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in the Aftermath and What the Government Should Do (12/18/01)
A Cato Institute policy forum featuring David Swierenga, Air Transport Association of America; James Gattuso, Competitive Enterprise Institute; Clifford Winston, Brookings Institution; and John Nannes, Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom, Former Deputy Assistant Attorney General.
Should the United States Go to War against Iraq? (12/13/01)
A Cato Institute policy forum featuring James Woolsey, Former Director, Central Intelligence Agency; and William Niskanen, Chairman, Cato Institute.
After Afghanistan: The Future of Intervention and Nation Building (12/12/01)
A Cato Institute policy forum featuring Alan Tonelson,
Senior Analyst, U.S. Business & Industry Council; Gareth Evans,
President, International Crisis Group; and Ted Galen Carpenter,
Vice President for Defense and Foreign Policy Studies, Cato Institute.
Big Government and Affirmative Action: The Scandalous History of the Small Business Administration (12/10/01)
A Cato Institute book forum featuring Jonathan J. Bean, Associate Professor of History, Southern Illinois University; with comments by Eugene P. Foley, Former National Administrator, Small Business Administration, Author, The Achieving Ghetto and other works; and Roger Clegg, General Counsel, Center for Equal Opportunity, Former Deputy Assistant Attorney General.
Terrorists, Military Tribunals, and the Constitution (12/6/01)
Featuring Timothy Lynch, Director, Project on Criminal Justice, Cato Institute; Michael Nardotti, Major General, U. S. Army (ret.), former Judge Advocate General; Joseph Robert Barnes, Brigadier General, U.S. Army (ret.), former Assistant Judge Advocate General for Military Law; and Lee Casey, Baker & Hostetler.
Oxymorons: The Myth of a U.S. Health Care System (12/5/01)
A Cato Institute book forum featuring the author, J. D. Kleinke, President and CEO of Health Strategies Network; with comments by Paul B. Ginsburg, President, Center for Studying Health System Change; and Veronique de Rugy, Health Policy Analyst, Cato Institute.
A Return to Big Government? (11/29/01)
A Cato Institute book forum featuring H. W. Brands, Professor of History, Texas A&M University and author of The Strange Death of American Liberalism (Yale University Press, 2001); with comments by Jonathan Rauch, National Journal; and Sebastian Mallaby, The Washington Post.
Access to “Free” Health Care: Restructuring the Safety Net (11/29/01)
A Cato Institute policy forum featuring Bradley J. Herring, Yale University; Randall R. Bovbjerg, Urban Institute; David A. Hyman, University of Maryland School of Law; and Richard Carlson, Illinois Comprehensive Health Insurance Plan.
The Global Harm of Swedish Precaution (11/16/01)
A Cato Institute policy forum featuring Robert Nilsson, Professor of Toxicology, University of Stockholm.
The Future of Intellectual Property in the Information Age (11/14/01)
The Fifth Annual Cato/Forbes ASAP Technology and Society Conference
China's Pension System: Crisis and Challenge (11/8/01)
A Joint Conference of the Cato Institute and the China Center for Economic Research, Peking University featuring Fred Hu, Goldman Sachs; Justin Yifu Lin, CCER; Guo Shuqing, People's Bank; David Hatton, ING Pension Trust; and Michael Tanner, Cato Institute.
Medicare's Midlife Crisis (11/8/01)
A Cato Institute book forum featuring the author, Sue A. Blevins; with comments by Daniel "Stormy" Johnson, Past President, American Medical Association; Joseph Antos, Resident Scholar, American Enterprise Institute.
Should the United States Agree to China's Nuclear Expansion in Exchange for National Missile Defense? (11/7/01)
A Cato Institute policy forum featuring Rear Adm. Eric McVadon, United States Navy (ret.); Derek Mitchell, Center for Strategic and International Studies; Robert M. Soofer, Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Policy; and Alan Romberg, Henry L. Stimson Center.
Deadly Alliance: The FBI's Secret Partnership with the Mob (11/6/01)
A Cato Institute book forum featuring the author, Ralph Ranalli, Reporter, Boston Globe.
