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Aufzeichnungen von Diskussionsforen, Buchvorstellungen und anderen Veranstaltungen. Cato’s Letters sind über 144 anfangs Essays aus den 1720ern, ihre beiden anfangs anonymen Verfasser sprachen sich darin für Gedanken- und Meinungsfreiheit aus.

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482) Design for Liberty: Private Property, Public Administration, and the Rule of Law

(http://www.amazon.com/Design-Liberty-Private-Property-Administration/dp/0674061845/catoinstitute-20)Without question, the most profound domestic change in America over the past century has been the vast expansion of government under the progressive worldview. Defining itself in opposition to once-d...

Datum: 15.12.2011 05:00 • Größe: 38.5 MB

481) Publication Practices for Transparent Government: Budgeting, Appropriating and S

In the Internet era, the public expects a more transparent government, but Congress and the administration do not perform their budgeting, appropriating, and spending functions in ways that facilitate public oversight and participation. The government could make the flow of spending authority and do...

Datum: 14.12.2011 17:00 • Größe: 33.6 MB

480) Congressional War Powers after Libya

The United States' engagement in Libya led to the overthrow of the Qaddafi regime. President Obama declared and conducted the war in Libya with little regard for Congress or the War Powers Act, with the acquiescence, if not the approval, of Congress. Does war in Libya mark a final transfer of the po...

Datum: 13.12.2011 17:00 • Größe: 37.1 MB

479) Left Turn: How Liberal Media Bias Distorts the American Mind

Many people believe that the mainstream media favors liberal points of view. Studies of media bias, however, have found mixed results. Tim Groseclose, a professor of political science and economics at UCLA, has spent years constructing precise, quantitative measures of the slants of media outlets. U...

Datum: 30.11.2011 17:00 • Größe: 50.9 MB

478) The Market for Law

Is there a market for good law? Without the state providing law, could it be offered by multiple, private, and competing agencies? David Friedman, professor of law at Santa Clara University, explored this idea in his classic 1973 book, The Machinery of Freedom: Guide to a Radical Capitalism. But in ...

Datum: 29.11.2011 17:00 • Größe: 33.1 MB

477) Panel 1: How Should We Define and Measure Faculty Productivity?

Viewed from a traditional perspective, higher education gives people both new skills and enlightenment, making it indispensable to economic growth and personal fulfillment. But is that what we are getting? Viewed from other perspectives, we may not be: The Ivory Tower, it seems, is often weighed do...

Datum: 18.11.2011 14:15 • Größe: 69.8 MB

476) Capital Inadequacies: The Dismal Failure of the Basel Bank Capital Standards

Cato scholar Kevin Dowd will present his recent paper, "Capital Inadequacies: the Dismal Failure of the Basel Regime of Bank Capital Regulation (http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=13490)." The Basel regime is an international system of capital adequacy regulation designed to strengthen banks...

Datum: 17.11.2011 17:00 • Größe: 38.2 MB

475) 29th Monetary Conference: Welcoming Remarks and Keynote Address

CATO'S 29th ANNUAL MONETARY CONFERENCE — MONETARY REFORM IN THE WAKE OF CRISIS — will address the fundamental issue of how to prevent another global financial crisis — not by tinkering with the present government discretionary fiat money regime but by fundamental reform. The first...

Datum: 16.11.2011 14:00 • Größe: 23.6 MB

474) Ending the Global War on Drugs: Keynote Address

Although the global prohibition of drugs has manifestly failed to stem the use of narcotics, it has generated enormous costs and perverse outcomes. In the United States, the war on drugs is generating alarming violations of civil liberties, weakening the rule of law, and compromising law enforcement...

Datum: 15.11.2011 14:00 • Größe: 48.8 MB

473) The Relationship between Intelligence and Policy

At the heart of recent national security controversies, including 9/11 and the war in Iraq, lies the troubled relationship between intelligence and policy. Two timely new books shine a spotlight on the problem. In Fixing the Facts, Joshua Rovner chronicles major episodes in the history of American f...

Datum: 31.10.2011 16:00 • Größe: 50.4 MB

472) Engineering the Financial Crisis: Systemic Risk and the Failure of Regulation

(http://www.amazon.com/Engineering-Financial-Crisis-Systemic-Regulation/dp/0812243579/?tag=catoinstitute-20)The financial crisis revealed the most significant danger of modern government: it homogenizes the behavior of the people subject to its regulations. If the regulators make a mistake, the enti...

Datum: 27.10.2011 20:00 • Größe: 45.2 MB

471) How Much Ivory Does This Tower Need?

It is often asserted that taxpayer support for higher education is dwindling, endangering the nation's economic future and forcing higher tuition prices. In reality that is far from the truth. Almost any way you slice it the taxpayer burden for America's ivory tower has been on the rise, while the r...

Datum: 27.10.2011 16:00 • Größe: 18.4 MB

470) Is Liberty Losing Ground in America?

America is widely known as the land of the free, but is it also true that liberty has been yielding ground to government power? Two recent books maintain that civil liberties have dramatically eroded here in recent years. ACLU president Susan Herman argues that our constitutional system of checks an...

Datum: 27.10.2011 16:00 • Größe: 63.5 MB

469) How Much Homeland Security Is Enough?

(http://www.amazon.com/Terror-Security-Money-Balancing-Benefits/dp/0199795762/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1316809993&sr=8-1?tag=catoinstitute-20)Americans tend to evaluate homeland security by asking, "Does it make us safer?" That, however, is the wrong question. Even the most extravagantly was...

Datum: 24.10.2011 16:00 • Größe: 58.6 MB

468) James Madison

(hhttp://www.amazon.com/James-Madison-Richard-Brookhiser/dp/0465019838/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1317137015&sr=8-1?tag=catoinstitute-20)James Madison led one of the most influential and prolific lives in American history. Although sometimes overshadowed by his more celebrated contemporaries, ...

Datum: 19.10.2011 16:00 • Größe: 38.5 MB

467) ECPA at 25: How to Modernize the Law to Better Protect Electronic Privacy

In 1986, when cellular phones were brick-sized novelties and most Americans had never even heard of "electronic mail," Congress passed the Electronic Communications Privacy Act (ECPA). Yet after 25 years of innovation, ECPA has fallen badly out of step with the way Americans use information technolo...

Datum: 19.10.2011 13:00 • Größe: 61.5 MB

466) Mexico and the War on Drugs: Time to Legalize

Mexico is paying a high price for fighting a war on drugs that are consumed in the United States. More than 40,000 people have died in drug-related violence since the end of 2006 when Mexico began an aggressive campaign against narco-trafficking. The drug war has led to a rise in corruption and grue...

Datum: 18.10.2011 16:00 • Größe: 64.1 MB

465) Frédéric Bastiat: Campaigner for Free Trade, Political Economist, and Politician

Frédéric Bastiat was a pivotal figure in French classical liberalism in the mid-19th century. He suddenly emerged from the southwest province of Les Landes to assume leadership of the fledgling French free trade movement in 1844, which he modelled on that of Richard Cobden's Anti-Corn Law ...

Datum: 14.10.2011 16:00 • Größe: 69.4 MB

464) Is Islam Compatible with the Free Market?

Islamist literature rejects central features of modernity common in the West, including capitalism. Many Muslim countries restrict economic freedoms necessary to sustain other liberties. Author Mustafa Akyol will describe how the theological attitude and historical experience of Islam toward busines...

Datum: 14.10.2011 16:00 • Größe: 35.9 MB

463) The Oregon Health Insurance Experiment and Evidence-Based Health Reform

The Oregon Health Insurance Experiment is the first study ever to measure the effects of health insurance by randomly assigning subjects to receive Medicaid coverage or no coverage. At this forum, lead investigator Katherine Baicker will present the Oregon Health Insurance Experiment's first set of ...

Datum: 07.10.2011 04:00 • Größe: 78.1 MB

462) Abolish the Transportation Security Administration

Ten years after the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, federalized aviation security has proven costly, reactive, and an intrusive failure. Restoring security responsibility to airports and airlines would provide numerous benefits to the traveling public without compromising security. Join us ...

Datum: 30.09.2011 16:00 • Größe: 36.6 MB

461) Publication Practices for Transparent Government: Rating the Congress

Despite good-faith effort, transparency promises from political leaders like President Barack Obama and House Speaker John Boehner have yet to produce the burst of information that informs stronger public oversight of government. One reason for this is the absence of specifically prescribed data pra...

Datum: 23.09.2011 13:00 • Größe: 49.6 MB

460) Panel I: Elections, Video Games, Scholarships: Another Big Year for the First Am

Datum: 15.09.2011 13:00 • Größe: 61.8 MB

459) U.S. Debt and the Millennials: Is Washington Creating a Lost Generation?

It is a tumultuous time to be a young American. The national debt is accruing at a record pace, more than doubling in the past decade to reach $14.6 trillion today, and future liabilities threaten to drive government spending even higher. Job growth has been tepid, with unemployment persistently ove...

Datum: 18.08.2011 22:30 • Größe: 84.5 MB

458) Puritans, Politicians, and Paternalism: Can We Take Back Control of Our Own Live

We were promised a government that would protect our rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. But H. L. Mencken said that Puritanism is "the haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy," and politicians on both left and right certainly demonstrate that. In today's world there i...

Datum: 10.08.2011 16:00 • Größe: 31.9 MB

457) Debate: Libertarianism vs. Conservatism

Liberty and virtue are values that both conservatives and libertarians tout as components of their philosophies. Historically, disagreements about the definitions of and balance between liberty and virtue have taken a backseat to other, more pressing conflicts. As times have changed, elements of th...

Datum: 21.07.2011 20:00 • Größe: 87.9 MB

456) The Ethics of Voting

(http://www.amazon.com/Ethics-Voting-Jason-Brennan/dp/0691144818/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1309529031&sr=8-1/?tag=catoinstitute-20)Nothing is more integral to democracy than voting. Most people believe that every citizen has the civic duty or moral obligation to vote, that any sincere vote is...

Datum: 21.07.2011 20:00 • Größe: 77.2 MB

455) A Better Congress: Change the Rules, Change the Results

(http://www.amazon.com/Better-Congress-Proposal-Citizens-Legislative/dp/1587332337/?tag=catoinstitute-20) Public trust in Congress has declined over the past few years. Generally, Congress is trusted less than the other two branches of government, a disturbing thought concerning the institution tha...

Datum: 20.07.2011 20:00 • Größe: 71 MB

454) Immigration Reform, Yes; E-Verify, No

Once immigration reform aligns the law with the needs of the American economy and people, the pressures that have driven some to pursue greater "internal enforcement" will be relieved. Congress should not dragoon employers further into immigration-law enforcement by making the "E-Verify" government ...

Datum: 20.07.2011 16:00 • Größe: 29.4 MB

453) Helping Students or Ballooning College Profits: What's Federal Money Doing?

President Obama wants the United States to lead the world in college attainment by 2020. Arguably the biggest obstacle standing in the way of that is rampant tuition inflation, which pushes prices to increasingly astronomical heights. Ironically, as a new Cato analysis (http://www.cato.org/pub_displ...

Datum: 19.07.2011 20:00 • Größe: 82.7 MB

452) The No-Tax-Hike Pledge: Does It Help or Hurt the Fight for Smaller Government?

With record levels of government spending and rising amounts of red ink, there is considerable debate about whether a "grand compromise" budget deal is needed to restore fiscal sanity in Washington. Proponents of this approach specifically say that the no-tax-hike pledge is hindering a budget agreem...

Datum: 18.07.2011 16:00 • Größe: 19.9 MB

451) Transportation Reauthorization: The Privatization Option

As Congress considers its options for surface transportation, the big question is, How will we pay for all of our transportation needs? One answer is transportation privatization. Shirley Ybarra, former secretary of transportation for the Commonwealth of Virginia, will describe actual examples of pu...

Datum: 14.07.2011 20:00 • Größe: 55.4 MB

450) The Declaration of Independents: How Libertarian Politics Can Fix What's Wrong w

(http://www.amazon.com/Declaration-Independents-Libertarian-Politics-America/dp/1586489380/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1308259335&sr=8-1/?tag=catoinstitute-20)Reason editors Nick Gillespie and Matt Welch introduce their new book with a multimedia presentation in the Hayek Auditorium. "In a worl...

Datum: 30.06.2011 20:00 • Größe: 61.3 MB

449) Turning the Page in Afghanistan

After nearly 10 years of war in Afghanistan and with Osama bin Laden at the bottom of the ocean, can the United States fundamentally scale back its objectives in that country? Joshua Rovner, coauthor of a new Cato study, says yes. He argues for significantly changing America's mission in ways that w...

