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2006
Remembering Milton Friedman (12/18/06)
A Cato Institute Capitol Hill Briefing featuring "Free to Choose: Tyranny of Control" Video presentation with comments from Cato executive vice president David Boaz.
Overblown: How Politicians and the Terrorism Industry Inflate National Security Threats, and Why We Believe Them (12/13/06)
A Cato Institute Book Forum featuring the author, John Mueller, Woody Hayes Chair of National Security Studies, Ohio State University; with comments by James S. Gilmore, III, Former Governor of Virginia and Chair of the Advisory Panel to Assess Domestic Response Capabilities for Terrorism Involving Weapons of Mass Destruction and Chairman, National Council on Readiness and Preparedness.
How to Deal with Iran: Options for Today and for the Future (12/11/06)
A Cato Institute Conference. Panel 1: The Policy Options We Face Today
Featured speakers: Trita Parsi, National Iranian-American Council; Sanam Vakil, Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies; Flynt Leverett, New America Foundation; Ted Galen Carpenter, Cato Institute.
Panel 2: What If Our Policy Fails?
Featured speakers: Lt. Gen. Thomas McInerney, USAF (Ret.), Iran Policy Committee; Lawrence Korb, Center for American Progress; Michael Eisenstadt, Washington Institute for Near East Policy; Justin Logan, Cato Institute.
Property Rights on the March: Where from Here? (12/1/06)
A Cato Institute Conference. Featured Speakers: Roger Pilon, Vice President for Legal Affairs, Cato Institute; Steven Anderson, Director, Castle Coalition, Institute for Justice; Steven J. Eagle, Professor of Law, George Mason University School of Law; Ross Day, Director of Legal Affairs, Oregonians in Action; Richard Mersereau, Director of Policy, California State Assembly Republican Caucus; Carol W. LaGrasse, President, Property Rights Foundation of America; and Hon. Bobby Harrell, Speaker, South Carolina House of Representatives.
Latin America: Between Populism and Modernity (11/30/06)
A Cato Institute Conference featuring speakers Mario Vargas Llosa, President, International Foundation for Liberty; Rodrigo de Rato, Managing Director, International Monetary Fund; Carlos Alberto Montaner, Cuban writer; and Juan José Daboub, Former Finance Minister of El Salvador, Managing Director, World Bank.
Russian Energy Policy and the New Russian State (11/20/06)
A Cato Institute Policy Forum featuring Robert Amsterdam, Attorney for Mikhail Khodorkovsky; and Andrei Illarionov, Former Economic Adviser to President Putin and Senior Fellow, Center for Global Liberty and Prosperity, Cato Institute.
24th Annual Monetary Conference: Federal Reserve Policy in the Face of Crises (11/16/06)
A Cato Institute Conference.
Flat Tax Reform in Slovakia: Lessons for the United States (11/14/06)
A Cato Institute Policy Forum featuring Ivan Miklos, Former Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance, Slovakia; with comments by Chris Edwards, Director of Tax Policy Studies, Cato Institute; and moderated by Marian Tupy, Policy Analyst, Center for Global Liberty and Prosperity, Cato Institute.
Cato Institute Perspectives 2006 (11/14/06)
A Cato Institute City Seminar featuring Sen. Chuck Hagel, (R-NE) and John Fund, columnist for the Wall Street Journal.
Election 2006: A Look Back and Forward (11/9/06)
A Cato Institute Policy Forum featuring John Samples, Director, Center for Representative Government, the Cato Institute; Michael McDonald, Visiting Fellow, Brookings Institution; James Pinkerton, Columnist, Newsday; and Lou Jacobson, Deputy Editor, Roll Call
Improving Health Care Quality: Is Medicare a Good Candidate for Pay-for-Performance? (11/2/06)
A Cato Institute Policy Forum featuring: David Cutler, Professor, Harvard University; Dr. Sandra Gadson, Immediate Past President, National Medical Association; Michael F. Cannon, Director of Health Policy Studies, Cato Institute; and Gail Wilensky, Co-Chair, Institute of Medicine Pay-for-Performance Advisory Committee.