Less Health Insurance and Better Health Care: Two-Tiered Health Benefits Models (11/2/01)
A Cato Institute policy forum featuring Lawrence H. Mirel, District of Columbia commissioner of insurance and securities regulation; Kenneth J. Linde, Destiny Health Insurance Company; and Helen Darling, Washington Business Group on Health.
Freedom on the Airwaves: Does Rebel Radio Have a Future in America? (11/1/01)
A Cato Institute book forum featuring Jesse Walker, author of Rebels on the Air: An Alternative History of Radio in America (New York University Press, 2001); with comments by Tom Hazlett, American Enterprise Institute.
Investor Politics: The New Force That Will Transform American Business, Government, and Politics in the Twenty-First Century (11/1/01)
A Cato Institute book forum featuring the author, John Hood, President, John Locke Foundation; with comments by Ramesh Ponnuru, Senior Editor, National Review; Daniel H. Pink, Author, Free Agent Nation, and Former Speechwriter for Vice President Gore.
Junk Science Judo: Self-Defense against Health Scares & Scams (10/31/01)
A Cato Institute book forum featuring the author, Steven J. Milloy, Editor of JunkScience.com.
The Antidumping Epidemic: Causes, Victims, Implications, and Potential Solutions (10/30/01)
A Cato Institute policy forum featuring Thomas Prusa, Professor of Economics, Rutgers University; James Sumner, President, USA Poultry and Egg Export Council; Chuck Lambert, Economist, National Cattlemen's Beef Association; Zygmunt Jablonski, Senior Counsel Law Department, Georgia-Pacific Corporation; and Brink Lindsey, Director of Trade Policy Studies, Cato Institute.
How Should the War on Terrorism Be Prosecuted? (10/30/01)
A Cato Institute policy forum featuring Kim Holmes, Heritage Foundation; Dave McIntyre, Analytic Services, Inc.; Amb. Chas. Freeman, Middle East Policy Council; Michael Ledeen, American Enterprise Institute; Robert D. Novak, Chicago Sun-Times.
Money and Markets in the Americas: A New Agenda (10/24/01)
A Cato Institute conference featuring Franciso Gil Díaz,
Minister of Finance, Mexico; Robert McTeer Jr., President, Federal Reserve Bank, Bank of Dallas; Robert Mundell, Nobel Laureate in Economics and Professor of Economics, Columbia University; and Guillermo Ortiz, Governor, Banco de México.
Fool's Errands: America's Recent Encounters with Nation Building (10/18/01)
A Cato Institute book forum featuring the authors Roger Fontaine, Former National Security Council Official; Gary Dempsey, Foreign Policy Analyst, Cato Institute; with commentary by James P. Pinkerton, Syndicated Columnist and Aide to Former President George H. W. Bush.
The Precautionary Principle: A Critical Appraisal of Environmental Risk Assessment (10/18/01)
A Cato Institute book forum featuring Indur Goklany, author of Clearing the Air: The Real Story of the War on Air Pollution.
The Future of the Bomber Force (10/17/01)
A Cato Institute policy forum featuring Gen. Richard Hawley, United States Air Force (retired); with commentary by John Tirpak, Air Force Association; Jack Spencer, Heritage Foundation; Ivan Eland, Cato Institute.
Is Fiscal Stimulus Desirable? If So, What Works Best? (10/11/01)
A Cato Institute policy forum featuring Douglas Holtz-Eakin, Chief Economist, Council of Economic Advisers; Chris Edwards, Director, Fiscal Policy, Cato Institute; Rep. Jim Saxton, Chairman, Joint Economic Committee; Alan Reynolds, Senior Fellow, Cato Institute; William A. Niskanen, Chairman, Cato Institute.
Fighting Terrorism, Preserving Civil Liberties (10/02/01)
A Cato Institute policy forum featuring Rep. Bob Barr (R - Ga.), with commentary by Solveig Singleton, Senior Analyst, Competitive Enterprise Institute; Stuart Taylor, Senior Writer, National Journal; Jonathan Turley, Professor of Law, George Washington University.