Datum: 29.06.2011 20:00 • Größe: 80.4 MB

448) Dominoes on the Durand Line?Overcoming Strategic Myths in Afghanistan and Pakist

Joshua Rovner and Austin Long

Datum: 29.06.2011 20:00 • Größe: 592.3 KB

447) Panel 1: An Ounce of Prevention: Limiting the Scope for Collateral Damage in the

If the Obama administration and Congress are truly concerned about U.S. manufacturing competitiveness and increasing export opportunities, then antidumping policy must be reformed. Imports of raw materials, intermediate goods and capital equipment — products consumed by U.S. producers — ...

Datum: 28.06.2011 19:00 • Größe: 75.7 MB

446) Cash for Care?

Can Medicare vouchers, such as the proposal authored by House Budget Committee chairman Paul Ryan (R-WI) that has passed the House of Representatives, restrain Medicare spending without harming the health of enrollees? Health economist Lorens Helmchen suggests that cash payments to patients, either ...

Datum: 27.06.2011 20:00 • Größe: 69 MB

445) Uncle Sam and Big Business: Enemies or Allies? And What Does that Mean for Young

Some politicians claim to be both "pro-business" and "pro-market" — as if they're the same thing. Yet today's largest corporations have mastered the art of working with government officials at every level to stifle market competition. They reap billions of dollars through a complex web of high...

Datum: 24.06.2011 20:00 • Größe: 72.5 MB

444) Getting "No Child Left Behind" Right

The No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB) is long overdue for reauthorization, and pressure is mounting to get it done before NCLB labels the vast majority of our schools as failures. But there's much that must happen to fix NCLB, and to get federal-education policy overall working as it should. Neal McCl...

Datum: 20.06.2011 16:00 • Größe: 25.3 MB

443) Resolved: America Should Legalize Drugs

Forty years ago this month, President Richard Nixon launched a "war against drugs." It has turned out to be America's longest war; and yet the policy is not seriously debated by members of Congress. More than $1 trillion has been spent on the war effort—police, prosecutors, and prisons—...

Datum: 15.06.2011 20:00 • Größe: 72.6 MB

442) Why Leaders Lie: The Truth about Lying in International Politics

(http://www.amazon.com/Why-Leaders-Lie-International-Politics/dp/0199758735/?tag=catoinstitute-20)How frequent is lying in international politics? Which types of leaders lie the most, and to whom do leaders most frequently lie: other states, or their own people? Is all deception lying, or should we ...

Datum: 09.06.2011 20:00 • Größe: 88.6 MB

441) Which States Are Most Free?

In the new edition of their study "Freedom in the 50 States: An Index of Personal and Economic Freedom," published by the Mercatus Center at George Mason University, political scientists Jason Sorens and William Ruger comprehensively rank the American states on their public policies that affect indi...

Datum: 08.06.2011 20:00 • Größe: 83.4 MB

440) The Korea, Colombia, and Panama FTAs: Promoting Growth and Jobs through Trade

After years of delays, Congress will likely soon consider free-trade agreements (FTAs) with South Korea, Colombia, and Panama. Critics say the agreements expose U.S. workers to unfair competition, while supporters say the agreements will expand trade, level the playing field, and create well-paying ...

Datum: 08.06.2011 16:30 • Größe: 31.7 MB

439) Competition and Innovation

Michele Boldrin, Juan Correa, David Levine, Carmine Ornaghi, Andy Atkeson, Sam Kortum, Mark Ramseyer, Eric Rasmusen, Frank Buckley, Efraim Benmelech, Rafael Di Tella, Juan Dubra, Glenn Loury, Justin McCrary, Lee Ohanian, Kyle Herkenhoff, Robert Hall, John Leahy

Datum: 02.06.2011 17:30 • Größe: 81.6 MB

438) India Twenty Years after Reform

Twenty years ago this summer, India introduced major economic reforms that have led to sustained high growth, reductions in mass poverty, and an ongoing transformation of Indian society. Swaminathan Aiyar will describe the key reforms and why they were politically possible. Surjit Bhalla, one of the...

Datum: 01.06.2011 20:00 • Größe: 82.6 MB

437) Selfish Reasons to Have More Kids

(http://www.amazon.com/dp/046501867X/?tag=catoinstitute-20)Bryan Caplan tells us in his new book, Selfish Reasons to Have More Kids, that parents today are overinvesting in each child they have, and consequently deciding to have fewer children. He argues that twin and adoption studies show nature is...

Datum: 25.05.2011 20:00 • Größe: 81.1 MB

436) Limiting Government: What Washington Can Learn from Minnesota

In the face of a looming fiscal catastrophe, our federal government must make significant and immediate spending cuts. Former Minnesota Governor Tim Pawlenty will talk about his work to limit the size of Minnesota's government — efforts that earned him an "A" on Cato's "Fiscal Policy Report Ca...

Datum: 25.05.2011 19:00 • Größe: 38.3 MB

435) The Case for Marriage Equality: Perry v. Schwarzenegger

The 1967 Supreme Court case Loving v. Virginia ended state bans on interracial marriage in the 16 states that still had such laws. Now, 44 years after Loving, the courts are once again grappling with denial of equal marriage rights — this time to gay couples. Two California couples have filed ...

Datum: 18.05.2011 16:00 • Größe: 83.7 MB

434) Peddling Protectionism: Smoot-Hawley and the Great Depression

(http://www.amazon.com/Peddling-Protectionism-Smoot-Hawley-Great-Depression/dp/069115032X/?tag=catoinstitute-20)More than 80 years after its passage, the Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act of 1930 still resonates in today's debate over trade policy. Advocates of trade blame the law for deepening the Great Depr...

Datum: 17.05.2011 20:00 • Größe: 70.7 MB

433) Leashing the Surveillance State: How to Renew and Reform Patriot Act Surveillanc

In the panicked aftermath of the September 11 attacks, Congress moved with dizzying haste to enact the USA Patriot Act, a sprawling overhaul of American intelligence law. Nearly a decade later, three important counter-terror surveillance powers are up for renewal, giving lawmakers an opportunity to ...

Datum: 16.05.2011 16:00 • Größe: 41.3 MB

432) Why Are We at War in Libya?

President Obama offers various justifications for his decision to intervene in Libya's civil war. He argues that humanitarianism required that we act, that the credibility of the United States and United Nations in standing up to dictators was on the line,and that Qaddafi had forfeited his legitimac...

Datum: 13.05.2011 16:00 • Größe: 55.5 MB

431) America's Allies and War: Kosovo, Afghanistan, and Iraq

(http://www.amazon.com/Americas-Allies-War-Kosovo-Afghanistan/dp/0230614825/?tag=catoinstitute-20)The United States pledges to defend our NATO allies under Article V of the North Atlantic Treaty. Why, and in what ways, do the allies reciprocate? Jason Davidson will present evidence from his unique a...

Datum: 10.05.2011 20:00 • Größe: 67.3 MB

430) The Moral Implications of Deficits, Debt, and the Budget Battles Ahead

With deficits, debt, and budget battles dominating our politics for the foreseeable future, and much of the debate centering on what to do about the entitlements that are consuming ever-greater portions of the federal budget, more questions are arising about the social contract, the nation's first p...

Datum: 09.05.2011 20:00 • Größe: 68.4 MB

429) The Arab Awakening and Its Implications

The mass uprising that began in Tunisia has since spread throughout the Arab world, serving as the catalyst to Hosni Mubarak's downfall in Egypt and Muammar el-Qaddafi's crackdown and subsequent United Nations intervention in Libya. Given these momentous events, will more Arab governments respond to...

Datum: 05.05.2011 20:00 • Größe: 79.7 MB

428) Climate Coup: Global Warming's Invasion of Our Government and Our Lives

(http://www.cato.org/store/books/climate-coup-global-warming-s-invasion-our-government-our-lives)Despite consistent evidence that climate change does not portend an apocalyptic future, global-warming alarmism is invading nearly every aspect of our lives. The newly published book Climate Coup is an a...

Datum: 04.05.2011 20:00 • Größe: 65 MB

427) Rehabilitating Lochner: Defending Individual Rights against Progressive Reform

(http://www.cato.org/store/books/rehabilitating-lochner-defending-individual-rights-against-progressive-reform)No Supreme Court decision concerning economic liberty has been more emblematic of the alleged errors of the "old," pre-New Deal Court than Lochner v. New York, decided in 1905. Upholding co...

Datum: 02.05.2011 20:00 • Größe: 81.1 MB

426) The Future of Chinese Land Rights

China now has one of the largest rural-urban income gaps in the world, with the vast majority of its 120 million extreme poor living in the countryside. A fundamental cause of enduring rural poverty is that many Chinese farmers do not have secure property rights to land. Roy Prosterman and Keliang Z...

Datum: 29.04.2011 16:00 • Größe: 75.3 MB

425) The Constitution of Liberty: The Definitive Edition

Bruce Caldwell, Richard Epstein, George Soros, Ronald Hamowy

Datum: 28.04.2011 20:00 • Größe: 77.7 MB

424) The False Promise of Green Energy

(http://www.cato.org/store/books/false-promise-green-energy)Renewable energies such as wind, solar, and biomass, along with energy-efficiency initiatives like building retrofits — so-called "green energy" — are all the political rage in America today. Proponents contend that we are in th...

Datum: 21.04.2011 20:00 • Größe: 81.5 MB

423) Civil Resistance and Revolution in the Arab World

What explains the swift collapse of what were considered some of the most stable regimes in the Arab world? Drawing on scholarship and his Center's experience in supporting pro-democracy activists in Egypt and around the world, Peter Ackerman will describe factors — such as strategy and carefu...

Datum: 18.04.2011 16:00 • Größe: 76.9 MB

422) America's Transportation Future

With Congress poised to pass a surface transportation reauthorization bill in 2011, America's transportation system is at a crossroads. Should we emphasize high-cost forms of transportation, such as light rail and high-speed rail, whose main goal is to get a few people out of their cars? Or should w...

Datum: 15.04.2011 16:00 • Größe: 68.3 MB

421) The Economic Impact of Government Spending - Part 1

Spending by the federal government has doubled in the past 10 years, rising from $1.86 trillion to $3.82 trillion. This has caused the burden of federal spending to climb from 18 percent of GDP to 25 percent of GDP. Because of entitlement programs and demographic changes, however, federal spending c...

Datum: 07.04.2011 18:00 • Größe: 77.6 MB

420) The War in Libya: What Is the Role of Congress?

President Obama's intervention in the Libyan civil war raises profound constitutional questions. Article I, Section 8 of the Constitution grants the power to "declare War" to Congress. What does "declare War" mean in the context of the Libyan intervention? James Madison noted that the president had ...

Datum: 05.04.2011 16:00 • Größe: 47.4 MB

419) Beyond Exports: A Better Case for Free Trade

The 112th Congress begins its term amid renewed optimism about prospects for U.S. trade liberalization. But how long will this window of opportunity remain ajar? Despite trade's benefits, Americans remain skeptical because of the tendency of politicians and media charlatans to blame foreigners for d...

Datum: 24.03.2011 16:00 • Größe: 58.3 MB

418) A Government Thumb on the Election Scale?

On June 8, 2010, at the height of campaign season, the U.S. Supreme Court took the extraordinary step of stopping Arizona's Clean Elections system from paying campaign subsidies to publicly-financed candidates when their privately-financed opponents and independent expenditure committees raised and ...

Datum: 22.03.2011 20:00 • Größe: 61.2 MB

417) The New Health Care Law: What a Difference a Year Makes - Keynote Address

When President Obama signed the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act into law on March 23, 2010, few would have predicted what happened in the following year. Opposition to the law has led to Republican gains in Congress, a House vote to repeal it, and two federal courts striking down part or ...

Datum: 21.03.2011 17:00 • Größe: 37 MB

416) Neoconservatism: An Obituary for an Idea

(http://www.amazon.com/Neoconservatism-Obituary-C-Bradley-Thompson/dp/1594518319/?tag=catoinstitute-20) (http://www.amazon.com/Neoconservatism-Obituary-C-Bradley-Thompson/dp/1594518319/?tag=catoinstitute-20)C. Bradley Thompson, professor of political science and executive director of the Clemson Ins...

Datum: 16.03.2011 16:00 • Größe: 74.2 MB

415) Robust Political Economy: Classical Liberalism and the Future of Public Policy

(http://www.amazon.com/Robust-Political-Economy-Classical-Liberalism/dp/1845426215/?tag=catoinstitute-20) (http://www.amazon.com/Robust-Political-Economy-Classical-Liberalism/dp/1845426215/?tag=catoinstitute-20)This new book offers a comprehensive defense of classical liberalism against contemporary...

