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Move to Defend: The Case against the Constitutional Amendments Seeking to Overturn Citizens United
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May 17
Featuring Benjamin H. Friedman, Research Fellow in Defense and Homeland Security Studies, Cato Institute; Spencer Ackerman, Senior Writer, WIRED Magazine; and Julian Sanchez, Research Fellow, Cato Institute; moderated by Laura Odato, Director of Government Affairs, Cato Institute.
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In the new issue of Cato Policy Report, Cato President and CEO John A. Allison argues that the Federal Reserve is increasing the long-term risk in our financial system through both its monetary and regulatory policies. Also in this issue, James D. Gwartney looks at the incomplete “public choice revolution,” and explains how mainstream economics is leaving both current students and the general public with a misleading, false, and romantic view of government and the operation of the democratic political process.
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More Bang for Your Buck
The Cato Institute tops a new measure of think tank performance in the United States, according to a recent report. Cato bested all other U.S. think tanks in the main category of “Aggregate Profile per Dollar Spent.” “I’m grateful to the Center for Global Development for showing that Cato gives its sponsors something I wish government gave more of to taxpayers: bang for the buck,” said Cato CEO John Allison.
August 14, 2007
Featuring the author, John R. Lott Jr., Senior Research Scientist, University of Maryland, with comments by Jared Bernstein, Director, Living Standards Program, Economic Policy Institute, and Michael New, Assistant Professor of Political Science, University of Alabama.
April 16, 2007
Featuring Johnny Munkhammar, Program Director, Timbro, Sweden; Ezra Klein Writing Fellow, American Prospect; and Dan Mitchell, Senior Fellow, Cato Institute.
September 21, 2006
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).
September 7, 2006
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.
July 20, 2006
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.
July 17, 2006
June 21, 2006
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
May 4, 2006
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.
March 7, 2006
Featuring Andrei Illarionov, former Economic Adviser to President Vladimir Putin.
February 15, 2006
Featuring the author, Richard A. Epstein, University of Chicago Law School; and comments by Michael Seidman, Georgetown University Law Center.
February 2, 2006
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.
January 18, 2006
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.