The U.S. Military and Counterinsurgency: What We Have Learned in Iraq and Afghanistan (11/2/06)
A Cato Institute Policy Forum featuring: Jeffrey Record, Professor, Air War College, Author of Beating Goliath: Why Insurgencies Win; Thomas E. Ricks, Senior Pentagon Correspondent, Washington Post,
Author of Fiasco: The American Military Adventure in Iraq: Conrad Crane, Director, U.S. Army Military History Institute, Army War College Lead, author of the Army/Marine Corps Counterinsurgency Manual; and Christopher Preble, Director of Foreign Policy Studies, Cato Institute.
Liberty for All: Reclaiming Individual Privacy in a New Era of Public Morality (10/31/06)
A Cato Institute Book Forum featuring the author Elizabeth Price Foley, Professor of Law, Florida International University, and with comments by William A. Galston,
Senior Fellow, Brookings Institution.
The Future of the European Common Agricultural Policy and Global Trade Liberalization (10/27/06)
A Cato Institute Policy Forum featuring Patrick Messerlin, Director, Groupe d'Economie Mondiale, Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Paris; with comments by Daniel Griswold, Director, Center for Trade Policy Studies, Cato Institute; and moderated by
Marian Tupy, Policy Analyst, Center for Global Liberty and Prosperity.
Freedom, Commerce and Peace: A Regional Agenda (10/25-25/06)
A Cato Institute Conference. The Cato Institute, the New Economic School of Georgia, the Atlas Economic Research Foundation, the Heritage Foundation, the Friedrich Naumann Foundation, the Center for International Private Enterprise, the John Templeton Foundation, and the Donald and Paula Smith Family Foundation are organizing a major international conference in October 2006 in Tbilisi, Georgia.
Pan-African Free Trade Agreement: Helping Africa through Free Trade (10/20/06)
A Cato Institute Policy Forum featuring Andrew Mitchell, Shadow Secretary of State for International Development, Great Britain; with comments by Richard Tren, Director, Africa Fighting Malaria; and Marian Tupy,
Policy Analyst, Cato Institute.
The End of Iraq: How American Incompetence Created a War without End (10/19/06)
A Cato Institute Book Forum featuring the author, Peter W. Galbraith, Former U.S. Ambassador to Croatia and Senior Diplomatic Fellow, Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation; with comments by Marina S. Ottaway, Director of Middle East Studies, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace; and Christopher A. Preble, Director of Foreign Policy Studies, Cato Institute.
Foreign Aid and the Weakening of Democratic Accountability in Uganda (10/18/06)
A Cato Institute Policy Forum featuring Andrew Mwenda,
Political Editor, Daily Monitor (Kampala, Uganda), with comments by
Mauro De Lorenzo, Resident Fellow, American Enterprise Institute.
Why Darwin Matters: The Case against Intelligent Design (10/12/06)
A Cato Institute Book Forum featuring the author, Michael Shermer, Director, Skeptics Society; With comments by Jonathan Wells, Senior Fellow, Center for Science and Culture, Discovery Institute
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Ethical Realism: A Vision for America's Role in the World (10/10/06)
A Cato Institute Book Forum featuring the authors Anatol Lieven,
New America Foundation; John Hulsman,
German Council on Foreign Relations;
with comments by Lawrence Kaplan, The New Republic; and Joseph Cirincione, Center for American Progress.
The Fallacy of Campaign Finance Reform (10/4/06)
A Cato Institute Book Forum featuring the author John Samples,
Director, Center for Representative Government, Cato Institute; with comments by Robert Bauer, Perkins & Coie; and
Eliza Newlin Carney, National Journal.
The Conservative Soul: How We Lost It, How to Get It Back (10/3/06)
A Cato Institute Book Forum featuring the author Andrew Sullivan,
Columnist, Time and the Sunday Times, and with comments by David Brooks, Columnist, New York Times.
Ivory Tower Overhaul: How to Fix American Higher Ed (9/27/06)
A Cato Institute Policy Forum featuring Charles Miller, Chairman, the Secretary of Education’s Commission on the Future of Higher Education; Christopher Nelson, President, St. John’s College; Anya Kamenetz, Author, Generation Debt; Neal McCluskey, Policy Analyst, Center for Educational Freedom, Cato Institute; and moderated by Doug Lederman, Editor, Inside Higher Ed.