Datum: 08.03.2011 21:00 • Größe: 53 MB

414) Schools for Misrule: Legal Academia and an Overlawyered America

(http://www.amazon.com/dp/1594032335/?tag=catoinstitute-20) (http://www.amazon.com/dp/1594032335/?tag=catoinstitute-20)The ideas that emanate from the nation's law schools in one generation often wind up shaping law and national policy in the next. But as Cato senior fellow Walter Olson argues in th...

Datum: 08.03.2011 15:45 • Größe: 82 MB

413) Reforming America's Health Care System: The Flawed Vision of ObamaCare

(http://www.amazon.com/Reforming-Americas-Health-Care-System/dp/0817912746/?tag=catoinstitute-20) (http://www.amazon.com/Reforming-Americas-Health-Care-System/dp/0817912746/?tag=catoinstitute-20)In March 2010, Congress passed a sweeping overhaul of America's health care sector. That law, commonly kn...

Datum: 02.03.2011 21:00 • Größe: 86.1 MB

412) The Internet and Social Media: Tools of Freedom or Tools of Oppression?

Freedom movements around the world are using Twitter and Facebook to express dissent and to organize, particularly in the Middle East. It might be fair to say that the Internet is becoming the platform for political liberation. But the "just add Internet" thesis has its skeptics, who argue that, in ...

Datum: 25.02.2011 20:30 • Größe: 85.8 MB

411) Is Dodd-Frank Constitutional?

The Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act of 2010 was intended to "promote the financial stability of the United States by improving accountability and transparency in the financial system, to end 'too big to fail,' to protect the American taxpayer by ending bailouts, to protect ...

Datum: 15.02.2011 17:00 • Größe: 83.6 MB

410) Restoring Limited Constitutional Government Starts with Congress

With the 112th Congress now in session, the Constitution is finding new respect on Capitol Hill. It started during the campaign, thanks to pressure from the Tea Party. It was reflected when members in the House read the Constitution aloud on their first full day in session. And it should continue as...

Datum: 10.02.2011 17:00 • Größe: 48.8 MB

409) Inflated: How Money and Debt Built the American Dream

(http://www.amazon.com/Inflated-Money-Built-American-Dream/dp/0470875143/?tag=catoinstitute-20) (http://www.amazon.com/Inflated-Money-Built-American-Dream/dp/0470875143/?tag=catoinstitute-20)Americans view themselves as reasonably prudent and sober people when it comes to matters of money. Yet as a ...

Datum: 08.02.2011 17:00 • Größe: 55.6 MB

408) Debating Social Welfare Policy in the 21st Century: What's the Best Way Forward?

Datum: 28.01.2011 20:30 • Größe: 80.8 MB

407) Cloning "Superman": What Other Countries Already Know about Scaling Up Good Scho

Everyone agrees that we have too few good schools and too many lousy ones. What's missing is a mechanism for replicating what works. Competitive for-profit markets have served that function in other fields, from cell phones to coffee shops. Can the same thing work in education? To find out, we've...

Datum: 28.01.2011 17:00 • Größe: 83.7 MB

406) Location-Tracking Technology and Privacy

As location-sensitive cell phones, GPS devices, and digital assistants become more integral to daily living, law enforcement and intelligence agencies are rushing to exploit their potential. Records of the geolocation data these devices generate can provide the kind of detailed portrait of a person'...

Datum: 26.01.2011 17:00 • Größe: 71.1 MB

405) The Future of the Right to Keep and Bear Arms

In 2008, for the first time in our history, the Supreme Court invoked the Second Amendment to strike down a gun-control law, holding that the federal government may not prohibit law-abiding citizens from keeping a handgun in the home for self defense. In 2010, the Court held that state and local gov...

Datum: 20.01.2011 17:00 • Größe: 84.7 MB

404) The 112th Congress and Military Spending

The 112th Congress includes many new members elected on a promise to close the nation's unsustainable deficits. Despite the efforts of some in Washington to exempt the Pentagon's budget from scrutiny, the president's deficit reduction commission and a nongovernmental panel chaired by former senator ...

Datum: 19.01.2011 17:00 • Größe: 59.2 MB

403) Liberty of Contract: Rediscovering a Lost Constitutional Right

(http://www.cato.org/store/books/liberty-contract-rediscovering-lost-constitutional-right-hardcover) (http://www.cato.org/store/books/liberty-contract-rediscovering-lost-constitutional-right-hardcover)Under common law, private property and liberty of contract were long protected by the courts —...

Datum: 18.01.2011 17:00 • Größe: 67.5 MB

402) The Military-Industrial Complex at 50: Assessing the Meaning and Impact of Eisen

On January 17, 1961, President Dwight David Eisenhower delivered one of the most famous speeches of his storied career. In a televised farewell address to the American people, Eisenhower warned of the burdens imposed by a large, and seemingly permanent, military establishment, something that the nat...

Datum: 13.01.2011 14:00 • Größe: 90.8 MB

401) Adam Smith: An Enlightened Life

(http://www.amazon.com/Adam-Smith-Enlightened-Nicholas-Phillipson/dp/0713993960/?tag=catoinstitute-20) (http://www.amazon.com/Adam-Smith-Enlightened-Nicholas-Phillipson/dp/0713993960/?tag=catoinstitute-20) Adam Smith's The Wealth of Nations has an influence rivaled only by that other famous p...

Datum: 12.01.2011 17:00 • Größe: 77.8 MB

400) Fiscal Undertow: How Public Schools Are Drowning State and Local Budgets, and Wh

Health care is the budget buster at the federal level, but K-12 education is what's poised to bankrupt state and local governments. Spending on public education eats up around half of the general budget in most states, and it's by far the priciest single item. For every dollar raised by state and lo...

Datum: 11.01.2011 17:00 • Größe: 78.1 MB

399) Obama's Fiscal Commission and the GOP Budget Agenda

The president's fiscal commission has unveiled serious proposals to cut programs, restrain the growth of spending, and reduce the federal government's huge budget deficit. The commission's report provides numerous fiscal policy ideas for the large class of new Republican members who are eager to fix...

Datum: 16.12.2010 17:00 • Größe: 55 MB

398) The U.S. Generalized System of Preferences: Helping the Poor, But at What Price?

In her new trade policy analysis, "The U.S. Generalized System of Preferences: Helping the Poor, But at What Price? (http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=12555)," Sallie James argues that the expiration of the GSP at the end of this year is an ideal time to consider the costs of unilateral pre...

Datum: 14.12.2010 17:00 • Größe: 70.9 MB

397) Spending Cuts or Devaluation? Resolving the Financial Crisis in the Baltic Count

In his new book, The Last Shall Be the First, Anders Aslund argues that the governments of the Baltic countries were right to respond to the 2008 financial crisis by slashing spending, while maintaining a fully fixed exchange rate between their domestic currencies and the euro. According to Aslund, ...

Datum: 08.12.2010 21:00 • Größe: 50.8 MB

396) Banking and Insurance in the 112th Congress

Two panels will provide a preview of what the new Congress might hold for banking and insurance legislation. Will we see freer financial markets or more regulation? Can Dodd-Frank be repealed? What is likely to happen to Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac? These and other questions will be addressed.

Datum: 07.12.2010 20:00 • Größe: 68.3 MB

395) Profiting from Ivory Towers?

Investigating, castigating, and regulating for-profit colleges is all the rage in higher education these days. But how different are the business practices of these institutions from those of their nonprofit counterparts? Please join our panelists for a spirited discussion of the role that profits p...

Datum: 30.11.2010 21:00 • Größe: 49.3 MB

394) Deficits and Defense

Concern over the nation's looming deficit has prompted a renewed focus on the need for spending cuts. Some in Washington would shield the Pentagon's budget from scrutiny, but several newly elected members of Congress who have put deficit reduction at the top of their agenda have said that military s...

Datum: 19.11.2010 17:00 • Größe: 75.9 MB

393) 28th Annual Monetary Conference: Keynote Address

Cato's 28th Annual Monetary Conference — Asset Bubbles and Monetary Policy — will address a key issue underlying the 2008 financial crisis: Did the Federal Reserve contribute to the crisis by keeping interest rates too low for too long? Would a more restrictive monetary policy have preve...

Datum: 18.11.2010 14:00 • Größe: 26.5 MB

392) 28th Annual Monetary Conference

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391) 28th Annual Monetary Conference

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390) 28th Annual Monetary Conference

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389) 28th Annual Monetary Conference

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388) 28th Annual Monetary Conference

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387) 28th Annual Monetary Conference

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386) Is Taxpayer Financing of Campaigns Constitutional?

Following the landmark decision in Citizens United, advocates for more campaign finance regulation have turned to enacting taxpayer financing of campaigns. They hope to build on state programs of taxpayer financing, such as the one in Arizona. But recent Supreme Court decisions call into question th...

Datum: 17.11.2010 17:00 • Größe: 49.6 MB

385) Alchemists of Loss: How Modern Finance and Government Intervention Crashed the F

(http://www.amazon.com/Alchemists-Loss-government-intervention-financial/dp/0470689153/?tag=catoinstitute-20) (http://www.amazon.com/Alchemists-Loss-government-intervention-financial/dp/0470689153/?tag=catoinstitute-20)Disasters are generally caused by bad ideas. There was the theory that government...

Datum: 16.11.2010 17:00 • Größe: 36.8 MB

384) The Future of Public Transit: What Is the Role of the Federal Government?

America's public transit industry faces multiple challenges. The Federal Transit Administration says it suffers from $78 billion worth of deferred maintenance. The recession has forced almost every transit agency in the country to raise fares or cut back service or both. Unfunded pension obligations...

Datum: 10.11.2010 17:00 • Größe: 52.5 MB

383) Don't Vote It Just Encourages the Bastards

(http://www.amazon.com/dp/0802119603/?tag=catoinstitute-20) (http://www.amazon.com/dp/0802119603/?tag=catoinstitute-20)He has reported on the inner workings of the U.S. government, explained the global economy, and crawled under the hood of the American automobile industry's downfall. Now, in his la...

Datum: 03.11.2010 22:00 • Größe: 31.9 MB

382) The Future of Our America

Datum: 01.11.2010 20:00 • Größe: 30.8 MB

381) Birthright Citizenship and the Battle over Illegal Immigration

Seemingly out of nowhere a debate has erupted over the Fourteenth Amendment and the children of illegal immigrants. Should a constitutional amendment be enacted to end the practice whereby the children of illegal immigrants born on American soil are granted U.S. citizenship? What are the policy and ...

Datum: 25.10.2010 16:30 • Größe: 22.5 MB

380) Robert A. Heinlein: In Dialogue with His Century

(http://www.amazon.com/dp/0765319608/?tag=catoinstitute-20) (http://www.amazon.com/dp/0765319608/?tag=catoinstitute-20)Robert A. Heinlein is regarded by many as the greatest science fiction writer of the 20th century. He is the author of more than 30 novels, including Starship Troopers, Stranger in ...

Datum: 21.10.2010 16:00 • Größe: 37.8 MB

379) James Madison Rules America: The Constitutional Origins of Congressional Partisa

(http://www.amazon.com/dp/0742599655/tag=catoinstitute-20) (http://www.amazon.com/dp/0742599655/tag=catoinstitute-20)Critics argue that Congress has become the "broken branch," marked by extreme partisanship and few achievements. They prescribe nostrums ranging from campaign finance regulation to re...

Datum: 14.10.2010 16:00 • Größe: 47.4 MB

378) Congress Should Account for Excess Burden of Taxation

Nearly all taxes impose hidden costs by choking off economic activity. In a soon-to-be-released Cato Institute study, Duke University professor Christopher J. Conover estimates how much economic activity the recently enacted health care law — the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act R...

Datum: 13.10.2010 14:00 • Größe: 34.4 MB

377) Power Grab: European Integration in the Post-Democratic Age

The Lisbon Treaty of 2009 massively increased the powers of Brussels and gave the European Union its own resident and foreign service. Supporters of Lisbon claim that it will make the EU more efficient and effective. Critics say that the treaty, which was adopted in spite of its rejection in several...

Datum: 08.10.2010 16:00 • Größe: 45.1 MB

376) You Know I'm Right: More Prosperity, Less Government

(http://www.amazon.com/dp/1439193223/?tag=catoinstitute-20) (http://www.amazon.com/dp/1439193223/?tag=catoinstitute-20) To CNBC business reporter Michelle Caruso-Cabrera, both Republicans and Democrats are responsible for the government's massive spending increases and excessive social interference...

Datum: 07.10.2010 16:00 • Größe: 28.6 MB

375) Why Africa Is Poor and What Africans Can Do about It

Economic growth does not require a secret formula. While countries from Asia to Latin America have emerged from poverty, Africa has failed to realize its potential in the 50 years since independence. Greg Mills, the former director of the South African Institute of International Affairs and one of S...

