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Cato Institute Policy Perspectives 2015

Wednesday, December 2, 2015
11:00 a.m. — 2:00 p.m.

The Drake Hotel
140 East Walton Place, Chicago, IL

Featuring Terence Kealey, Author, The Economic Laws of Scientific Research, Adjunct Scholar, Cato Institute; Ronald Bailey, Author, The End of Doom: Environmental Renewal in the Twenty‐​first Century Science Correspondent, Reason; Peter Goettler, President and CEO, Cato Institute; and George Selgin, Senior Fellow and Director, Center for Monetary and Financial Alternatives, Cato Institute.

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10:30 – 10:50AM. Registration
10:50 – 11:00AM Welcoming Remarks

Peter Goettler, President and CEO, Cato Institute
11:00 – 11:40AM Keynote Address—The End of Doom

Ronald Bailey, Author, The End of Doom: Environmental Renewal in the Twenty‐​first Century Science Correspondent, Reason
11:40AM – 12:10PM Instead of the Fed: How Financial Deregulation Could Have Ended Financial Crises a Century Ago, and How It Still Can

George Selgin, Senior Fellow and Director, Center for Monetary and Financial Alternatives, Cato Institute

Download a podcast of the ‘Welcoming Remarks,’ ‘Keynote Address,’ and ‘Instead of the Fed: How Financial Deregulation Could Have Ended Financial Crises a Century Ago, and How It Still Can.’

12:10 – 12:40PM Reception
12:40 – 2:00PM Luncheon Address—Truman, Eisenhower and LBJ Were Right to Be Skeptical about Government Funding of Science

Terence Kealey, Author, The Economic Laws of Scientific Research, Adjunct Scholar, Cato Institute

Download a podcast of the ‘Luncheon Address—Truman, Eisenhower and LBJ Were Right to Be Skeptical about Government Funding of Science.’

For further information on the seminar, please call Jenna Huhn at (202) 218‑4617 or e‐​mail her at jhuhn@​cato.​org.

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