Divergent Paths in Post-Communist Transformation: Capitalism for All or Capitalism for the Few? (9/25/06)
A Cato Institute Book Forum featuring the author, Oleh Havrylyshyn, Former Deputy Director in the Office of Internal Audit, IMF, Visiting Scholar, University of Toronto; with comments by Ambassador Janusz Reiter, Embassy of Poland; and moderated by Marian Tupy, Assistant Director, Project on Global Economic Liberty, Cato Institute.
Giving Kids the Chaff: How to Find and Keep the Teachers We Need (9/25/06)
A Cato Institute Policy Forum featuring Marie Gryphon, Cato Adjunct Scholar, Cato Institute; with comments by
Arthur Wise, President, National Council for Accreditation of Teacher Education.
The Marketplace of Democracy: Electoral Competition and American Politics (9/22/06)
A Cato Institute Capitol Hill Briefing featuring Michael McDonald, George Mason University and The Brookings Institution,
and John Samples, Director, Center for Representative Government Cato Institute.
How Nations Prosper: Economic Freedom and Doing Business in 2007 (9/21/06)
A Cato Institute Book Forum featuring James Gwartney, Coauthor, Economic Freedom of the World:
2006 Annual Report (Fraser Institute and Cato Institute, 2006), and Simeon Djankov, Lead Author, Doing Business in 2007: How to Reform (World Bank, 2006).
Medicare Meets Mephistopheles (9/21/06)
A Cato Institute Book Forum featuring the author, David A. Hyman, Cato Institute Adjunct Scholar and Professor of Law and Medicine at the University of Illinois; with comments by Ted Marmor, Professor, Yale University, and author of The Politics of Medicare; and Robin Wilson, Visiting Professor of Law, Washington and Lee University.
Changing Course: Why Congress Should Consider a New Direction for U.S. Agriculture Policy (9/21/06)
A Cato Institute Capitol Hill Briefing featuring Rep. Jeff Flake, (R-AZ) and Sallie James, Trade Policy Analyst, Cato Institute.
In Defense of Negativity: Attack Ads in Presidential Campaigns (9/20/06)
A Cato Institute Book Forum featuring the author,
John G. Geer,
Professor of Political Science and Public Policy,
Vanderbilt University; with comments by Jeremy Mayer, George Mason University; and
moderated by
John Samples,
Director, Center for Representative Government,
Cato Institute.
Cornerstone of Liberty: Property Rights in 21st Century America (9/19/06)
A Cato Institute Book Forum featuring the author, Timothy Sandefur, Staff Attorney, Pacific Legal Foundation; with comments by John D. Echeverria, Executive Director, Georgetown Environmental Policy & Law Institute.
5th Annual Constitution Day Conference (9/14/06)
A Cato Institute Conference. Cato Institute, Washington D.C.
Overkill: The Rise of Paramilitary Police Raids in America (9/12/06)
A Cato Institute Policy Forum featuring the author Radley Balko, Policy Analyst, Cato Institute, with comments by Norm Stamper, Seattle Police Chief (Ret.) and author of Breaking Rank: A Top Cop's Exposé of the Dark Side of Policing.
The War on Terrorism Five Years after 9/11 (9/8/06)
A Cato Institute Policy Forum featuring a presentation by Robert Pape,
Associate Professor of Political Science, University of Chicago, and author of Dying to Win: The Strategic Logic of Suicide Terrorism.
Followed by a discussion of U.S. strategy in the war on terrorism with Andrew Kohut, Pew Research Center; Flynt Leverett, New America Foundation; Dana Priest, Washington Post; Rand Beers, The National Security Network; and Christopher Preble, Cato Institute.
Design for a New Europe (9/7/06)
A Cato Institute Book Forum featuring the author John Gillingham, Professor of History, University of Missouri-St. Louis; with comments by Ambassador John Bruton, Head of the European Union Delegation to the United States; and moderated by Marian Tupy, Assistant Director, Project on Global Economic Liberty, Cato Institute.
