises, who played a major role
in the defeat of Soviet-style socialism. He showed that markets without
secure private property rights are an illusion and that, without freely
determined prices, rational economic calculation under socialism would be
impossible. His critique of government planning and intervention emphasized
the difficulty of centralizing useful information and the inseparability
of economic freedom and personal freedom. Professor Kirzner, who studied
under Mises and has published numerous articles and books on Austrian economics,
including "Mises and His Understanding of the Capitalist System" in the
Cato Journal, will discuss Mises' work and its impact. Don Boudreaux
offered some remarks about the role Mises played during his long association
with the Foundation for Economic Education.
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How Many Attack Submarines Does the Navy Need?
(04/27/00)
A Cato polcy forum featuring Rear Adm. Malcolm Fages, Rear Adm. Eugene
Carroll, Eric Labs, and Ivan Eland
In 1997 the Department of Defense's Quadrennial Defense Review--without
much explanation--specified a target of 50 nuclear attack submarines for
the Navy's undersea force. In early 2000 the Department's Annual Report
to the President and Congress increased the goal to 55 boats. A recent Pentagon
study went even further--arguing that the United States should have between
55 and 68 submarines by 2015 and between 62 and 76 vessels by 2025. The
chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff appeared to distance himself from
the findings of the Pentagon study by arguing that further analysis was
needed to determine how many boats to buy. What are the reasons given for
increasing the submarine force? Are such increases warranted? How many submarines
does the United States need? What is the proper role (or roles) of the attack
submarine in a post-Cold War U.S. military? Our panelists discussed those
issues.
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Whither the Financial Services Industry after the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act of 1999? (04/06/00)
A Cato polcy forum featuring Randall S. Kroszner, Robert E. Litan,
and William A. Niskanen
After almost two decades of trying, Congress finally passed last year legislation
to modernize the country’s financial regulations. The Gramm-Leach-Bliley
Act of 1999 eliminated Depression-era walls between the banking, insurance,
and securities industries in the United States. The new law is good for
consumers and the economy as a whole because it allows the creation of one-stop
financial supermarkets, but there are some concerns about the new financial
conglomerates becoming "too big to fail." If that is the case, can markets
regulate themselves effectively to prevent costly bailouts at the expense
of taxpayers? Please join us for a timely Forum on the future of the financial
services industry.
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Kids, Wine, and the Commerce Clause (04/05/00)
A Cato polcy forum featuring Clint Bolick, C. Boyden Gray,
and Robert A. Levy.
You may not be able to order that bottle of Château Lafite Rothschild or
Thunderbird by phone, mail, or over the Internet from an out-of-state winery.
That's the law in 30 states, including New York, where the Institute for
Justice has filed a test case on behalf of two small wineries and three
consumers. The Institute's Clint Bolick argues that a ban on out-of-state
direct sales has little to do with keeping wine away from kids. Instead,
it is "designed to preserve the monopoly of liquor wholesalers" and violates
the Constitution's Commerce Clause. Not so, insists Boyden Gray, who represents
those wholesalers. He points out that the 21st Amendment, which lifted Prohibition,
grants states regulatory authority over alcohol. "If you allow out-of-state
shipments, you are beyond the reach of the state," he contends. A vigorous
debate was held on this issue that could help define both the commerce power
and the 21st Amendment.
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Trouble in the Taiwan Strait? (03/30/00)
A Cato polcy forum featuring Adm. Eugene Carroll (Ret.), Ross
Munro, and Doug Bandow
Is a major conflict brewing in the Taiwan Strait? Could it pull the United
States into a military confrontation with China? A recent Beijing white
paper warned that China would be forced to take "drastic measures," including
use of military force, if Taiwan continued to delay talks on eventual reunification.
And President Jiang Zemin has emphasized that he intends to make the reunification
of China the centerpiece of his legacy. Meanwhile, the trajectory of Taipei's
policy will obviously be affected by the Taiwanese on March 18. Please join
us for a timely forum on the prospects of conflict in the Taiwan Strait.
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Should Silicon Valley Normalize Relations with
Washington (03/15/00)
A Cato polcy forum featuring T.J. Rodgers and Michael Maibach
In a new Cato Institute study, T. J. Rodgers says: "Silicon Valley could
make no bigger mistake than to normalize relations with Congress and the
White House. The political scene in Washington is antithetical to the core
values that drive our successes in the international marketplace and risks
converting entrepreneurs into statist businessmen." Michael Maibach will
present a less hostile attitude toward the relationship between Washington
and the high-tech community.
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Two New Books on Ayn Rand’s Legacy (03/14/00)
A Cato book forum featuring Tibor Machan and Douglas J. Den Uyl
One of the most articulate defenders of American individualism against the
collectivist trend of the first three-quarters of the last century was a
Russian immigrant, Ayn Rand. Her influence is coming to be felt more and
more in academic, artistic, and intellectual circles in America, as evidenced
by news coverage, a new journal devoted to her thought, and a spate of new
books, most recently the two to be featured at this Cato Book Forum. Tibor
Machan is the author of a number of works in philosophy (including Generosity:
Virtue in Civil Society from Cato), distinguished fellow and professor
at the Leatherby Center of Chapman University in California, and a research
fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University. Douglas J. Den
Uyl is a former professor of philosophy at Bellarmine College, editor (with
Douglas Rasmussen) of The Philosophic Thought of Ayn Rand, author of The
Virtue of Prudence, and director of educational programs at the Liberty
Fund, an educational foundation based in Indianapolis.
