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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.
Teachers and Education Reformers Bypass Individual Students
By Nat Hentoff. Cato.org. March 27, 2013.
OUSD Made Wrong Decision to Close American Indian Charter Schools
By Andrew J. Coulson. San Jose Mercury News. March 26, 2013.
Killing School Choice Hurts Poor Families
By Jason Bedrick. New Hampshire Business Review. March 8, 2013.
Private School Chains in Chile: Do Better Schools Scale Up?
By Gregory Elacqua, Dante Contreras, Felipe Salazar & Humberto Santos. Policy Analysis No. 682. August 16, 2011.
The Other Lottery: Are Philanthropists Backing the Best Charter Schools?
By Andrew J. Coulson. Policy Analysis No. 677. June 6, 2011.
Do Vouchers and Tax Credits Increase Private School Regulation?
By Andrew J. Coulson. Working Paper No. 1. October 5, 2010.
Comparing Public, Private, and Market Schools: The International Evidence
Andrew J. Coulson. Journal of School Choice. Vol. 3. 2009.
School Choice Snapshot: A 2006 Survey of U.S. Policy and Advocacy Organizations
Adam B. Schaeffer. Mackinac Center for Public Policy: Policy Brief. October 2, 2006.
Arizona Christian School Tuition Organization v. Winn
By Andrew J. Coulson and Ilya Shapiro. Legal Briefs. August 4, 2010.
Arizona Christian School Tuition Organization v. Winn
By Andrew J. Coulson and Ilya Shapiro. Legal Briefs. March 22, 2010.
Public Education in Washington DC
By Casey J. Lartigue Jr.. Testimony. May 9, 2003.
School Choice and Development: Evidence from the Edgewood Experiment
John Merrifield and Nathan L. Gray. Cato Journal. Winter 2013.
Chicago: Teachers Unions’ Last Stand?
Featuring Caleb O. Brown and Neal McCluskey. September 19, 2012. Sponsor E-Briefing.
Cloning “Superman”: What Other Countries Already Know about Scaling Up Good Schools
Featuring Andrew J. Coulson. January 28, 2011. Policy Forum.
The Beautiful Tree: A Personal Journey Into How the World’s Poorest People Are Educating Themselves
Featuring Andrew J. Coulson. April 15, 2009. Book Forum.
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