The Elephant in the Room: Evangelicals, Libertarians and the Battle to Control the Republican Party (9/6/06)
A Cato Institute Book Forum featuring the author, Ryan Sager, Columnist, New York Post and RealClearPolitics.com; with comments by Michael Barone, Columnist, U.S. News and World Report, and Coauthor of Almanac of American Politics.
Prospects for Reform of U.S. Agricultural Policy -With or without Doha (8/31/06)
A Cato Institute Policy Forum featuring Mike Johanns, U.S. Secretary of Agriculture; Cal Dooley, President and CEO, Food Products Association; and Robert L. Thompson, Gardner Chair in Agricultural Policy, University of Illinois.
Crisis of Abundance: Rethinking How We Pay for Health Care (8/29/06)
A Cato Institute Book Forum featuring the author, Arnold Kling, Cato Institute Adjunct Scholar and Adjunct Professor at George Mason University; with comments by Sebastian Mallaby, Editorial Writer and Columnist, Washington Post; and Jason Furman, Visiting Scholar, New York University. Moderated by Michael F. Cannon, Director of Health Policy Studies, Cato Institute.
Welfare Reform Turns 10: A Look Back, A Look Ahead (8/22/06)
A Cato Institute Policy Forum featuring Charles Murray, American Enterprise Institute; Robert Rector, Heritage Foundation; and Michael Tanner, Cato Institute.
Buck Wild: How Republicans Broke the Bank and Became the Party of Big Government (8/15/06)
A Cato Institute Book Forum featuring the author, Stephen Slivinski, Director of Budget Studies, Cato Institute, with comments by Robert Novak.
Comprehensive Immigration Reform for a Growing Economy (8/1/06)
A Cato Institute Policy Forum featuring The Hon. Carlos Gutierrez, Secretary of Commerce.
Sandstorm: Policy Failure in the Middle East (7/27/06)
A Cato Institute Book Forum featuring the author Leon Hadar,
Research Fellow in Foreign Policy Studies,
Cato Institute; with comments by
Jim Pinkerton,
Columnist, Newsday, and analyst, FOX News; and
Geoffrey Kemp,
Director of Regional Strategic Programs, the Nixon Center,
and Senior Director for Near East and South Asian Affairs,
National Security Council (1983–1985).
Cato University — Cornerstone of Liberty: Property Rights in the 21st Century (7/26-30/06)
A Cato Institute Conference.
John Stossel's "War on Drugs, a War on Ourselves" (7/24/06)
A Cato Institute Capitol Hill Briefing.
U.S. Trade Policy in the Wake of Doha: Why Unilateral Liberalization Makes Sense (7/20/06)
A Cato Institute Capitol Hill Briefing featuring Dan Ikenson,
associate director of the Cato Institute’s Center for Trade Policy Studies and Will Martin, lead economist at the World Bank's Development Research Group.
U.S.-China Trade, Exchange Rates, and the U.S. Economy (7/19/06)
A Cato Institute Policy Forum featuring Nicholas Lardy, Institute for International Economics; Frank Vargo, National Association of Manufacturers; and Daniel Griswold, Cato Institute.
The Big Ripoff: How Big Business and Big Government Steal Your Money (7/18/06)
A Cato Institute Book Forum featuring the author Timothy P. Carney, Warren T. Brookes Journalism Fellow, Competitive Enterprise Institute, with comments by Jim Pinkerton, Columnist, Newsday and moderated by Stephen Slivinski, Director of Budget Studies, Cato Institute
John Stossel's "Is America Number One?" (7/17/06)
A Cato Institute Capitol Hill Briefing.
John Stossel's "Greed" (7/10/06)
A Cato Institute Capitol Hill Briefing.
The Quotable Jefferson (7/6/06)
A Cato Institute Book Forum featuring John P. Kaminski,
Director, Center for the Study of the American Constitution, University of Wisconsin, Madison and Matthew Spaulding, Director of Center for American Studies, Heritage Foundation.
Fact and Fiction about Gasoline Prices (6/30/06)
A Cato Institute Capitol Hill Briefing featuring
Jerry Taylor,
Senior Fellow, Cato Institute.