Putting "Defense" Back into U.S. Defense Policy: Rethinking U.S. Security in the Post-Cold War World
(9/26/01)
A Cato Institute book forum featuring the author Ivan Eland, Cato Institute; with comments by Rear Adm. Eugene Carroll, Center for Defense Information; and Alan Tonelson, U. S. Business and Industry Council Educational Foundation.
The Coming Collapse of China (9/26/01)
A Cato Institute book forum featuring author Gordon G. Chang, with comments by Minxin Pei, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace; and Liu Junning, Harvard University.
Is Globalization Good for the Poor? (9/18/01)
A Cato Institute policy forum featuring David Dollar, World Bank; and Mark Weisbrot, Center for Economic and Policy Research.
Arizona's Scholarship Tax Credit: A New Direction for School Choice? (9/17/01)
A Cato Institute policy forum featuring Trent Franks, Former member of the Arizona House of Representatives and author of Arizona's Scholarship Tax Credit legislation; Lisa Graham Keegan, Chief executive officer of the Education Leaders Council and former Arizona superintendent of public instruction; Carrie Lips, Author of "The Arizona Scholarship Tax Credit: Giving Parents Choices, Saving Taxpayers Money," to be released on September 17 by the Cato Institute.
The Military and Space (9/5/01)
A Cato Institute Half-Day Conference.
A Better Deal! Social Security Choice (8/28/01)
A Cato Institute book forum featuring author Scott Rasmussen.
Making a Federal Case out of Health Care: Five Years of HIPAA (7/31/01)
A Cato Institute Conference which included Rep. Dick Armey, Richard Epstein, Mark Pauly, Fred Cate, Mark Hall, and John Hoff.
Escalating Income Tax Complexity: Causes and Cures (7/26/01)
A Cato policy forum featuring Rep. Rob Portman, Committee on Ways and Means; Mary Schmitt, Joint Committee on Taxation; Eugene Steuerle, Urban Institute; Steve Entin, Institute for Research on the Economics of Taxation.
The Interim Report of the President's Commission to Strengthen Social Security: An Evaluation (7/25/01)
A Cato policy forum featuring Thomas Saving, Member, President's Commission to Strengthen Social Security with comments by Robert Bixby, Concord Coalition; Roger Hickey, Campaign for America's Future; Michael Tanner, Cato Institute.
Broadband and the Markets: Perspectives from the Investment Community (7/24/01)
A Cato policy forum featuring Doug Ashton, Bear Stearns; Blake Bath, Lehman Brothers; Scott Cleland, Precursor Group; Erik Olbeter, Schwab Capital Markets.
Debt Relief for Poor Countries: Are the World Bank and IMF Doing the Right Thing? (7/16/01)
A Cato policy forum featuring Adam Lerrick, Gailliot Center for Public Policy, Carnegie Mellon University; Michael Hadjimichael, International Monetary Fund; Ian Vásquez, Cato Institute.
With a Tax Cut in Place, the Next Step Is Major Tax Reform (6/26/01)
A Cato policy forum featuring R. Glenn Hubbard, Chairman, Council of Economic Advisers.
Cuba Policy in the Bush Administration: Future Directions and Opportunities for Change (6/20/01)
A Cato policy forum featuring Mark Falcoff, American Enterprise Institute; John S. Kavulich II, U.S.-Cuba Trade and Economic Council; Ignacio Sosa, One World Investment; Mark Groombridge, Cato Institute.
Why the State of Economic Literacy Is So Appalling (and What to Do about It) (6/12/01)
A Cato book forum featuring Russell Roberts, Author, The Invisible Heart: An Economic Romance (MIT Press, 2001).
Time to Rethink the War on Drugs? (5/22/01)
A Cato policy forum featuring Joseph diGenova, Former U.S. Attorney; Randy Barnett, Boston University School of Law; Sally Satel, American Enterprise Institute; Dennis Knizely, Criminal Defense Attorney.
Children, Adults, and the First Amendment (5/21/01)
A Cato book forum featuring Philip D. Harvey, Author, Government vs. Erotica: The Siege of Adam & Eve; Marjorie Heins, Author, Not in Front of the Children: Indecency, Censorship, and the Innocence of Youth; with comments by Laurence Jarvik, Author, PBS: Behind the Screen, and publisher, The Idler (www.the-idler.com).
