Cato University Summer 2007
Daily Schedule
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| Sunday, July 22 |
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Afternoon Registration and an opportunity to get-acquainted with faculty members and other participants – and to learn your way around the magnificent Rancho Bernardo Inn |
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Reception, dinner, and evening presentation Tom G. Palmer – “Why Liberty?” |
| Monday, July 23 |
| Breakfast |
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Morning Sessions Tom G. Palmer – “The Historical Struggle for Liberty: 2300 BC – 1776 AD” Robert McDonald –“1776: The Revolution that Changed the World” |
| Lunch |
| Afternoon Sessions Glen Whitman – “The Economic Way of Thinking” David T. Beito – “Libertarianism and the Struggle for Equal Rights” |
| Free Time |
| Dinner & Evening Presentation Glen Whitman – “The Economics of Politics” |
| Tuesday, July 24 |
| Breakfast |
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Morning Sessions Marcus Cole – “Property, Contract, and Freedom” Tom G. Palmer – “The Logic of Individual Rights” |
| Lunch |
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Afternoon Sessions Marcus Cole – “A Constitution of Enumerated Powers and Unenumerated Rights” Robert McDonald – “The Depressing Story of Civil War, World War, and Great Depression” |
| Free Time |
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Dinner & Evening Presentation Glen Whitman – “The Economics of Prohibition” |
| Wednesday, July 25 |
| Breakfast |
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Morning Sessions Marcus Cole – “Legal Order without Coercion” Glen Whitman – “The Economics of the Environment” |
| Lunch |
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Afternoon Session (your choice) Marcus Cole – “Law and Economics of the Regulatory State” or Ronald Krieger – “Wall Street 'Wisdom' and the Wisdom of Markets” |
| Extended Free Time |
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Dinner & Evening Presentation Brian Doherty – “The Emergence of the Modern Libertarian Movement” |
| Thursday, July 26 |
| Breakfast |
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Morning Sessions Brian Doherty – “Libertarian Models of Political and Social Change” David T. Beito – “Welfare without the Welfare State” |
| Lunch |
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Afternoon Session Robert McDonald – “New Deal, New Frontier, Great Society, and the Modern American Welfare State” and choice between: Ronald Krieger, – “Economic Liberty: Free the S&P 500” or David Boaz – “Why Government Grows Too Big” |
| Free Time |
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Dinner & Evening Presentation David Boaz – “The Coming Century of Liberty” |
| Friday, July 27 |
| Breakfast |
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Morning Session Tom G. Palmer – “The Rhetoric of Liberty” |
| Farewell Gathering & Departure |
The 2007 Cato University is co-sponsored by the Donald and Paula Smith Family Foundation