# Cato University Summer 2007

## Daily Schedule

[About the Seminar](/cato-university/2007) | Schedule | [Faculty](/cato-university/2007/faculty) | [Photo Gallery](/cato-university/2007/photogallery)

| **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 |
| **Reception, dinner, and evening presentation** **[Tom G. Palmer](javascript:void(0))** – “Why Liberty?” |

| **Monday, July 23** |
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| **Breakfast** |
| **Morning Sessions** **[Tom G. Palmer](javascript:void(0))** – “The Historical Struggle for Liberty: 2300 BC – 1776 AD” **[Robert McDonald](javascript:void(0))** –“1776: The Revolution that Changed the World” |
| **Lunch** |
| **Afternoon Sessions** **[Glen Whitman](javascript:void(0))** – “The Economic Way of Thinking” **[David T. Beito](javascript:void(0))** – “Libertarianism and the Struggle for Equal Rights” |
| **Free Time** |
| **Dinner & Evening Presentation** **[Glen Whitman](javascript:void(0))** – “The Economics of Politics” |

| **Tuesday, July 24** |
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| **Breakfast** |
| **Morning Sessions** **[Marcus Cole](javascript:void(0))** – “Property, Contract, and Freedom” **[Tom G. Palmer](javascript:void(0))** – “The Logic of Individual Rights” |
| **Lunch** |
| **Afternoon Sessions** **[Marcus Cole](javascript:void(0))** – “A Constitution of Enumerated Powers and Unenumerated Rights” **[Robert McDonald](javascript:void(0))** – “The Depressing Story of Civil War, World War, and Great Depression” |
| **Free Time** |
| **Dinner & Evening Presentation** **[Glen Whitman](javascript:void(0))** – “The Economics of Prohibition” |

| **Wednesday, July 25** |
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| **Breakfast** |
| **Morning Sessions** **[Marcus Cole](javascript:void(0))** – “Legal Order without Coercion” **[Glen Whitman](javascript:void(0))** – “The Economics of the Environment” |
| **Lunch** |
| **Afternoon Session (your choice)** **[Marcus Cole](javascript:void(0))** – “Law and Economics of the Regulatory State” or **[Ronald Krieger](javascript:void(0))** – “Wall Street ‘Wisdom’ and the Wisdom of Markets” |
| **Extended Free Time** |
| **Dinner & Evening Presentation** **[Brian Doherty](javascript:void(0))** – “The Emergence of the Modern Libertarian Movement” |

| **Thursday, July 26** |
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| **Breakfast** |
| **Morning Sessions** **[Brian Doherty](javascript:void(0))** – “Libertarian Models of Political and Social Change” **[David T. Beito](javascript:void(0))** – “Welfare without the Welfare State” |
| **Lunch** |
| **Afternoon Session** **[Robert McDonald](javascript:void(0))** – “New Deal, New Frontier, Great Society, and the Modern American Welfare State” and choice between: **[Ronald Krieger](javascript:void(0))**, – “Economic Liberty: Free the S&P 500” or **[David Boaz](javascript:void(0))** – “Why Government Grows Too Big” |
| **Free Time** |
| **Dinner & Evening Presentation** **[David Boaz](javascript:void(0))** – “The Coming Century of Liberty” |

| **Friday, July 27** |
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| **Breakfast** |
| **Morning Session** **[Tom G. Palmer](javascript:void(0))** – “The Rhetoric of Liberty” |
| **Farewell Gathering & Departure** |

**The 2007 Cato University is co-sponsored by the [Donald and Paula Smith Family Foundation](http://thesmithfamilyfoundation.org/)**