U.S. Trade Policy in the Wake of Doha: Why Unilateral Liberalization Makes Sense (6/21/06)
A Cato Institute Policy Forum featuring
Jagdish Bhagwati,
Professor of Economics and Law, Columbia University,
Senior Fellow in International Economics, Council on Foreign Relations
and
Daniel Ikenson,
Associate Director, Center for Trade Policy Studies, Cato Institute
Two Normal Nations: Exploring the U.S.-Japan Strategic Relationship (6/12/06)
A Cato Institute Policy Forum featuring Michael Green, Senior Adviser and Japan Chair, Center for Strategic and International Studies; Andrew Oros,
Assistant Professor of Political Science and International Studies, Washington College; and Christopher Preble,
Director of Foreign Policy Studies, Cato Institute.
Two Views on Global Development: Revive the Invisible Hand or Strengthen a "Society of States"? (6/7/06)
A Cato Institute Book Forum featuring Deepak Lal,
University of California at Los Angeles,
Author, Reviving the Invisible Hand: The Case for Classical Liberalism in the Twenty-first Century (Princeton University Press, 2006), and Ethan Kapstein, Center for Global Development,
Author, Economic Justice in an Unfair World: Toward a Level Playing Field (Princeton University Press, 2006).
Gay Marriage: Evidence from Europe? (6/1/06)
A Cato Institute Policy Forum. William N. Eskridge Jr., Professor of Law, Yale University,
Coauthor, Gay Marriage: For Better or For Worse? What We've Learned from the Evidence (Oxford University Press, 2006) and
Maggie Gallagher,
President, Institute for Marriage and Public Policy,
Coauthor, The Case for Marriage.
Health Care University (5/30-30/06)
A Cato Institute Capitol Hill Briefing featuring Peter Van Doren, Senior Fellow, Cato Institute, Former professor of public policy at Princeton, Yale, and UNC-Chapel Hill; Michael Tanner, Director, Health and Welfare Studies, Cato Institute; and Michael F. Cannon, Director, Health Policy Studies, Cato Institute.
Atlanta City Seminar Luncheon Featuring John Stossel of ABC 20/20
Myths, Lies, and Downright Stupidity (5/24/06)
A Cato Institute City Seminar featuring John Stossel, Co-Anchor of ABC's 20/20, Author of Myths, Lies, And Downright Stupidity: Get Out the Shovel—Why Everything You Know Is Wrong (Hyperion, May 2006).
Myths, Lies, and Downright Stupidity
Cato Luncheon featuring John Stossel of ABC 20/20 (5/23/06)
A Cato Institute Book Forum featuring John Stossel, Co-Anchor of ABC's 20/20, Author of Myths, Lies, And Downright Stupidity: Get Out the Shovel--Why Everything You Know Is Wrong (Hyperion, May 2006).
Is the Massachusetts Health Plan a Model for the Nation? (5/23/06)
A Cato Institute Capitol Hill Briefing featuring Len Nichols, Director, Health Policy Program, New America Foundation;
Ron Pollack, Founding Executive, Director, Families USA; Arnold Kling,
Adjunct Scholar, Cato Institute; and Michael Tanner,
Director, Health and Welfare Studies, Cato Institute.
Parental Power: TV Indecency, the FCC, and the Media's Response (5/10/06)
A Cato Institute Policy Forum featuring Jack Valenti, Former President and CEO, Motion Picture Association of America; with comments by Leslie Marx, Chief Economist, Federal Communications Commission; and moderated by Roger Pilon, Director, Center for Constitutional Studies.
A New Era at the Federal Reserve: Some Challenges and Opportunities for Change (5/8/06)
A Cato Institute Policy Forum featuring Shadow Open Market Committee members: Charles Plosser, Cochair;
Anna Schwartz, Cochair; Gregory Hess; Lee Hoskins; Alan Stockman; Bennett McCallum;
and Mickey Levy.
Cato Scholars Square Off
Resolved: The Bush NSA Surveillance Program Is Illegal (5/5/06)
A Cato Institute Policy Forum. The Cato Institute's Center for Constitutional Studies invites you to a debate between Robert A. Levy, Senior Fellow in Constitutional Studies, and
Roger Pilon, Director, Center for Constitutional Studies.