Congress and the Power of War and Peace (5/17/01)
A Cato policy forum featuring Gene Healy, Author of Cato Institute Study "Arrogance of Power Reborn: The Imperial Presidency and Foreign Policy in the Clinton Years"; Louis Fisher, Author, Congressional Abdication on War & Spending; John Norton Moore, University of Virginia School of Law.
Racial Profiling: Good Police Tactic? or Harassment? (5/15/01)
A Cato policy forum featuring Reuben Greenberg, Chief of Police, Charleston, S.C.; Nkechi Taifa, Howard University, School of Law; Timothy Lynch, Cato Institute.
Osprey or Albatross: Should the V-22 Tiltrotor Aircraft Fly or Die? (5/11/01)
A Cato policy forum featuring Maj. Gen. Mike Ryan, U.S. Marine Corps (Ret.); Lane Pierrot, Congressional Budget Office; Philip Coyle, Former Director, Office of Test and Evaluation, Department of Defense; Ivan Eland, Cato Institute.
The President of Yugoslavia Speaks at Cato (5/09/01)
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Friedrich Hayek: A Biography (5/08/01)
A Cato book forum featuring the author, Alan Ebenstein, with comments by Jerry Z. Muller, Professor of History, Catholic University, Author, Adam Smith in His Time and Ours.
National Standards and Testing: Will the Bush Education Plan Work? (4/26/01)
A Cato policy forum featuring Kent Talbert, Professional Staff, House Committee on Education and the Workforce; Alfie Kohn, Author, The Case Against Standardized Testing: Raising the Scores, Ruining the Schools; Eugene W. Hickok, Former Pennsylvania Secretary of Education; and Sheldon Richman, Editor, Ideas on Liberty and author of "Parent Power: Why National Standards Won't Improve Public Education," to be released April 26 by the Cato Institute.
Are the Crypto Wars Over? Privacy, Digital Security and the Future of Encryption Policy (4/19/01)
A Cato book forum featuring Steven Levy, author of Crypto: How the Code Rebels Beat the Government -- Saving Privacy in the Digital Age, and Bruce Schneier, author of Secrets and Lies: Digital Security in a Networked World.
The Politics of Managed Care Second Opinions, New Options (4/17/01)
A Cato policy forum featuring Richard Smith, American Association of Health Plans; David A. Hyman, George Washington University Law School; and E. Haavi Morreim, University of Tennessee Health Science Center.
The Making of Modern Economics (4/4/01)
A Cato book forum featuring the author Mark Skousen, Editor, Forecasts & Strategies and columnist for Forbes magazine, with comments by Peter Boettke, George Mason University.
Should the United States Sell Sophisticated Arms to Taiwan (4/3/01)
A Cato policy forum featuring David Shambaugh, George Washington University; Tom Donnelly, Project for the New American Century; Ted Galen Carpenter, Cato Institute.
Home Run for Corporate Welfare: Taxpayer Subsidies for Sports Stadiums (4/2/01)
A Cato policy forum featuring Stephen S. Fuller, George Mason University; Dennis Coates, University of Maryland, Baltimore County; Raymond J. Keating, Small Business Survival Committee.
Nailing the Homeowner? Assessing the Impact of Trade Restrictions on Softwood Lumber (3/30/01)
A Cato policy forum featuring Rep. Jim Kolbe, (R-Ariz.); Rep. Steny Hoyer*, (D-Md.); Mark Groombridge, Center for Trade Policy Studies, Cato Institute; Brink Lindsey, Center for Trade Policy Studies, Cato Institute.
The Law and Politics of Medical Marijuana (3/27/01)
A Cato policy forum featuring Alan Bock, Author, Waiting to Inhale: The Politics of Medical Marijuana, with comments by Kevin Zeese, President, Common Sense for Drug Policy.
Governing a Divided America (3/27/01)
A Cato policy forum featuring Terry Teachout, Commentary; Debra Dickerson, The New America Foundation; Andrew Sullivan, The New Republic and andrewsullivan.com.
