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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.
November 28, 2012
Featuring a presentation and live discussion with Michael F. Cannon Director of Health Policy Studies, Cato Institute.
August 29, 2012
Featuring a presentation and live discussion with Michael D. Tanner, Senior Fellow, Cato Institute; moderated by Caleb O. Brown, Director of Multimedia.
July 10, 2012
Featuring Michael Cannon, Director of Health Policy Studies, Cato Institute; Ilya Shapiro, Senior Fellow in Constitutional Studies, Cato Institute; Michael Tanner, Senior Fellow, Cato Institute; moderated by Laura Odato, Director of Government Affairs, Cato Institute.
July 2, 2012
Featuring Randy Barnett, Georgetown University Law Center; Ilya Shapiro, Cato Institute; David Rivkin, Baker Hostetler LLP; Michael F. Cannon, Cato Institute; Avik Roy, Manhattan Institute; Grace-Marie Turner, Galen Institute; moderated by Michael Tanner, Cato Institute and Roger Pilon, Cato Institute.
June 29, 2012
Featuring a presentation and live discussion with Michael Cannon, Director of Health Policy Studies, Cato Institute; Ilya Shapiro, Senior Fellow in Constitutional Studies, Cato Institute, Editor-in-Chief, Cato Supreme Court Review; moderated by Caleb O. Brown, Director of Multimedia.
April 14, 2011
Featuring Robert A. Levy, Chairman, Cato Institute; Michael F. Cannon, Director of Health Policy Studies, Cato Institute, and Coauthor, Healthy Competition: What’s Holding Back Health Care and How to Free It.
March 21, 2011
David Rivkin, Partner, Baker & Hostetler LLP, and attorney for plaintiffs in Florida v. HHS; Moderated by Ramesh Ponnuru, Senior Editor, National Review; Michael F. Cannon, Director of Health Policy Studies, Cato Institute; Ron Pollack, Executive Director, Families USA; Douglas Holtz-Eakin, President, American Action Forum; former Director, Congressional Budget Office; Kavita Patel, M.D., Managing Director of Delivery-System Reform at the Engelberg Center for Health Care Reform, Brookings Institution, former Director of Policy for the White House Office of Public Engagement and Intergovernmental Affairs, and former Deputy Staff Director for the Senate HELP Committee chairman Senator Edward Kennedy; Roger Pilon, Vice President for Legal Affairs, Cato Institute; Neera Tanden, Chief Operating Officer, Center for American Progress. Moderated by Jan Crawford, CBS News Chief Legal Correspondent.
March 2, 2011
Featuring contributor Grace-Marie Turner, Galen Institute; with comments by Len Nichols, Center for Health Policy Research and Ethics, George Mason University; and Michael F. Cannon, Cato Institute.
March 25, 2010
Featuring John Z. Ayanian, Professor of Medicine and Health Care Policy, Harvard Medical School and Brigham and Women’s Hospital; David Meltzer, Associate Professor of Medicine and Economics, University of Chicago; and Michael F. Cannon, Director of Health Policy Studies, Cato Institute.
February 22, 2010
Featuring Michael F. Cannon, Director of Health Policy Studies, Cato Institute; and C. Eugene Steuerle, Institute Fellow and Richard B. Fisher Chair, Urban Institute.
September 9, 2009
Featuring Michael D. Tanner, Senior Fellow, Cato Institute, and author, Healthy Competition: What’s Holding Back Health Care and How to Free It.
July 20, 2009
Featuring June E. O’Neill, Former CBO Director and Wollman Distinguished Professor of Economics and Director of the Center for the Study of Business and Government, Baruch College, City University of New York; and Michael Tanner, Senior Fellow, Cato Institute.