Datum: 06.10.2010 16:00 • Größe: 47.9 MB

374) Rethinking Biofuels Policy

As Congress debates extending biofuel tax credits and the ethanol import tariff, questions are being raised about the broader policy mix that includes subsidies, tariffs, mandates, and sustainability standards. As a recent CBO report revealed, some of these policies — the Volumetric Ethanol E...

Datum: 30.09.2010 16:00 • Größe: 16.5 MB

373) The New Road to Serfdom: A Letter of Warning to America

(http://www.amazon.com/dp/0061956937/?tag=catoinstitute-20) (http://www.amazon.com/dp/0061956937/?tag=catoinstitute-20) In March 2009 British conservative Daniel Hannan became a celebrity overnight when he assailed Prime Minister Gordon Brown on the floor of the European Parliament. The YouTube...

Datum: 29.09.2010 21:00 • Größe: 33.6 MB

372) The Case for Business in Developing Economies

(http://www.amazon.com/dp/0143026526/?tag=catoinstitute-20) (http://www.amazon.com/dp/0143026526/?tag=catoinstitute-20)Business is regularly portrayed in public discourse as morally deficient and prone to despoil the environment, undermine democracy, and stunt development. Ann Bernstein will explain...

Datum: 28.09.2010 16:00 • Größe: 45.3 MB

371) Recording the Police: Is Citizen Journalism against the Law?

Should it be illegal to record the police? Several high-profile cases of police brutality have been exposed by citizens who recorded police actions with cell phones. Yet some state wiretapping laws, written before the age of ubiquitous recording devices, prohibit recording these events and then furt...

Datum: 22.09.2010 16:00 • Größe: 42.2 MB

370) The Right to Earn a Living

(http://www.cato.org/store/index.asp?fa=ProductDetails&method=&pid=1441465) (http://www.cato.org/store/index.asp?fa=ProductDetails&method=&pid=1441465) The right to earn a living and enjoy the fruits of one's labor is a fundamental human right, guaranteed by the Constitution. ...

Datum: 20.09.2010 16:00 • Größe: 48.6 MB

369) The Upcoming Supreme Court Term and the Future of Economic Liberty

For many people, owning a business is the very definition of the American dream. But in today's America, that dream is made increasingly difficult by laws and regulations that interfere with entrepreneurs and their right to earn a living providing valuable goods and services through voluntary exchan...

Datum: 17.09.2010 16:00 • Größe: 27.3 MB

368) Cato Institute 9th Annual Constitution Day Conference - Religion, Offensive Vide

Datum: 16.09.2010 14:45 • Größe: 51.6 MB

367) Give Us Liberty: A Tea Party Manifesto

(http://www.amazon.com/dp/0062015877/?tag=catoinstitute-20) (http://www.amazon.com/dp/0062015877/?tag=catoinstitute-20) Nothing has so changed and energized American politics in recent years as has the grassroots Tea Party movement that sprang up in 2009. In rallies, marches, and town-hall meetin...

Datum: 14.09.2010 16:00 • Größe: 39.5 MB

366) The Service Revolution in South Asia

(http://www.amazon.com/dp/0198065116/?tag=catoinstitute-20) (http://www.amazon.com/dp/0198065116/?tag=catoinstitute-20)South Asia, especially India, has attracted global attention because of its success in service exports. Challenging the "iron law" of development that industrialization is the only ...

Datum: 08.09.2010 16:00 • Größe: 46.3 MB

365) Empire for Liberty: A History of American Imperialism from Benjamin Franklin to

(http://www.amazon.com/dp/069112762X/?tag=catoinstitute-20) (http://www.amazon.com/dp/069112762X/?tag=catoinstitute-20) Did America set out to become an empire? And if so, how has it reconciled its imperialism with the idea of liberty so forcefully expressed in the Declaration of Independence? In h...

Datum: 01.09.2010 16:00 • Größe: 51.3 MB

364) The Real Impact of the New Health Care Law

Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi famously said that we would have to pass health care reform to find out what's in it. Well, the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act has been law for four months, and we are beginning to learn more about what it will mean for the federal budget, insurance prem...

Datum: 04.08.2010 16:00 • Größe: 22.5 MB

363) Are Liberty and Equality Compatible?

(http://www.amazon.com/dp/0521883822/?tag=catoinstitute-20) (http://www.amazon.com/dp/0521883822/?tag=catoinstitute-20) Are the political ideals of liberty and equality compatible? This question is of central and continuing importance in political philosophy, moral philosophy, and welfare economi...

Datum: 03.08.2010 16:00 • Größe: 48.1 MB

362) Strategic Counterterrorism: The Signals We Send

Measured in lives and dollars, government reactions to terrorism often impose greater costs on the societies attacked than the terror attacks themselves. Indeed, what makes a terrorist attack "successful" is its ability to goad victim states into wasting their own resources, taking actions that driv...

Datum: 29.07.2010 16:00 • Größe: 20.2 MB

361) Union Influence on Public Policy

Although private sector unions have been in decline for decades, public sector unions have been on the rise. Both private and public unions have undue political influence and use that power to seek privileges at the expense of consumers and taxpayers. Are unions good for America?

Datum: 28.07.2010 16:00 • Größe: 51.6 MB

360) The Implications of the U.S.-India Nuclear Agreement

On October 1, 2008, Congress approved an agreement facilitating civilian nuclear cooperation between the United States and India. Proponents of the agreement underscored its strategic benefits, hinting that an alliance of the world's largest democracies would effectively check a rising China. Nonpro...

Datum: 22.07.2010 16:30 • Größe: 24 MB

359) The Politics and Law of Immigration

The controversy over America's immigration policies will ratchet up once the new Arizona law, known as SB 1070, goes into effect on July 29. Can that law withstand the legal challenges that are awaiting it? And legality aside, will the Arizona law create more problems than it can resolve? The federa...

Datum: 21.07.2010 16:00 • Größe: 51.4 MB

358) What to Do about North Korea?

Yet another crisis has enveloped the Korean peninsula as the sinking of the South Korean naval vessel Cheonan has triggered a spate of provocative statements and military threats. But American policymakers have virtually no window into decisionmaking in the North. Stephen Linton travels regularly to...

Datum: 14.07.2010 16:00 • Größe: 49.4 MB

357) Is the Electoral College Obsolete?

The Electoral College has been a staple of American presidential elections since the nation's founding, but it may not be for long: a new legislative effort has been gaining momentum in state legislatures and could soon fundamentally change presidential elections as we know them. A California-based ...

Datum: 08.07.2010 16:00 • Größe: 49.2 MB

356) Using Work Visas to Control the Border

Despite a more than four-fold increase in border patrol agents over the past 20 years, concerns about illegal immigration along the southwest border of the United States have persisted. Not since the 1950s and early 1960s has the United States sought to limit illegal entry by combining the use of wo...

Datum: 01.07.2010 16:00 • Größe: 15.9 MB

355) How Will ObamaCare Affect Young Adults?

Starting in 2014, the federal government will require nearly all Americans to obtain health insurance. How will that requirement, and other elements of President Obama's new health care law, affect the incomes, employment opportunities, and health care of young adults?

Datum: 24.06.2010 20:00 • Größe: 51.6 MB

354) Exporting the Bomb: Technology Transfer and the Spread of Nuclear Weapons

(http://www.amazon.com/dp/0801476402/?tag=catoinstitute-20) (http://www.amazon.com/dp/0801476402/?tag=catoinstitute-20)For decades, scholars have attempted to identify the factors that drive nuclear proliferation. Nearly all of this research has focused on the demand side of the equation: Why do cou...

Datum: 22.06.2010 16:00 • Größe: 50.6 MB

353) The Military's Role in Counterterrorism

Military force is a powerful tool for good or ill, and it can prove instrumental in combating terrorism. The potential effect on terrorist capabilities can be immediate and unqualified, as when a strike kills or otherwise disables a prominent terrorist leader. Military strikes — or the threat ...

Datum: 18.06.2010 16:00 • Größe: 19.4 MB

352) More Guns, Less Crime: Understanding Crime and Gun Control Laws

(http://www.amazon.com/dp/0226493660/?tag=catoinstitute-20) (http://www.amazon.com/dp/0226493660/?tag=catoinstitute-20) On its initial publication in 1998, John R. Lott's More Guns, Less Crime (http://www.amazon.com/dp/0226493660/?tag=catoinstitute-20) drew both lavish praise and heated criticism. ...

Datum: 17.06.2010 16:00 • Größe: 59.6 MB

351) Fault Lines: How Hidden Fractures Still Threaten the World Economy

(http://www.amazon.com/dp/0691146837/?tag=catoinstitute-20) (http://www.amazon.com/dp/0691146837/?tag=catoinstitute-20) Raghuram Rajan was one of the few economists who warned of the global financial crisis before it hit. In Fault Lines (http://www.amazon.com/dp/0691146837/?tag=catoinstitute-...

Datum: 16.06.2010 16:00 • Größe: 53.4 MB

350) The New Assault on Free Speech

President Obama and many members of Congress sharply criticized the U.S. Supreme Court's recent decision in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission. Senator Charles Schumer and Rep. Chris Van Hollen have introduced a bill, the DISCLOSE Act, to circumvent Citizens United. DISCLOSE proposes ext...

Datum: 15.06.2010 16:30 • Größe: 20.5 MB

349) Sudan after the Elections: Implications for the Future and American Policy Optio

The week of April 11, Sudan held its first open election in 24 years amid widespread legitimacy concerns, an indictment from the International Criminal Court, and a last-minute boycott by leading opposition parties. Although the parties participating have declared they will honor the results, the U...

Datum: 11.06.2010 16:00 • Größe: 49.3 MB

348) Social Security: A Fresh Look at Policy Alternatives

Experts and practitioners of federal budget policies across the political spectrum recognize that America's fiscal trajectory is unsustainable — especially because of the effects of changing demographic and economic forces on the finances of entitlement programs such as Social Security and Med...

Datum: 07.06.2010 16:30 • Größe: 30.5 MB

347) How to Think about Capital Gains Taxation

The 2003 tax cuts reduced the tax rate on long-term capital gains from 20 percent to 15 percent, but this rate will return to the higher level on January 1, 2011. Proponents argue that the higher tax rate will bring additional money into the government coffers and make the tax system fairer. There a...

Datum: 03.06.2010 16:00 • Größe: 12.5 MB

346) National Education Standards: Hopeful Change or Hollow Promise?

With the Common Core State Standards Initiative likely to release the final version of its English and mathematics standards in early June, and states having to decide whether or not to adopt them, a crucial question has been neglected in the public policy debate: Is there good reason to believe tha...

Datum: 02.06.2010 16:00 • Größe: 50.9 MB

345) Social Security: A Fresh Look at Policy Alternatives

(http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0226300331/tag=catoinstitute-20) (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0226300331/tag=catoinstitute-20)There are widespread fears about Social Security's long-term solvency, and it appears quite likely that the Bipartisan Fiscal Commission will recommend Soc...

Datum: 27.05.2010 16:00 • Größe: 49.1 MB

344) Social Security: A Fresh Look at Policy Alternatives

There are widespread fears about Social Security's long-term solvency, and it appears quite likely that the Bipartisan Fiscal Commission will recommend Social Security reforms. But the government projects Social Security's future finances using long-outdated methods that fail to consider key fea...

Datum: 27.05.2010 16:00 • Größe: 49.1 MB

343) Does Homeland Security Work? Evaluating DHS's Efforts to Make Us Safer

Risk management is a mantra in the Department of Homeland Security but little more. Risk management means more than sending grants to areas where the risk of terrorism is greatest. It means honestly assessing danger rather than using worst-case scenarios as a basis for policy. It means creating ways...

Datum: 25.05.2010 16:00 • Größe: 24.8 MB

342) Terrorizing Ourselves: Why U.S. Counterterrorism Policy Is Failing and How to Fi

(http://www.cato.org/store/index.asp?fa=ProductDetails&method=&pid=1441458) (http://www.cato.org/store/index.asp?fa=ProductDetails&method=&pid=1441458) U.S. policymakers too often manipulate and exaggerate the threat of terrorism. The result is a public that believes what terr...

Datum: 24.05.2010 20:00 • Größe: 47.4 MB

341) Updating ECPA: An Electronic Privacy Law for the 21st Century

In 1986, Congress passed the Electronic Communications Privacy Act, a broad framework detailing how law enforcement could conduct surveillance on burgeoning digital communications networks. But the dawn of the Internet as a mass medium, the increasing ubiquity of location-sensitive mobile devices, a...

Datum: 21.05.2010 16:00 • Größe: 28.6 MB

340) The Rational Optimist: How Prosperity Evolves

(http://www.amazon.com/Rational-Optimist-How-Prosperity-Evolves/dp/006145205X/?tag=catoinstitute-20) (http://www.amazon.com/Rational-Optimist-How-Prosperity-Evolves/dp/006145205X/?tag=catoinstitute-20)Our economy is hurting, and many see environmental degradation as a looming threat. Unfor...