Who Are the Real Free Traders in Congress? (3/26/01)
A Cato policy forum featuring Rep. Jim DeMint, (R-S.C.); Gerald Seib, The Wall Street Journal; Dan Griswold, Cato Institute.
Unfree Speech: The Folly of Campaign Finance Reform (3/21/01)
A Cato book forum featuring the author Bradley A. Smith, Commissioner, Federal Election Commission, with comments by Jamin Raskin, American University, Washington College of Law.
Should the Government Regulate Online Privacy? A Tech Industry Debate (3/20/01)
A Cato policy forum featuring John Palafoutas, American Electronics Association; Mark Uncapher, Information Technology Association of America; James W. Harper, PolicyCounsel.com and Privacilla.org.
Space: The Free-Market Frontier (3/15/01)
A Cato Institute conference cosponsored by ProSpace and the Space Frontier Foundation featuring Lou Dobbs, former representative Bob Walker (R-PA), Robert Poole, and Courtney Stadd.
Plan Colombia: Should We Escalate the War on Drugs? (3/13/01)
A Cato policy forum featuring Russell Crandall, Davidson College; James F. Mack, Bureau of International Narcotics & Law Enforcement Affairs, U.S. Department of State; Ian Vásquez, Cato Institute.
In Defense of Free Capital Markets: The Case against a New International Financial Architecture (3/13/01)
A Cato book forum featuring the author David DeRosa, Yale University School of Management, with comments by Andrew Berg, International Monetary Fund; Steve Hanke, Johns Hopkins University.
African Americans, Labor Regulations, and the Courts: From Reconstruction to the New Deal (3/7/01)
A Cato book forum featuring David E. Bernstein, Law Professor, George Mason University Law School, with comments by Mark V. Tushnet, Associate Dean, Georgetown University Law Center.
James Madison and the Future of Limited Government (3/1/01)
A Cato conference featuring Judge Alex Kozinski, James Buchanan, Bruce Bueno de Mesquita, and Roger Pilon.
Term Limits and American Government (2/27/01)
A Cato policy forum featuring Edward H. Crane, Cato Institute; Herman Belz, University of Maryland; Greg Kaza, Executive Director, Arkansas Policy Foundation; Rep. Ric Keller, (R-Fla.).
Ten Years after the Gulf War: The Lessons and Future of Washington's Iraq Policy (2/26/01)
A Cato policy forum featuring Ambassador Edward Peck, Former Chief of Mission, U.S. Embassy in Iraq; Laurie Mylroie, Author, Study of Revenge: Saddam Hussein's Unfinished War against America; Ivan Eland, Cato Institute.
Government Funding of Faith-Based Initiatives: Compassionate Conservatism or Corrupting Charity? (2/20/01)
A Cato policy forum featuring Barry Lynn, Executive Director, Americans United for the Separation of Church and State; Joe Loconte, William E. Simon Fellow in Religion and a Free Society, Heritage Foundation; Melissa Rogers, Religious Liberties Council, Baptist Joint Convention; Michael Tanner, Director of Health and Welfare Studies, Cato Institute; Marvin Olasky, Author, Tragedy of American Compassion; Keith Pavlischek, Director, Civitas Program in Faith and Public Affairs.
What's Wrong with the Steel Industry -- Again? (2/20/01)
A Cato policy forum featuring Thomas Danjczek, Steel Manufacturers Association; Charles Bradford, Steel Analyst; David Phelps, American Institute for International Steel.
The New Medical Privacy Regulations: Will They Protect Our Most Personal Information? (2/15/01)
A Cato policy forum featuring Ronald Weich, Zuckerman Spaeder, LLP; Sue Blevins, Institute for Health Freedom; and Tom Miller, Cato Institute.
Privatizing Social Security: Beyond the Theory (2/6-7/01)
A Cato conference featuring Donald Marron, Martin Feldstein, José Piñera, Michael Tanner, John Zogby, and Wade Dokken.
Which Weapons Systems Should the Bush Administration Skip? (01/18/01)
A Cato policy forum featuring Williamson Murray, Institute for Defense Analyses; Chris Hellman, Center for Defense Information; Ivan Eland, Cato Institute.
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