Building Foundations for Freedom, Commerce, and Peace in the Middle East (5/4/06)
A Cato Institute Capitol Hill Briefing featuring
Tom Palmer,
Senior Fellow, Cato Institute,
Director, Byrne Project on Middle East Liberty;
Rep. Paul Ryan,
(R-WI)
Co-chair, Congressional Middle East Economic Partnership Caucus; and
Zainab Al-Suwaij,
Executive Director, American Islamic Congress.
Leaving Women Behind: Modern Families, Outdated Laws (5/4/06)
A Cato Institute Book Forum featuring coauthors John C. Goodman, President, National Center for Policy Analysis; Kim Strassel, Senior Editorial Page Writer, Wall Street Journal; and
with comments by
Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison.
Cato Institute Perspectives 2006 (4/27/06)
A Cato Institute City Seminar featuring David Horowitz, President of the Center for the Study of Popular Culture, and Bradley A. Smith, Professor of Law at Capital University Law School and former chairman of the Federal Election Commission.
Copyright Controversies: Freedom, Property, Content Creation, and the DMCA (4/26/06)
A Cato Institute Conference.
Last Dictatorship in Europe - Cosponsored by the Atlas Foundation (4/25/06)
A Cato Institute Policy Forum featuring Jaroslav Romanchuk, Deputy Chairman, United Civic Party of Belarus;
with comments by Anders Aslund, Senior Fellow, Institute for International Economics; and moderator Marian Tupy,
Assistant Director, Project on Global Economic Liberty, Cato Institute.
Help at Any Cost: How the Troubled-Teen Industry Cons Parents and Hurts Kids (4/20/06)
A Cato Institute Book Forum featuring the author
Maia Szalavitz,
Senior Fellow, Stats.org; and with comments by Evan Wright
Contributing Editor, Rolling Stone
Author, Generation Kill: Devil Dogs, Iceman, Captain America, and the New Face of American War.
The Death of the G8 (4/18/06)
A Cato Institute Press Conference featuring Andrei Illarionov, Former economic adviser to the Russian President.
Trapped: When Acting Ethically Is against the Law
Cosponsored by the Fund for American Studies (4/17/06)
A Cato Institute Book Forum featuring the author John Hasnas, Professor of Law and Ethics,
Georgetown University Business School; and with comments by Alice Fisher, Assistant Attorney General, Criminal Law Division,
Department of Justice.
Cato Institute Perspectives 2006 (4/12/06)
A Cato Institute City Seminar featuring Bruce Bartlett, Author, Impostor: How George W. Bush Bankrupted America and Betrayed the Reagan Legacy (Doubleday release date February 2006).
Policy Perspectives 2006 (4/11/06)
A Cato Institute City Seminar featuring Bruce Bartlett, Author, Impostor: How George W. Bush Bankrupted America and Betrayed the Reagan Legacy (Doubleday release date February 2006).
The Case against a Standing Nation-Building Office (4/7/06)
A Cato Institute Capitol Hill Briefing featuring Justin Logan, Foreign Policy Analyst, Cato Institute; and Christopher Preble, Director of Foreign Policy Studies, Cato Institute.
Corruption in Kenya (3/29/06)
A Cato Institute Policy Forum featuring John Githongo, Former Permanent Secretary for Governance and Ethics in the Office of the President of Kenya; with comments by George Ayittey,
Distinguished Economist in Residence, American University; and moderator Marian Tupy, Assistant Director, Project on Global Economic Liberty, Cato Institute.
Terrorism, Military Tribunals, and the Constitution (3/27/06)
A Cato Institute Policy Forum featuring Charles Swift, Lieutenant Commander, USN Military Counsel for Salim Ahmed Hamdan; and Richard Samp, Chief Counsel Washington Legal Foundation.
Lobby Reform or Regression (3/21/06)
A Cato Institute Capitol Hill Briefing featuring Bradley A. Smith, Former Chairman of the Federal Election Commission &
Senior Adviser to the Center for Competitive Politics; Nan Aron, President, Alliance for Justice; and moderated by
John Samples, Director, Center for Representative Government, Cato Institute.