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What Should the United States Do about Saddam
Hussein? (03/14/00)
A Cato policy forum featuring David Isenberg, Adjunct Scholar, Cato
Institute; and Daniel Byman, RAND.
Nine years after the Persian Gulf War, Saddam Hussein remains in power in
Iraq. The United States has tried almost every means of gaining leverage
against him–economic sanctions, weapons inspections, support for opposition
groups, no-fly zones in Iraqi air space, and even periodic bombing campaigns.
The Clinton administration's policy seems to be adrift as international
support for the containment of Saddam erodes. Some analysts support attempting
to get an agreement to remove sanctions in exchange for renewed weapons
inspections. One presidential candidate–John McCain–has even suggested committing
to a "rollback" of Saddam's regime by more actively supporting the Iraqi
opposition. Other analysts minimize the Iraqi threat to the United States
and suggest a more restrained U.S. policy. Our panelists discus alternative
policies toward Iraq.
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Solving the Global Pensions
Crisis II: The Privatization Revolution (03/09/00 - 03/10/00)
A Cato Institute conference featuring José Piñera, William Shipman, Tim
Penny, Milton Ezrati, Klaus Friedrich, David Willetts, Charles Murray, Douglas
Atkin, and Fernando Solis Soberón.
Guns in America: Public Nuisance, Defective Product,
or Constitutional Right? (02/29/00)
A Cato conference featuring Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), Michael
K. Beard, David Yassky, Glen A. Caroline, Nelson Lund,
Larry Rosenthal, Dennis A. Henigan, Mark A. Behrens, and Robert
A. Levy
Disarmed by peace and prosperity, political activists have targeted guns
as their latest social cause. As suburban soccer moms march for more controls,
dozens of cities have sued gun makers for "negligently marketing" a "defective
product." Meanwhile, a Texas appeals court is reviewing a lower court ruling
that invalidated a federal statute on Second Amendment grounds. Thus, the
Supreme Court, for the first time in more than 60 years, may soon revisit
the right to keep and bear arms. Our experts engaged in two timely debates
on gun control, the common law, and the Constitution.
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The Cuban Economic Embargo: Time for a New Approach?
(02/15/00)
A Cato policy forum featuring Rep. Mark Sanford (R-S.C.); Philip
Peters, Lexington Institute; and Thomas Donohue, President U.S.
Chamber of Commerce.
The story of six-year-old Elian Gonzalez has thrust U.S.-Cuban relations
back on the front page. For almost four decades now, the United States has
imposed an embargo against trade with and travel and investment in communist-ruled
Cuba. Advocates of the embargo argue that it has weakened the Castro regime
and remains our best hope of encouraging democracy in Cuba. Critics contend
that it has hurt the people of Cuba, compromised the liberty of Americans,
and provided Castro with a convenient excuse for his own failures. With
the Cold War receding into history, should U.S. policy toward Cuba be changed?
Rep. Mark Sanford explains his bill to lift restrictions on Americans traveling
to Cuba, and other panelists join in discussing the economic and foreign
policy impact of the current trade embargo.
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The Economic Consequences of Immigration (02/03/00)
A Cato book forum featuring Michael Barone, Senior Writer,
U.S. News and World Report; Mark Krikorian, Executive Director,
Center for Immigration Studies; Demetrious Papademetriou, Senior
Associate and Codirector, International Migration Policy Program, Carnegie
Endowment for International Peace; Rita J. Simon, Professor,
School of Public Affairs, American University; and Stephen Moore,
Director of Fiscal Policy Studies, Cato Institute.
Celebrating a new edition of Julian L. Simon's classic book The Economic
Consequences of Immigration published by the University of Michigan
Press. This edition, updated by Stephen Moore and with a new foreword by
Sanford J. Ungar, author of Fresh Blood: The New American Immigrants,
offers a systematic inquiry into how immigrants affect the U.S. economy.
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Should Gays and Lesbians Be Allowed to Serve
Openly in the Military? (01/31/00)
A Cato policy forum featuring Capt. Michelle M. Benecke, U.S. Army
(Ret.), Lt. Col. Robert L. Maginnis, U.S. Army (Ret.), and David
P. Sheldon, Former Navy Appellate Defense Attorney.
The current "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" policy, enacted by Congress in 1993,
stipulates that gays and lesbians will be separated from the U.S. military
if they declare their sexual orientation or are found to have engaged in
homosexual conduct. At the same time, the military services must not ask
military personnel about their sexual orientation. The policy has become
a major issue in the 2000 presidential campaign. Some commentators believe
that homosexuals should be allowed to serve openly and without restrictions
and others do not. Our panelists will debate the issue.
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NATO's Empty Victory: A Postmortem on the Balkan
War (01/20/00)
A Cato book forum featuring Ted Galen Carpenter, Editor, NATO's
Empty Victory
Last summer, President Clinton and other NATO leaders proclaimed "victory"
in their air war against Yugoslavia. Seven months later, their claim rings
hollow: one form of ethnic cleansing has been replaced by another, socio-economic
conditions have worsened throughout southeastern Europe, and Russia and
China have forged a strategic partnership directed against the United States.
Several of the book's contributors joined the editor to discuss their essays
and the latest Balkan tragedy.
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