Datum: 20.05.2010 16:00 • Größe: 44.7 MB

339) Libertarianism, from A to Z

Libertarian principles seem basic enough — keep government out of boardrooms, bedrooms, and wallets, and let markets work the way they should. But what reasoning justifies those stances, and how can they be elucidated clearly and applied consistently? In Libertarianism, from A to Z, Harvard ec...

Datum: 18.05.2010 16:00 • Größe: 45 MB

338) Libertarianism, from A to Z

(http://www.amazon.com/Libertarianism-Z-Jeffrey-Miron/dp/0465019439/?tag=catoinstitute-20) (http://www.amazon.com/Libertarianism-Z-Jeffrey-Miron/dp/0465019439/?tag=catoinstitute-20) Libertarian principles seem basic enough — keep government out of boardrooms, bedrooms, and wallets, and let ...

Datum: 18.05.2010 16:00 • Größe: 45 MB

337) Europe's Economic Crisis and the Future of the Euro

Unlike other parts of the world that are experiencing clear signs of economic recovery from the global financial crisis, Europe's recovery has been unsteady. Economic turmoil in southern Europe is putting pressure on the euro. The Lisbon Treaty's strategy on improving competitiveness, expiring this ...

Datum: 11.05.2010 20:30 • Größe: 47.2 MB

336) ObamaCare: Historic, but Is It Constitutional?

On March 23, President Barack Obama signed one of the most sweeping pieces of social legislation in American history. The new health care law would require nearly all Americans to purchase health insurance or face fines and possible jail time. The U.S. Constitution grants Congress the power to regul...

Datum: 05.05.2010 16:00 • Größe: 40.8 MB

335) Intellectual Property as Information Policy: The Great Copyright Debate

Modern computing and communications make each person a bigger consumer &mdash and producer &mdash of copyrighted material than ever before. But how well is copyright law working? The constitution authorizes Congress to secure authors' rights to their writings, but even the term "intellect...

Datum: 30.04.2010 20:00 • Größe: 33.8 MB

334) Policing for Profit: The Abuse of Civil Asset Forfeiture

Under state and federal law, police departments can seize and keep property that is suspected of involvement in criminal activity. Unlike criminal asset forfeiture, however, with civil forfeiture, a property owner need not be found guilty of a crime—or even charged—to permanently lose he...

Datum: 28.04.2010 16:00 • Größe: 32.9 MB

333) The Struggle to Limit Government in the Modern Era

(http://www.cato.org/store/index.asp?fa=ProductDetails&method=cats&scid=51&pid=1441457) (http://www.cato.org/store/index.asp?fa=ProductDetails&method=cats&scid=51&pid=1441457)Americans are once again alarmed by the growth of federal spending, taxing, and regul...

Datum: 28.04.2010 16:00 • Größe: 15.6 MB

332) Should Immigration Reform Include a National ID?

The emerging Senate comprehensive immigration reform is said to include a temporary worker program, a "tough but fair" path to legalization, and enhanced border security. These elements, if well designed, would effectively solve the immigration challenge: enhancing homeland security, reducing the nu...

Datum: 23.04.2010 16:00 • Größe: 19.7 MB

331) National Curriculum Standards or Local Control: The Arguments and the Evidence

The No Child Left Behind Act has created perverse incentives for states, encouraging them to adopt low educational standards lest they jeopardize federal funds and risk other punishments. To put an end to states' dumbing down their standards, many people — including President Obama — are...

Datum: 16.04.2010 17:00 • Größe: 15.9 MB

330) When Does Rail Transit Make Sense?

Transit agencies regularly splurge on expensive but little-used rail transit lines, then declare them to be great successes. And for good reason: if they admitted that federally subsidized rail lines were failures and quit running them, they would have to reimburse the feds. How can you know whether...

Datum: 09.04.2010 16:00 • Größe: 27.1 MB

329) Putting Politics above Markets: A Greek Tragedy

The Greek government's debt of more than 120 percent of GDP and its staggering fiscal deficit of 12.7 percent in 2009 has threatened the euro and is creating divisions within the European Union. Takis Michas, one of Greece's leading journalists, will explain how a long tradition of political cliente...

Datum: 08.04.2010 16:00 • Größe: 46.7 MB

328) The Beijing Consensus: How China's Authoritarian Model Will Dominate the Twenty-

(http://www.amazon.ca/Beijing-Consensus-Authoritarian-Dominate-Twenty-First/dp/0465013619/?tag=catoinstitute-20) (http://www.amazon.ca/Beijing-Consensus-Authoritarian-Dominate-Twenty-First/dp/0465013619/?tag=catoinstitute-20) China presents a complex puzzle to the United States. It is simultaneo...

Datum: 06.04.2010 16:00 • Größe: 50.7 MB

327) Are Unions Good for America?

For the first time in American history, unionized government workers outnumber those in the private sector. While some observers lament the relative decline of private-sector unions, others argue that while they increase wages in unionized industries, they also limit employment opportunities, depres...

Datum: 31.03.2010 16:00 • Größe: 22.2 MB

326) Would Universal Coverage Improve Health?

It makes intuitive sense that President Obama's health plan, which would expand health insurance coverage to an estimated 30 million currently uninsured Americans, would improve their health. But is it true? What does the evidence say about the effect between health insurance expansions and health? ...

Datum: 25.03.2010 20:00 • Größe: 45.9 MB

325) 10 Rules for Dealing with Police

If a free society depends upon an informed citizenry exercising oversight of its government, then more people need to know how to handle themselves in a police encounter. Is cooperation always the best course of action? Or are there times to assert the constitutional right to refuse consent to a...

Datum: 24.03.2010 16:00 • Größe: 50.2 MB

324) Health Care Reform: The Way Forward

At this Hill Briefing, we will discuss the policy implications of the likely House action on ObamaCare. What does it all mean for the future of market-oriented health insurance? What reforms should Congress now pursue in the aftermath of this epic health care battle?

Datum: 22.03.2010 16:30 • Größe: 17.7 MB

323) Escalate or Withdraw? Conservatives and the War in Afghanistan

With his latest escalation in December, President Obama has more than doubled the number of U.S. troops in Afghanistan compared with when he took office. Those forces are chiefly concerned not with the original mission of beating al Qaeda through counterterrorism but rather with trying to build a ne...

Datum: 18.03.2010 13:00 • Größe: 40.8 MB

322) Escalate or Withdraw? Conservatives and the War in Afghanistan

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321) Escalate or Withdraw? Conservatives and the War in Afghanistan

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320) A Superpower in What? A Look Into the Nature of Russia's Social Order

Proclaimed an energy superpower, Russia under Vladimir Putin received more than $1 trillion in revenues from oil and gas. The bonanza brought the country's elite Swiss watches, villas on the Cote-d'Azur, and British football clubs. The Russian president has thirteen private residences and is buildin...

Datum: 17.03.2010 20:00 • Größe: 51.9 MB

319) Did a Lack of Consumer Protection Cause the Financial Crisis?

There is likely no issue more contentious in the debate over the causes of the recent financial crisis and the appropriate response other than "consumer protection." The question of whether credit was too cheap or too expensive (or predatory) is at the heart of the differing narratives of the crisis...

Datum: 16.03.2010 16:00 • Größe: 48.9 MB

318) Don't Blame The Shorts: Why Short Sellers Are Always Blamed for Market Crashes a

(http://www.amazon.com/dp/0071636862/?tag=catoinstitute-20) (http://www.amazon.com/dp/0071636862/?tag=catoinstitute-20) In the aftermath of the financial collapse, regulatory agencies such as the Securities and Exchange Commission targeted short sellers as a contributor to the crisis. In Don't Bl...

Datum: 11.03.2010 17:00 • Größe: 39.9 MB

317) The Watchers: The Rise of America's Surveillance State

(http://www.amazon.com/dp/1594202451/?tag=catoinstitute-20) (http://www.amazon.com/dp/1594202451/?tag=catoinstitute-20) Since long before the attacks of September 11, 2001, government officials have been working to devise systems that would "connect the dots" and predict the next national securit...

Datum: 10.03.2010 17:00 • Größe: 47.5 MB

316) McDonald v. Chicago: The Fourteenth Amendment and the Future of Gun Rights

In 2008, the Supreme Court decided the landmark case of District of Columbia v. Heller, striking down D.C.'s draconian ban on handguns and finding, at last, that the Second Amendment protects an individual right to keep and bear arms. On March 2, in McDonald v. City of Chicago, the Court will hear ...

Datum: 03.03.2010 17:00 • Größe: 22 MB

315) McDonald v. Chicago: Will the Right to Keep and Bear Arms Apply to the States?

Datum: 01.03.2010 21:00 • Größe: 50.9 MB

314) The Science of Liberty: Democracy, Reason, and the Laws of Nature

(http://www.amazon.com/dp/0060781505/?tag=catoinstitute-20) (http://www.amazon.com/dp/0060781505/?tag=catoinstitute-20) Award-winning author Timothy Ferris discusses the relationship between science and liberal government, arguing that the fortunes of science and liberty rise and fall together....

Datum: 24.02.2010 17:00 • Größe: 41.3 MB

313) Nuclear Weapons Spending and the Future of the Arsenal

The U.S. nuclear arsenal is enormous and expensive. Few Americans understand just how costly it is, however, because the program is one of the least transparent features of the massive federal budget. The most comprehensive study of nuclear weapons spending concluded that U.S. taxpayers spent at lea...

Datum: 22.02.2010 17:30 • Größe: 18.3 MB

312) Would the Senate Health Care Bill Keep the Poor Poor?

Congressional leaders are weighing their options for moving the Senate-passed health care overhaul through the House. That legislation would have the undesirable effect of discouraging low-wage workers from climbing the economic ladder. A new Cato Institute study (http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php...

Datum: 22.02.2010 17:00 • Größe: 41.3 MB

311) Is There a Place for Gay People in Conservatism and Conservative Politics?

Under the leadership of David Cameron, Britain's Conservative Party has jettisoned much of its former opposition to gay rights. Cameron supported civil unions for gays and appointed a number of openly gay men to his shadow cabinet. Nick Herbert will explain the reasons for those changes and elaborat...

Datum: 17.02.2010 17:00 • Größe: 47.8 MB

310) Greed, Irresponsibility, or Policy Mistakes: What Caused the Recession?

The boom and bust of the housing and financial sectors raise the natural question: what happened? As economists, politicians, and the general public point their fingers or scratch their heads, this panel will look beyond populist bogeymen and currently dominant economic theories to examine the Aust...

Datum: 05.02.2010 17:00 • Größe: 31.9 MB

309) From Poverty to Prosperity: Intangible Assets, Hidden Liabilities and the Lastin

The discipline of economics is not what it used to be. For years, conventional economists told us an incomplete story that leaned on the comfortable precision of mathematical abstraction and ignored the complexity of the real world. What they left out of the story were the positive forces of creativ...

Datum: 04.02.2010 17:00 • Größe: 45.1 MB

308) The Rule of Law in Russia

A growing number of Russian citizens see their legal system as corrupt and politicized. Karinna Moskalenko, Russia's leading human rights lawyer, has defended such well-known opponents of the Russian regime as former world chess champion Garry Kasparov and the assassinated former spy Alexander Litvi...

Datum: 02.02.2010 17:00 • Größe: 25.9 MB

307) Campaign Finance after Citizens United: What Now?

The U.S. Supreme Court's decision in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission sets the stage for a new era in campaign finance regulation. What will this new era bring? Some members of Congress want tax-financed elections, as the Fair Elections Now Act would do. Others argue that changes in la...

Datum: 02.02.2010 17:00 • Größe: 25.8 MB

306) Driverless Cars: The Next Transportation Revolution

Purchase book While transportation planners debate investing in highway capacity or building rail transit and high-speed rail, another alternative may make more sense. As discussed in O'Toole's recently published book Gridlock, new technologies can cost-effectively increase the capacity of exist...

Datum: 21.01.2010 17:00 • Größe: 23.3 MB

305) Gridlock: Why We're Stuck in Traffic and What to Do About It

Purchase bookShould federal transportation policy focus on coercing people out of their cars while spending hundreds of billions of dollars on rail transit and high-speed rail? Or should it aim to relieve traffic congestion in our cities by funding new highways? In his new book, Gridlock, Cato In...

Datum: 20.01.2010 17:00 • Größe: 45 MB

304) Liberating Bone Marrow Donors

Deadly blood diseases kill more than 1,000 Americans every year, many of whom could be saved by finding matching bone marrow donors. The human body regenerates bone marrow—donors are whole again in just a few weeks after donation—so why are so many lives lost for lack of marrow? The ...