With Good Intentions: U.S. Foreign Policy and Humanitarian Intervention (3/14/06)
A Cato Institute Policy Forum featuring David Rieff, New York Institute for the Humanities at New York University, Contributing Writer, New York Times Magazine; Charles Kupchan, Senior Fellow, Council on Foreign Relations, Professor of International Relations, Georgetown University; Nikolas Gvosdev, Editor, The National Interest; and Christopher Preble, Director of Foreign Policy Studies, Cato Institute.
The Marketplace of Democracy (3/9/06)
A Cato Institute Conference. Cato Institute, Washington D.C.
The Rise of the Corporate State in Russia (3/7/06)
A Cato Institute Policy Forum featuring Andrei Illarionov, former Economic Adviser to President Vladimir Putin.
Impostor: How George W. Bush Bankrupted America and Betrayed the Reagan Legacy (3/7/06)
A Cato Institute Book Forum featuring the author, Bruce Bartlett; and comments by Andrew Sullivan, author of The Conservative Soul: How We Lost It; How to Get It Back (forthcoming, fall 2006).
An Army of Davids: How Markets and Technology Empower Ordinary People to Beat Big Media, Big Government, and Other Goliaths (3/6/06)
A Cato Institute Book Forum featuring the author, Glenn Reynolds,
Beauchamp Brogan Distinguished Professor of Law, University of Tennessee,
author of Instapundit.com; and comments by Henry Farrell, Assistant Professor of Political Science and International Affairs, George Washington University, Contributor to crookedtimber.org.
18th Annual Benefactor Summit (3/1-5/06)
A Cato Institute Conference. By invitation only.
How Progressives Rewrote the Constitution (2/15/06)
A Cato Institute Book Forum featuring the author, Richard A. Epstein, University of Chicago Law School; and comments by Michael Seidman, Georgetown University Law Center.
The Federal Budget Outlook (2/13/06)
A Cato Institute Capitol Hill Briefing featuring Donald Marron, Acting Director, Congressional Budget Office; Chris Edwards, Director, Tax Policy Studies, Cato Institute; and Stephen Slivinski, Director, Budget Studies, Cato Institute.
Size Matters: How Big Government Puts the Squeeze on America's Families, Finances, and Freedom (And Limits the Pursuit of Happiness) (2/2/06)
A Cato Institute Book Forum featuring the author, Joel Miller; with comments by Jonathan Rauch, Senior Writer, National Journal, Author, Government's End; and moderated by Stephen Slivinski, Director of Budget Studies, Cato Institute.
Spreading Freedom and Saving Money (1/31/06)
A Cato Institute Policy Forum featuring the authors, Susan Aud, Friedman Foundation; Leon Michos, George Washington University; with comments by Kevin Chavous, Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal LLP; Andrew J. Coulson, Cato Institute; and Robert Enlow, Friedman Foundation.
America’s Coming War with China: A Collision Course over Taiwan (1/25/06)
A Cato Institute Book Forum featuring the author, Ted Galen Carpenter, Vice President for Defense and Foreign Policy Studies, Cato Institute; with comments by Clyde Prestowitz, President, Economic Strategy Institute; and Richard C. Bush III, Senior Fellow, Brookings Institution.
Ben Franklin: Conservative, Libertarian, or Radical Democrat? (1/19/06)
A Cato Institute Book Forum featuring the author, Mark Skousen, compiler and editor of The Compleated Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin.
Advancing Economic Freedom in the Middle East (1/18/06)
A Cato Institute Policy Forum featuring Maqbool Ali Sultan, Minister of Commerce and Industry of Oman; Salem Ben Nasser Al Ismaily, Omani Center for Investment Promotion and Export Development; and Fred McMahon, Centre for Globalization Studies Fraser Institute.
Electing to Fight: Why Emerging Democracies Go to War (1/12/06)
A Cato Institute Book Forum featuring the authors, Edward D. Mansfield, University of Pennsylvania; Jack Snyder, Columbia University; with comments by Thomas Carothers, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace; and Robert W. Merry, President and Publisher of Congressional Quarterly.
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