# Contributors 2017 • Cato Handbook for Policymakers [ Download PDF ](https://www.cato.org/sites/cato.org/files/serials/files/cato-handbook-policymakers/2017/2/cato-handbook-for-policymakers-8th-edition-81_0.pdf) **Emma Ashford** is a research fellow at the Cato Institute. **Doug Bandow** is a senior fellow at the Cato Institute and author of *The Korean Conundrum*. **Adam Bates** is a policy analyst with Cato’s Project on Criminal Justice. **Jason Bedrick,** a former analyst in the Cato Institute’s Center for Educational Freedom, is director for state programs for EdChoice. **David Boaz** is executive vice president of the Cato Institute, author of *The Libertarian Mind: A Manifesto for Freedom*, and editor of *The Libertarian Reader*. **Ike Brannon** is a visiting fellow at the Cato Institute. **Trevor Burrus** is a research fellow in the Cato Institute’s Center for Constitutional Studies and managing editor of the *Cato Supreme Court Review*. **Mark A. Calabria** is director of financial regulation studies at the Cato Institute. **Michael F. Cannon** is the Cato Institute’s director of health policy studies, coeditor of *Replacing Obamacare: The Cato Institute on Health Care Reform*, and coauthor of *Healthy Competition: What’s Holding Back Health Care and How to Free It*. **Ted Galen Carpenter** is a senior fellow for defense and foreign policy studies at the Cato Institute and author of *Smart Power: Toward a Prudent Foreign Policy for America*. **Chris Edwards** is director of tax policy studies at the Cato Institute, editor of [Down​siz​ing​Gov​ern​ment​.org](http://DownsizingGovernment.org), and coauthor of *Global Tax Revolution: The Rise of Tax Competition and the Battle to Defend It*. **Matthew Feeney** is a policy analyst at the Cato Institute. **Thomas Firey** is managing editor of the Cato Institute’s magazine *Regulation*. **Benjamin H. Friedman** is a research fellow in defense and homeland security studies at the Cato Institute. **Eric Gomez** is a policy analyst for defense and foreign policy studies at the Cato Institute. **Jim Harper**, a former senior fellow at the Cato Institute, is a vice president at the Competitive Enterprise Institute, author of *Identity Crisis: How Identification Is Overused and Misunderstood*, and coeditor of *Terrorizing Ourselves: How U.S. Counterterrorism Policy Is Failing and How to Fix It*. **Gene Healy** is a vice president at the Cato Institute and author of *The Cult of the Presidency: America’s Dangerous Devotion to Executive Power*. **Juan Carlos Hidalgo** is a policy analyst on Latin America at the Cato Institute’s Center for Global Liberty and Prosperity. **Daniel J. Ikenson** is director of Cato’s Herbert A. Stiefel Center for Trade Policy Studies and coauthor of *Antidumping Exposed: The Devilish Details of Unfair Trade Law*. **Paul C. “Chip” Knappenberger** is assistant director of the Center for the Study of Science at the Cato Institute and coauthor of *Lukewarming: The New Climate Science that Changes Everything*. **Thaya Brook Knight** is associate director of financial regulation studies at the Cato Institute. **David B. Kopel** is research director at the Independence Institute, an adjunct scholar at the Cato Institute, and author of *The Truth about Gun Control.* **Robert A. Levy** is chairman of the Cato Institute. He served as co-counsel in *District of Columbia v. Heller*, the successful Supreme Court challenge to Washington, D.C.‘s gun ban. **Brink Lindsey** is vice president for research at the Cato Institute, author of *Human Capitalism: How Economic Growth Has Made Us Smarter — and More Unequal*, and editor of *Reviving Economic Growth: Policy Proposals from 51 Leading Experts* and *Understanding the Growth Slowdown*. **Tim Lynch** is director of the Cato Institute’s Project on Criminal Justice and editor of *In the Name of Justice: Leading Experts Reexamine the Classic Article “The Aims of the Criminal Law”* and *After Prohibition: An Adult Approach to Drug Policies in the 21st Century*. **Neal McCluskey** is director of Cato’s Center for Educational Freedom and author of *Feds in the Classroom: How Big Government Corrupts, Cripples, and Compromises American Education*. **Patrick J. Michaels** is director of the Center for the Study of Science at the Cato Institute and coauthor of *Lukewarming: The New Climate Science That Changes Everything*. **Jeffrey Miron** is director of economic studies at the Cato Institute, director of undergraduate studies in the Department of Economics at Harvard University, and author of *Libertarianism from A to Z.