Datum: 19.01.2010 17:00 • Größe: 48.6 MB

303) The Obama Administration's Counterterrorism Policy at One Year

The one-year anniversary of the Obama presidency is time for a review of the administration's counterterrorism policies. What are those policies, and how well have they met the challenge of terrorism over the past year? Does the absence of a formal counterterrorism strategy leave the nation exposed?...

Datum: 13.01.2010 14:00 • Größe: 24.8 MB

302) The Obama Administration's Counterterrorism Policy at One Year

Datum: 13.01.2010 14:00 • Größe: 61 MB

301) Obamanomics: How Barack Obama Is Bankrupting You and Enriching His Wall Street F

Purchase book Are Big Business and Big Government enemies? According to journalist and author Tim Carney, that story is a myth. Both Republicans and Democrats bilk taxpayers to benefit their corporate allies and K Street lobbyists, whether the issue is health care reform, climate change, or defen...

Datum: 12.01.2010 17:00 • Größe: 48.6 MB

300) Made on Earth: How Global Economic Integration Renders Trade Policy Obsolete

The proliferation of cross-border investment, disaggregated production processes, and transnational supply chains have blurred the distinctions between "our" producers and "their" producers. And it has amplified the need to reexamine policies that conflate the national interest with producer intere...

Datum: 17.12.2009 17:00 • Größe: 35.6 MB

299) Rethinking Trade Policy

The proliferation of cross-border investment, disaggregated production processes, and transnational supply chains have blurred the distinctions between "our" producers and "their" producers. When the definition of an American car defies consensus or when the largest U.S. steel producer is a majorit...

Datum: 15.12.2009 17:00 • Größe: 46.2 MB

298) Would a Deficit Task Force Fix the Budget or Punish Taxpayers?

The federal spending avalanche just pushed the government's debt over $12 trillion and Congress will soon vote to further raise the legal debt limit. The massive flow of red ink is prompting many legislators to support creation of a bipartisan deficit-reduction task force, which would submit a plan ...

Datum: 15.12.2009 17:00 • Größe: 24.6 MB

297) Latin Americans and the West

Latin America, though poor, is a part of the West. The institutions, pastimes, intellectual history, languages, and belief systems of the vast majority of Latin Americans are of Western origin. Renowned Cuban writer Carlos Alberto Montaner will explain why a better understanding by the region's inha...

Datum: 09.12.2009 17:00 • Größe: 47.2 MB

296) The USA Patriot Act: Renew, Revise, or Repeal?

Congress is presently moving to renew several provisions of the USA Patriot Act that are set to expire on December 31. The Federal Bureau of Investigation has been urging members of Congress to renew the provisions because they provide FBI agents with exceptional powers that can help to uncover terr...

Datum: 03.12.2009 21:00 • Größe: 53.5 MB

295) The Great Debate: Can Smart Growth Cost-Effectively Reduce Greenhouse Gas Emissi

Several recent reports have argued that we must reduce our use of automobiles to meet greenhouse-gas reduction targets, and that smart-growth policies aimed at rebuilding urban areas at higher densities are an effective way of meeting this goal. The Obama administration and leaders of the House Tran...

Datum: 03.12.2009 17:00 • Größe: 45.9 MB

294) Time to End the Travel Embargo on Cuba

Over the past half century, the United States has deployed sanctions and other punitive measures in an unsuccessful attempt to dislodge Fidel Castro's communist government. Now that most Americans — including most Cuban-Americans — favor ending the ban on traveling to Cuba, congressiona...

Datum: 02.12.2009 17:00 • Größe: 24.6 MB

293) Realizing Freedom: Libertarian Theory, History, and Practice

Purchase book For more than 25 years, Tom Palmer has studied the history and theory of liberty and has worked tirelessly to bring liberty to countries around the world. This book ranges from the theory of justice to foreign policy, from the economics of public goods to gay rights in Russia. Palmer ...

Datum: 01.12.2009 17:00 • Größe: 42.2 MB

292) Bending the Productivity Curve: How Would Health Care "Reform" Affect Medical In

New research by the Cato Institute shows that America generates more medical innovations than any other country, and in some cases, more than all other countries combined. Medical innovation may be more important than covering the uninsured or controlling health care spending, inasmuch as a treatmen...

Datum: 20.11.2009 17:00 • Größe: 31.8 MB

291) The 27th Annual Monetary Conference: Restoring Global Financial Stability

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290) The 27th Annual Monetary Conference: Restoring Global Financial Stability

Datum: 19.11.2009 14:00 • Größe: 23 MB

289) The 27th Annual Monetary Conference: Restoring Global Financial Stability

Datum: 19.11.2009 14:00 • Größe: 43.2 MB

288) The 27th Annual Monetary Conference: Restoring Global Financial Stability

Datum: 19.11.2009 14:00 • Größe: 39.9 MB

287) The 27th Annual Monetary Conference: Restoring Global Financial Stability

Datum: 19.11.2009 14:00 • Größe: 32.1 MB

286) The 27th Annual Monetary Conference: Restoring Global Financial Stability

Datum: 19.11.2009 14:00 • Größe: 34.3 MB

285) The 27th Annual Monetary Conference: Restoring Global Financial Stability

Datum: 19.11.2009 14:00 • Größe: 37.9 MB

284) The Role of the Community Reinvestment Act in the Financial Crisis

Few topics related to the recent financial crisis have generated so much heat, yet so little light, than the debate surrounding the role of the Community Reinvestment Act and its impact on mortgage lending standards. While regulators and the community groups strongly defend the act, many economists ...

Datum: 18.11.2009 17:00 • Größe: 58 MB

283) Too Big To Save? How to Fix The U.S. Financial System

Purchase at Amazon Mortgage defaults, together with excessive debt and ineffective regulation, ultimately led to a major financial crisis in the United States. But how exactly did a steep drop in U.S. housing prices result in a severe financial crisis throughout the world? How did actions of the ...

Datum: 12.11.2009 17:30 • Größe: 34.7 MB

282) The Failure of Social Policy in Venezuela

Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez has used the trappings of democracy to consolidate authoritarian rule and obscure violations of due process, civil liberties, and other human rights. Defenders of the regime overlook those abuses, citing the government's extensive programs to help the poor. Yet,...

Datum: 10.11.2009 17:00 • Größe: 43.9 MB

281) Mad about Trade: Why Main Street America Should Embrace Globalization

Purchase book Politicians and pundits can rage against free trade and globalization, but much of what they convey is myth. Mad about Trade is the much-needed antidote to a rising tide of protectionist sentiment in the United States. It details the benefits of free trade and globalization for middle...

Datum: 06.11.2009 17:00 • Größe: 47.4 MB

280) Climate Change, Copenhagen, and Congress

On December 6 signatories of the United Nations' Framework Convention on Climate Change will meet in Copenhagen to produce a successor to the Kyoto Protocol, and President Obama and many members of Congress would like to pass cap-and-trade legislation beforehand. But does such an approach have a fir...

Datum: 05.11.2009 17:00 • Größe: 22.6 MB

279) Money, Greed, and God: Why Capitalism Is the Solution and Not the Problem

Purchase at Amazon The fall of communism conclusively demonstrated that capitalism is the better economic system. Free markets are unsurpassed in their ability to provide material bounty, but in the aftermath of the economic crisis some ask, are they moral? Even Pope Benedict is said to have retr...

Datum: 04.11.2009 17:00 • Größe: 41.1 MB

278) Can the United States Affect Iran's Nuclear Ambitions?

As international negotiations continue over Iran's nuclear program, hope remains for an alternative to the unappetizing choice between an incipient Iranian nuclear capability and a war against Iran. How might internal political developments in Iran affect Tehran's negotiating posture? What impact wi...

Datum: 03.11.2009 17:00 • Größe: 14.3 MB

277) Tricked on Our Treats: Time to Rethink the U.S. Sugar Program

For decades, the U.S. government has restricted sugar imports through a system of quotas designed to keep domestic prices artificially high, even though foreign producers can grow and sell sugar at much lower prices. Domestic growers maintain that they need the quotas to protect them from "dumped" i...

Datum: 30.10.2009 16:00 • Größe: 20.3 MB

276) Atomic Obsession: Nuclear Alarmism from Hiroshima to Al Qaeda

Purchase at Amazon Having informed readers in previous books that their fears of war and terrorism are overblown, iconoclastic political scientist John Mueller has set his sights on nuclear weapons. For Mueller, nuclear weapons have never represented much of a threat given states' fundamental un...

Datum: 29.10.2009 15:00 • Größe: 53.7 MB

275) The Life and Impact of Ayn Rand

Purchase at AmazonPurchase at Amazon Two major new books on Ayn Rand testify to the continuing impact of America's most influential novelist of ideas. Sales of Rand's books have been impressive for 66 years — more than 25 million — and have recently surged, perhaps in response to the ...

Datum: 28.10.2009 21:00 • Größe: 42.9 MB

274) The Case for Tax Competition, Fiscal Sovereignty, and Financial Privacy

In recent decades, rising globalization has forced governments to restrain their fiscal appetites. After the Reagan and Thatcher tax rate cuts of the 1980s, other countries were forced to respond with their own tax reforms. The growth of low-tax jurisdictions, or tax havens, has put further benefici...

Datum: 20.10.2009 17:00 • Größe: 24.3 MB

273) The Case for Tax Competition, Fiscal Sovereignty, and Financial Privacy

Datum: 20.10.2009 17:00 • Größe: 35.8 MB

272) The Case for Tax Competition, Fiscal Sovereignty, and Financial Privacy

Datum: 20.10.2009 17:00 • Größe: 39.1 MB

271) The Case for Tax Competition, Fiscal Sovereignty, and Financial Privacy

Datum: 20.10.2009 17:00 • Größe: 31 MB

270) Which Way Forward for Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac?

Part of the federal response to the bursting of the housing bubble and resulting financial crisis was the federal rescue of the government-sponsored housing-finance enterprises, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. Given both the enormous cost of bailing out Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, which could run to ove...

Datum: 19.10.2009 16:00 • Größe: 45.3 MB

269) Driving in the Wrong Direction: The Sordid Details and Lasting Consequences of t

According to their own interpretation of events, the Bush and then Obama administrations rescued the entire U.S. auto industry from imminent disaster and total failure. But in fact, a potential collapse only threatened General Motors and Chrysler, whose years of bad decision-making had finally caugh...

Datum: 15.10.2009 16:00 • Größe: 49.1 MB

268) To Begin the World Over Again: Lawrence of Arabia from Damascus to Baghdad

Purchase at Amazon As the United States stumbles through ambitious nation-building missions in Iraq and Afghanistan, it is obvious that many in Washington have ignored the lessons that past statesmen had suffered greatly to learn. Chief among these would-be nation builders was the almost mythical...

Datum: 14.10.2009 16:00 • Größe: 50.7 MB

267) The Power of Memory and Acknowledgement

Twenty years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, renowned Soviet dissident Vladimir Bukovsky will reflect on the need for Russia to acknowledge the criminal nature of its communist past. The way in which the crimes of communism are remembered contrasts with the way in which Nazism was legally judged ...

Datum: 13.10.2009 22:00 • Größe: 39.3 MB

266) Not Invited to the Party: How the Demopublicans Have Rigged the System and Left

Purchase at Amazon Free markets have few barriers to entry. Individuals and firms can offer new products or services to consumers, thereby fostering competition and choice. American elections, in contrast, are dominated by two parties. Not Invited to the Party synthesizes political science, econo...

Datum: 13.10.2009 16:00 • Größe: 54.5 MB

265) How Government "Competes": Grab Arm, Twist

Supporters claim a new "government option" would compete on a level playing field with private health insurance. But a new lawsuit belies that claim. Since 1993, the Social Security Administration has effectively coerced seniors into enrolling in Medicare by decreeing that those who opt out of Med...

Datum: 13.10.2009 16:00 • Größe: 24.4 MB

264) Taking Control of Spiraling College Costs

Rising at a faster rate than even health care costs, the price of college is skyrocketing into the stratosphere. In The Revenue-to-Cost Spiral in Higher Education, economist Robert E. Martin posits that the problem is rooted in the ability of most colleges to succeed by maximizing their prestige rat...

Datum: 06.10.2009 16:00 • Größe: 52.9 MB

263) America's Top Models: Can the Nation's Best Charter Schools Be Brought to Scale?

Founded by Ben Chavis in 2006, American Indian Public Charter School is already the fourth highest performing public high school in California. Its students are almost all African American or Hispanic, and poor. The Knowledge is Power Program (KIPP) network of public charter schools, the focus of Ja...

