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Featuring Frederick W. Smith, Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer, FedEx Corporation; Andrew Morriss, D. Paul Jones Jr. & Charlene A. Jones Chairholder in Law and Professor of Business, University of Alabama; and James L. Smith, Cary M. Maguire Chair in Oil and Gas Management, Southern Methodist University; moderated by Jerry Taylor, Senior Fellow, Cato Institute.
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In the latest issue of Regulation magazine, M. Todd Henderson reviews last year’s brouhaha over health insurance and birth control. According to Henderson, lost in the firestorm about religion and feminism were larger lessons about health care policy and regulation. Also in this issue, Cato scholar Richard L. Gordon argues that new federal efforts to cut emissions are the result of longstanding legal and judicial mandates, not a sudden Obama administration push.
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Contrary to countless tales of its demise, U.S. manufacturing has always been strong relative to its own past and relative to other countries’ manufacturing sectors.
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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.
Countries That Cut Debt, Taxes and Spending Are Thriving
By Alan Reynolds. Investor’s Business Daily. April 3, 2013.
By Juan Carlos Hidalgo. New York Post. March 6, 2013.
By Dalibor Rohac. Washington Times. February 28, 2013.
Humanity Unbound: How Fossil Fuels Saved Humanity from Nature and Nature from Humanity
By Indur M. Goklany. Policy Analysis No. 715. December 19, 2012.
Can We Determine the Optimal Size of Government?
By James A. Kahn. Development Briefing Paper No. 7. September 14, 2011.
The Elephant That Became a Tiger: 20 Years of Economic Reform in India
By Swaminathan S. Anklesaria Aiyar. Development Policy Analysis No. 13. July 20, 2011.
Steve H. Hanke. The Annals of the American Academy. No. 579. December 2001.
By Ian Vásquez. Testimony. July 17, 1997.
Entrepreneurs Are the Heroes of the World
Johan Norberg. Cato's Letter. Winter 2007.
Bringing Capitalism to the Masses
Hernando de Soto. Cato's Letter. Summer 2004.
Cry the Beloved Country: South Africa’s Future under the ANC
Featuring Marian L. Tupy. March 14, 2013. Policy Forum.
The U.S. Generalized System of Preferences: Helping the Poor, But at What Price?
Featuring Sallie James and Daniel Griswold. December 14, 2010. Policy Forum.
A Superpower in What? A Look Into the Nature of Russia’s Social Order
Featuring Andrei Illarionov. March 17, 2010. Policy Forum.
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