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Does Compulsory Licensing Discourage Invention? Evidence from German Patents after World War I
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October 20
Featuring the authors Ted Galen Carpenter, Senior Fellow, Cato Institute; and Malou Innocent, Adjunct Scholar, Cato Institute; with comments by Andrew J. Bacevich, Professor Emeritus of History and International Relations, Boston University; and Jacob Heilbrunn, Editor, The National Interest; moderated by Christopher Preble, Vice President for Defense and Foreign Policy Studies, Cato Institute.
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In this issue of Regulation, law professors Roderick M. Hills Jr. and David Schleicher recommend an unlikely cure for zoning regulations that are strangling our cities: binding, comprehensive, citywide plans. Also in this issue, Richard A. Booth argues against adopting the European approach to insider trading, and Pierre Lemieux illustrates how “public health” as a concept has become divorced from its original, intended meaning.
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CBS announces that Star Trek will return, on its paid subscriber service, in 2017. Too bad the FCC didn’t follow policy recommendations in the Spring 2005 issue Regulation, or the series may have returned a decade ago.
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American leaders have cooperated with regimes around the world that are, to varying degrees, repressive or corrupt. Such cooperation is said to serve the national interest. But these partnerships also contravene the nation’s commitments to democratic governance, civil liberties, and free markets. In Perilous Partners, authors Ted Galen Carpenter and Malou Innocent provide a strategy for resolving the ethical dilemmas between interests and values faced by Washington.
Cato Annual Report 2014
The Cato Institute has released its 2014 Annual Report, which documents a dynamic year of growth and productivity. “Libertarianism is the philosophy of freedom,” Cato’s David Boaz writes in his book, The Libertarian Mind. “It is the indispensable framework for the future.” And as the new report demonstrates, the Cato Institute, thanks largely to the generosity of our Sponsors, is leading the charge to apply this framework across the policy spectrum.