Datum: 02.10.2009 16:00 • Größe: 51.8 MB

262) How American Health Care Killed My Father

David Goldhill is a Democrat and a business executive who paid little attention to the economics of health care before his father's life was cut short by a hospital-acquired infection. That loss drove him to uncover the truth about American health care, which he reveals in an article that has been a...

Datum: 01.10.2009 16:00 • Größe: 30.8 MB

261) The Criminalization of (Almost) Everything

Purchase book Purchase book America's criminal codes are now so voluminous that they bewilder not only the average citizen but also the average lawyer. Our courthouses are so clogged that there is no longer adequate time for trials. And many of our prisons are now operating well ...

Datum: 01.10.2009 16:00 • Größe: 40.8 MB

260) The China Factor: Persuading Beijing to Get Tough with North Korea

Although North Korea has recently made some minor conciliatory gestures, there is little indication that Pyongyang intends to give up its destabilizing nuclear and missile programs. What can be done? War is not an acceptable option, increased sanctions seem unlikely to work, and so far diplomacy has...

Datum: 30.09.2009 16:00 • Größe: 16.1 MB

259) The Case for Withdrawal from Afghanistan

Nearly eight years after the fall of the Taliban regime, Afghanistan struggles under the most brutal circumstances: corrupt and ineffective state institutions, thousands of miles of unguarded borders pervasive illiteracy and poverty, and a dysfunctional international alliance attempting to provide s...

Datum: 25.09.2009 16:00 • Größe: 13.7 MB

258) Freedom and Prosperity in Central and Eastern Europe: 20 Years after the Collaps

Datum: 21.09.2009 13:00 • Größe: 48.9 MB

257) Freedom and Prosperity in Central and Eastern Europe: 20 Years after the Collaps

Datum: 21.09.2009 13:00 • Größe: 29.3 MB

256) Freedom and Prosperity in Central and Eastern Europe: 20 Years after the Collaps

Datum: 21.09.2009 13:00 • Größe: 50.2 MB

255) Toward a Customer-Driven Transportation Reauthorization

In reauthorizing federal funding for transportation, Congress has a choice between top-down policies whose focus is on reducing American mobility at almost any cost and customer-driven policies whose focus is on enabling mobility while cost-effectively minimizing the environmental impact of that mob...

Datum: 17.09.2009 16:00 • Größe: 32 MB

254) 8th Annual Constitution Day

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253) 8th Annual Constitution Day

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252) 8th Annual Constitution Day

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251) 8th Annual Constitution Day

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250) 8th Annual Constitution Day

Datum: 17.09.2009 14:30 • Größe: 41.9 MB

249) The Right Road for America: Top-Down Transportation Planning vs. Customer-Driven

The Obama Administration admits that one of its environmental goals is to "coerce people out of their cars." The administration's "behavior modification" plans would spend more tax dollars on high-speed rail and transit, leaving highways increasingly congested and dangerous to use. This forum wil...

Datum: 15.09.2009 16:00 • Größe: 50.1 MB

248) Should the United States Withdraw from Afghanistan?

Nearly eight years after the fall of the Taliban regime, Afghanistan struggles under the most brutal circumstances: corrupt and ineffective state institutions; thousands of miles of unguarded borders; pervasive illiteracy and poverty; and a dysfunctional international alliance attempting to provide ...

Datum: 14.09.2009 16:00 • Größe: 51.5 MB

247) A Harsh Climate for Trade: How Climate Change Proposals Threaten Global Commerce

As the Senate prepares to consider a climate change bill, a new study from the Cato Institute lays out some of the dangers in trade provisions ostensibly designed to "level the carbon playing field" between countries that sign carbon-limiting agreements and those that do not. Using the latest data a...

Datum: 10.09.2009 16:00 • Größe: 33.2 MB

246) Understanding Health Care Co-ops

With the "public option" for health care reform faltering, "co-ops" are increasingly being discussed as an alternative. But what are health insurance co-operatives? How do they work? Are they a viable alternative or just the public option by a different name? Cato senior fellow Michael Tanner wi...

Datum: 09.09.2009 16:00 • Größe: 27.5 MB

245) Citizens United Redux: The First Amendment Vindicated?

In January 2008, the United States District Court for the District of Columbia ruled that the commercials for a film, Hillary: The Movie, violated the section of the McCain-Feingold Act that restricts "electioneering communications" within 30 days before primaries. The United States Supreme Court wa...

Datum: 08.09.2009 16:00 • Größe: 48.9 MB

244) Diagnosing and Treating the Roots of the Financial Crisis

Purchase at CatoStore How is it that in a world where thousands of people regulated financial markets the whole system crashed? And should we now give more power to central banks, government agencies, politicians, and regulators? Are they what brought us this crisis in the first place? In the new...

Datum: 02.09.2009 16:00 • Größe: 35.1 MB

243) Financial Fiasco: How America's Infatuation with Home Ownership and Easy Money C

Purchase at CatoStore How was it possible that in a world where thousands of people regulated financial markets the whole system crashed down? And should we now give more power to central banks, government agencies, politicians, and regulators? Isn't that what brought us here in the first place? ...

Datum: 01.09.2009 16:00 • Größe: 48.9 MB

242) Restriction or Legalization? Measuring the Economic Benefits of Immigration Refo

As Congress prepares to tackle immigration reform, a new study from the Cato Institute estimates that the difference in the impact on U.S. households between the most and least restrictive policies would be about a quarter of a trillion dollars. Using a model of the U.S. economy developed for the De...

Datum: 14.08.2009 16:00 • Größe: 17 MB

241) Create Your Own Economy: The Path to Prosperity in a Disordered World - Book For

Purchase at Amazon How will we live well in a super-networked, information-soaked, yet predictably irrational world? The only way to know is to understand how the way we think is changing. As economist Tyler Cowen shows in Create Your Own Economy, the way we think is now changing more rapidly tha...

Datum: 04.08.2009 04:00 • Größe: 39.9 MB

240) Venezuela's Assault on Freedom of the Press and Other Liberties

Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez is promising to shut down Globovision Televisión, the last remaining independent television station broadcasting on public airwaves in the country. Two years ago, the government closed RCTV, Venezuela's largest television station, a move that sparked the successful s...

Datum: 30.07.2009 04:00 • Größe: 52.7 MB

239) Assessing the Options: REAL ID, PASS ID, or No National ID at All

The introduction of a bill called the PASS ID Act in the Senate has renewed the debate about whether the United States should have a national ID. PASS ID purports to improve on the moribund REAL ID Act, but the central question is whether there should be a national ID at all. A national ID would cos...

Datum: 24.07.2009 04:00 • Größe: 23.4 MB

238) Who Are the Uninsured?

The 2006 Census Bureau estimate of 47 million uninsured Americans is often cited as a reason that health care reform is necessary. But who makes up this 47 million? Is it fair to lump all uninsured individuals into one statistic? Building on her recent Employment Policies Institute paper Who are the...

Datum: 20.07.2009 04:00 • Größe: 22.5 MB

237) What Government-Run Health Care Really Means

Government-run health systems, such as the one in Canada, are pointed to by those on different sides of the issue as examples of what to do or not to do in health reform. What lessons do these systems hold for the United States as it attempts to overhaul its health care system? What policies should ...

Datum: 15.07.2009 04:00 • Größe: 36.7 MB

236) Engaging China to Solve the North Korea Problem

North Korea has been acting in an increasingly provocative manner, threatening nuclear and missile tests, and imprisoning two U.S. reporters captured on the North's border with China. What can be done? War is not an acceptable option, increased sanctions seem unlikely to work, and so far diplomacy h...

Datum: 14.07.2009 04:00 • Größe: 48.3 MB

235) Voting Rights?and Wrongs: The Elusive Quest for Racially Fair Elections

Purchase at Amazon The 1965 Voting Rights Act is the crown jewel of American civil rights legislation; its passage marked the death knell of the Jim Crow South. But that was the beginning, not the end, of an important debate on race and representation in American democracy. When is the distribu...

Datum: 09.07.2009 04:00 • Größe: 50 MB

234) Federal Drug Policy: Time to Shift Priorities - Capitol Hill Briefing

President Obama's new drug czar, Gil Kerlikowske, says he wants to banish the idea of a "war on drugs" because the federal government should not be "at war with the people of this country." An important and welcome announcement, to be sure, but what government policies will be actually adjusted, can...

Datum: 07.07.2009 04:00 • Größe: 34.5 MB

233) To Reform Health Care, Don't Increase Taxes, Cut Them - Capitol Hill Briefing

To cover the likely $2 trillion cost of extending health insurance coverage to the uninsured, Democratic leaders are scrambling to find ways to increase the American people's taxes. Should Congress tax health benefits? Charitable contributions? Soda pop? Wages? The rich? Or are congressional l...

Datum: 26.06.2009 04:00 • Größe: 23.8 MB

232) Is This Socialized Medicine?

As with past attempts to overhaul America's health care sector, critics have labeled the reforms before Congress "socialized medicine." Is this a fair accusation? Are President Obama and congressional Democrats really trying to impose socialized medicine on the United States? What is socialized medi...

Datum: 25.06.2009 04:00 • Größe: 49.7 MB

231) Bringing Transparency to the Federal Reserve

The recent financial crisis has led to a massive expansion of government involvement in our capital markets. Foremost among those interventions has been the almost tripling of the Federal Reserve's balance sheet, from just over $800 billion before the crisis to almost $2.3 trillion now. Even more as...

Datum: 24.06.2009 04:00 • Größe: 37.2 MB

230) Pakistan and the Future of U.S. Policy

In recent months, Pakistani security forces have been battling extremists from Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan, Tehreek-e-Nifaz-e-Shariat-e-Mohammadi, and other interconnected networks of terrorist groups in the country's northern districts. Insurgents routinely attack local authorities and have forced ov...

Datum: 23.06.2009 04:00 • Größe: 48.6 MB

229) Massachusetts ? Three Years Later - Capitol Hill Briefing

When Massachusetts passed its pioneering health care reforms in 2006, critics warned that they would result in a downward spiral toward a government-run health care system. Three years later, those predictions appear to be coming true. With the "Massachusetts model" frequently cited as a blueprint f...

Datum: 22.06.2009 04:00 • Größe: 34.6 MB

228) It's Our Turn to Eat: The Story of a Kenyan Whistleblower - Book Forum

Purchase at Amazon When the 24-year-long reign of Daniel arap Moi ended in 2002, Kenyans looked to their new democratically elected government to end pervasive corruption and fix the economy. The new president, Mwai Kibaki, quickly appointed John Githongo as Kenya's anti-corruption czar and too...

Datum: 22.06.2009 04:00 • Größe: 70.4 MB

227) Dred Scott's Revenge: A Legal History of Race and Freedom in America

Purchase at Amazon The Declaration of Independence proclaimed America's belief in legal equality and inalienable rights. But American governments legally suspended the free will of blacks for 150 years and then denied blacks equal protection under the law for another 150 years. How did this happe...

Datum: 18.06.2009 04:00 • Größe: 49.2 MB

226) Cato Institute Conference on Health Care Reform - Health Care Reform: the Long-T

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225) Cato Institute Conference on Health Care Reform - Panel 1: Should Congress Manda

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224) Cato Institute Conference on Health Care Reform - Panel 2: Where Does Delivery-S

Datum: 17.06.2009 04:00 • Größe: 48.8 MB

223) Cato Institute Conference on Health Care Reform - Luncheon Address: Perspectives

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222) Cato Institute Conference on Health Care Reform - Panel 3: Another Government He

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221) Cato Institute Conference on Health Care Reform - Panel 4: Is There a Free-Marke

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220) A New Course for Antitrust

On May 11, Assistant Attorney General Christine Varney announced plans to restore an aggressive enforcement policy against corporations that engage in anti-competitive behavior. Specifically, the Justice Department was revoking legal guidelines that were adopted in September 2008 that made it more ...

Datum: 16.06.2009 04:00 • Größe: 50 MB

219) Restoring the Pro-Trade Consensus

The bipartisan, pro-trade consensus that served U.S. interests so well for nearly six decades collapsed during the Bush administration. Today, the direction of U.S. trade policy remains unclear to most observers. Although President Obama seems to appreciate the importance of trade and speaks about t...

Datum: 15.06.2009 04:00 • Größe: 23.7 MB

218) Fusion Centers: Domestic Spying or Sensible Surveillance?

Police departments across the country are starting to create networks of databases called "fusion centers" in an effort to detect and prevent acts of terrorism. The ultimate objective is to create a nationwide reporting system of suspicious behaviors so that the authorities can "connect the dots" be...

Datum: 11.06.2009 04:00 • Größe: 44.4 MB

217) Who Are the Real Free Traders in Congress?

Which members of Congress most consistently support the freedom of Americans to trade and invest in the global economy?free of market-distorting subsidies and barriers? Cato trade scholar Daniel Griswold will reveal who in the 110th Congress earned the title of "Free Trader" and demonstrate the new ...