* **Daniel J. Mitchell** is a senior fellow at the Cato Institute and coauthor of *Global Tax Revolution: The Rise of Tax Competition and the Battle to Defend It*. **Mark Moller,** the former editor of the *Cato Supreme Court Review*, is an associate professor of law at DePaul College of Law. **John Mueller** is a senior fellow at the Cato Institute, author of *Overblown: How Politicians and the Terrorism Industry Inflate National Security Threats and Why We Believe Them*, coauthor of *Chasing Ghosts: The Policing of Terrorism*, and coeditor of *A Dangerous World? Threat Perception and U.S. National Security*. **Alex Nowrasteh** is an immigration policy analyst at the Cato Institute’s Center for Global Liberty and Prosperity. He is the coauthor of the booklet *Open Immigration: Yea and Nay*. **Walter Olson** is a senior fellow at the Cato Institute’s Center for Constitutional Studies and author of *The Rule of Lawyers*, *The Excuse Factory*, *The Litigation Explosion*, and most recently *Schools for Misrule*. **Randal O’Toole** is a senior fellow at the Cato Institute and author of *Reforming the Forest Service*, *The Vanishing Automobile and Other Urban Myths*, *The Best-Laid Plans*, and *American Nightmare: How Government Undermines the Dream of Homeownership*. **Tom G. Palmer** is a senior fellow at the Cato Institute, executive vice president for international programs at the Atlas Network, author of *Realizing Freedom: Libertarian Theory, History, and Practice*, and editor of *The Morality of Capitalism: What Your Professors Won’t Tell You* and *Self-Control or State Control? You Decide*. **Roger Pilon** is vice president for legal affairs and director of the Center for Constitutional Studies at the Cato Institute. **Christopher Preble** is vice president for defense and foreign policy studies at the Cato Institute, author of *The Power Problem: How American Military Dominance Makes Us Less Safe, Less Prosperous, and Less Free*, and coeditor of *A Dangerous World? Threat Perception and U.S. National Security* and *Terrorizing Ourselves: Why U.S. Counterterrorism Policy Is Failing and How to Fix It*. **Sheldon Richman** is executive editor of The Libertarian Institute. **John Samples** is vice president and publisher at the Cato Institute and author of *The Struggle to Limit Government: A Modern Political History* and *The Fallacy of Campaign Finance Reform*. **Julian Sanchez** is a senior fellow at the Cato Institute. **George Selgin** is a senior fellow and director of the Center for Monetary and Financial Alternatives at the Cato Institute and author of *The Theory of Free Banking* and most recently *Good Money: Birmingham Button Makers, the Royal Mint, and the Beginnings of Modern Coinage, 1775–1821*. **Bradford Stapleton** is a research fellow in defense and foreign policy at the Cato Institute. **Michael D. Tanner** is a senior fellow at the Cato Institute, author of *Going for Broke: Deficits, Debt, and the Entitlement Crisis* and *The Poverty of Welfare: Helping Others in Civil Society*, and coauthor of *A New Deal for Social Security*. **A. Trevor Thrall** is a senior fellow at the Cato Institute, professor of international security at George Mason University, and coeditor of *American Foreign Policy and the Politics of Fear: Threat Inflation since 9/11*. **Marian L. Tupy** is the editor of [Human​Progress​.org](http://HumanProgress.org) and a senior policy analyst at Cato’s Center for Global Liberty and Prosperity. **Ian Vásquez** is director of the Cato Institute’s Center for Global Liberty and Prosperity, coauthor of *The Human Freedom Index*, and editor of *Global Fortune: The Stumble and Rise of World Capitalism*. **Peter Van Doren** is a senior fellow at the Cato Institute, editor of the quarterly journal *Regulation*, and author of *Chemicals, Cancer, and Choices; Risk Reduction through Markets*. ### Download This Cato Handbook for Policymakers Article ##### Contributors [ Download PDF ](https://www.cato.org/sites/cato.org/files/serials/files/cato-handbook-policymakers/2017/2/cato-handbook-for-policymakers-8th-edition-81_0.pdf) [ Download PDF ](https://www.cato.org/sites/cato.org/files/serials/files/cato-handbook-policymakers/2017/2/cato-handbook-for-policymakers-8th-edition-81_0.pdf)