Datum: 10.06.2009 04:00 • Größe: 16.8 MB

216) Driving Like Crazy

Purchase book If scathing, uproarious, and insightful political satire were not enough, for more than 30 years P. J. O'Rourke?acclaimed humorist and H. L. Mencken Research Fellow at the Cato Institute?has written about his love affair with the automobile. His newest book, Driving Like Crazy: Thir...

Datum: 09.06.2009 04:00 • Größe: 31.5 MB

215) The Financial Fix ? Limited Purpose Banking

The Obama administration is expected to propose a comprehensive reform of the American financial system some time in June. Goodman and Kotlikoff find the administration's financial strategy ? fighting each financial fire one by one and rebuilding the old system pretty much as it was ? deeply misgui...

Datum: 08.06.2009 04:00 • Größe: 50.6 MB

214) Will Cost Containment Derail Health Care Reform?

From a patient's point of view, the ideal health insurance policy would offer unlimited access to medical services at no charge. Unfortunately, it is not feasible to offer this to everyone. The key to sustainable health care reform is restraining the use of services that have high costs and low ben...

Datum: 02.06.2009 04:00 • Größe: 19.4 MB

213) Brother, Can You Spare A Trillion? - Lessons from the New Deal and Great Depress

12:30 or 1 start, 2panels, a key note and reception. However-confirming sched

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212) Brother, Can You Spare A Trillion? - Lessons from the New Deal and Great Depress

12:30 or 1 start, 2panels, a key note and reception. However-confirming sched

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211) Money, Markets, and Sovereignty - Book Forum

Purchase at Amazon The current state of international economic relations is unusual and precarious. Benn Steil and Manuel Hinds will explain how protectionism has historically coincided with monetary nationalism, whereas eras of liberal trade have been accompanied by a universal monetary standard...

Datum: 19.05.2009 04:00 • Größe: 43.3 MB

210) The Welfare State We're In

Purchase at Amazon "A splendid book. A devastating critique of the welfare state. A page-turner, yet also extensively sourced. I congratulate Mr. Bartholomew." ? Milton Friedman In this controversial book, James Bartholomew argues that the welfare state in Britain has resulted in a generation ...

Datum: 18.05.2009 04:00 • Größe: 41.7 MB

209) Is It Time to End the International War on Drugs? - Capitol Hill Briefing

Since President Nixon launched the War on Drugs in 1971, its escalating direct and indirect costs have become increasingly apparent. As we have seen over the decades in Colombia, Mexico, Afghanistan, and other drug-source countries, banning the drug trade creates economic distortions and an opportu...

Datum: 15.05.2009 04:00 • Größe: 22.5 MB

208) How Overreaction and Misdirection Play into the Strategy of Terrorism

Terrorism seeks to weaken strong powers like the United States by goading them to overreact and waste their own blood and treasure, give sympathy and recruiting gains to terrorists, and come loose from their ideological moorings. Beyond avoiding war and misdirected homeland security efforts, sound c...

Datum: 11.05.2009 04:00 • Größe: 17 MB

207) The Dangers of U.S. Military Dominance

Purchase from Cato Bookstore Numerous polls show that Americans want to reduce our military presence abroad, allowing our allies and other nations to assume greater responsibility both for their own defense and for enforcing security in their respective regions. Why haven't we done so? In The Pow...

Datum: 01.05.2009 04:00 • Größe: 22 MB

206) Restoring the Pro-Trade Consensus - Policy Forum

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205) The Power of Freedom: Uniting Human Rights and Development

Purchase at Cato Are the quests for human rights and economic development compatible? Jean-Pierre Chauffour takes the development and human rights communities to task for working at cross purposes and often advocating policies that violate basic rights, whether those rights are economic freedoms ...

Datum: 23.04.2009 04:00 • Größe: 43.5 MB

204) The Power Problem: How American Military Dominance Makes Us Less Safe, Less Pros

Purchase at Cato Numerous polls show that Americans want to reduce our military presence abroad, allowing our allies and other nations to assume greater responsibility both for their own defense and for enforcing security in their respective regions. Why haven't we done so? In The Power Proble...

Datum: 20.04.2009 04:00 • Größe: 50.1 MB

203) Can Government Be Trusted with the Money Supply?

Purchase at Amazon The Federal Reserve's contribution to the current financial crisis, far from being exceptional, is typical of central banks' frequent, myopic mismanagement of money. So why, given their dismal record, do we allow governments to manage money at all? The standard answer is that w...

Datum: 17.04.2009 04:00 • Größe: 47.1 MB

202) Left Turn? South Africa after the Election - Policy Forum

On April 22, South Africa will hold its fourth general election since the advent of multiracial democracy in 1994 and first general election since the break-up of the once-hegemonic African National Congress. Will a strong showing by the new party-the Congress of the People-reduce the ANC's majority...

Datum: 16.04.2009 04:00 • Größe: 73.3 MB

201) Left Turn? South Africa after the Election - Policy Forum

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200) The Beautiful Tree: A Personal Journey Into How the World's Poorest People Are

Purchase at Cato "A moving account of how poor parents struggle against great odds to provide a rich educational experience to their children." --Publishers Weekly Everyone from Bono to the United Nations is looking for a miracle to bring schooling within reach of the poorest children on Earth...

Datum: 15.04.2009 04:00 • Größe: 32.3 MB

199) Health Care University: Which Reforms Are Better?or Worse?than Doing Nothing? -

President Obama and others on the Left have proposed a public plan--modeled on Medicare--to compete with private insurers. But Medicare is not the solution; it is the problem. Besides, there's no true competition if one of the players is also the referee. This session will explain why any package ...

Datum: 14.04.2009 04:00 • Größe: 19.3 MB

198) Health Care University: Which Reforms Are Better?or Worse?than Doing Nothing? -

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197) Health Care University: Which Reforms Are Better?or Worse?than Doing Nothing? -

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196) Health Care University: Which Reforms Are Better?or Worse?than Doing Nothing? -

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195) What the Administration's College Proposals Would Do for America

President Obama has called for the United States to have "the highest proportion of college graduates in the world by the year 2020." The goal is lofty, but is simply having more college graduates really that important? And will significantly increasing federal student aid actually make college more...

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194) Seasteading: Homesteading the High Seas for Liberty

History provides us with many examples of powerful institutions being disrupted by technology. The invention of the printing press undermined the authority of the Catholic Church by democratizing access to knowledge. Today, the Internet is undermining the traditional copyright industries. Now, an...

Datum: 07.04.2009 04:00 • Größe: 36.4 MB

193) What the Administration's College Proposals Would Do for America

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192) Securing Land Rights for Chinese Farmers: The Progress So Far

Between 700 and 800 million Chinese, more than half of China's population, are still rural. Economic reforms have helped Chinese farmers, but rural China is falling further and further behind urban China. The lack of land rights for rural Chinese is a major cause of the disparity and a major source ...

Datum: 06.04.2009 04:00 • Größe: 44.3 MB

191) NATO at 60: A Hollow Alliance

As the North Atlantic Treaty Organization celebrates its 60th birthday, there are mounting signs of trouble within the alliance and reasons to doubt the organization's relevance to the foreign policy challenges of the 21st century. Today's NATO is a bad bargain for the United States. We have securit...

Datum: 03.04.2009 04:00 • Größe: 20.2 MB

190) Drug Decriminalization in Portugal

In 2001, Portugal began a remarkable policy experiment, decriminalizing all drugs, including cocaine and heroin. Some predicted disastrous results ? that drug addiction rates would soar and the country would become a haven for "drug tourists." Now that several years have passed, policy experts can s...

Datum: 03.04.2009 04:00 • Größe: 36.7 MB

189) Dead Aid: Why Aid Is Not Working and How There Is a Better Way for Africa

Purchase at Amazon One of the greatest myths of our time is that foreign aid can help Africa fight poverty and increase growth. So says Zambian author Dambisa Moyo, who calls aid an "unmitigated economic, political, and humanitarian disaster" that has made Africans poorer. She will explain why ...

Datum: 03.04.2009 04:00 • Größe: 43 MB

188) Obama's Blueprint for Growing the Welfare State

Even by Washington standards, President Obama's budget blueprint is astounding in its big-government ambitions: massive deficits, a huge health care plan, enormous global warming taxes, new subsidy programs, and punishing tax hikes on individuals, small businesses, and multinational corporations. P...

Datum: 31.03.2009 04:00 • Größe: 19.7 MB

187) Can the Market Provide Choice and Secure Health Coverage Even for High-Cost Illn

At his White House summit on health care reform, President Obama said, "If there is a way of getting this done where we're driving down costs and people are getting health insurance at an affordable rate, and have choice of doctor, have flexibility in terms of their plans, and we could do that entir...

Datum: 31.03.2009 04:00 • Größe: 47.8 MB

186) Georgia's Liberal Institutions In the Wake of War and the Global Economic Crisis

Since the Rose Revolution of 2003, Georgia has implemented perhaps the most ambitious economic reform program of all formerly socialist countries. Years of high growth have been transforming it into an economic success story. But beginning last year the country suffered a war with Russia, partial oc...

Datum: 24.03.2009 04:00 • Größe: 47.2 MB

185) Tax Havens Should Be Celebrated, Not Persecuted

Politicians from high-tax nations, working through international bureaucracies such as the Paris-based Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, are trying to undermine tax competition by persecuting so-called tax havens. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner recently testified that the O...

Datum: 23.03.2009 04:00 • Größe: 22.6 MB

184) The Tie Goes to Freedom: Justice Anthony M. Kennedy on Liberty

Purchase at Amazon Justice Anthony M. Kennedy sits at the center of the Roberts Court. Two terms ago he was in the majority in all 24 of the 5/4 decisions. During that term, in fact, he was in the majority in all but two of the Court's decisions, and his pivotal role on the Court continues. It is...

Datum: 23.03.2009 04:00 • Größe: 41 MB

183) The Tie Goes to Freedom: Justice Anthony M. Kennedy on Liberty - Book Forum

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182) The Politics and Science of Medical Marijuana

Ten years ago, on March 17, 1999, an important government study was released regarding certain patients? use of marijuana as prescribed by their doctors. The Institute of Medicine, a branch of the National Academy of Sciences, issued what was then the most comprehensive analysis of the scientific an...

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181) Can the Pentagon Be Fixed?

Most defense analysts agree: the Pentagon is in serious need of reform. Acquisition programs run above cost and behind schedule. The U.S. defense budget is higher than at any point during the Cold War, but capability has not kept pace. We field fewer ships, aircraft, and tanks than we did in the day...

Datum: 13.03.2009 04:00 • Größe: 52.2 MB

180) Transportation Reauthorization: Looking Beyond the Recession

After passing an economic "stimulus" bill containing billions of dollars of infrastructure spending, members of Congress will soon turn their attention to reauthorizing surface transportation funding for five more years. Given the substantial public resources that will be committed to transportatio...

Datum: 12.03.2009 04:00 • Größe: 28.7 MB

179) Climate of Extremes: Global Warming Science They Don?t Want You to Know

Purchase There's a whole new world of global warming science today-but few ever hear about it. In recent years, an internally consistent body of scientific literature has emerged that argues cogently for global warming but against the gloom-and-doom, apocalyptic vision of climate change. Not that...

Datum: 12.03.2009 04:00 • Größe: 56.4 MB

178) Should Government Deliver Comparative-Effectiveness Research ? or Can It?

Studies comparing the effectiveness of medical treatments have the potential to reduce health care costs by helping purchasers, such as Medicare, eliminate low-value services. Health care analysts generally agree that current institutions underproduce comparative-effectiveness research, and economis...

Datum: 03.03.2009 05:00 • Größe: 47 MB

177) Obama and Presidential Power: Change or Continuity?

George W. Bush's administration pushed relentlessly to expand presidential power at the expense of Congress. In late 2007, in an interview with the Boston Globe, presidential candidate Barack Obama repudiated virtually all of the Bush administration's most controversial executive power claims. Will ...

Datum: 25.02.2009 05:00 • Größe: 44.3 MB

176) Why Markets Are the Key to Quality, Coordinated Medical Care

The uninsured are not the only problem our health care sector faces; powerful forces suppress the quality of care for insured and uninsured alike. Notably, Americans receive dangerously uncoordinated medical care. Most approaches to improving health care coordination rely on government-imposed top-d...

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175) Why Markets Are the Key to Quality, Coordinated Medical Care

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174) Why Markets Are the Key to Quality, Coordinated Medical Care

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173) Mexico?s Drug War: The Growing Crisis on Our Southern Border

As the new Obama administration surveys possible national security threats confronting the United States, policymakers need to recognize that an especially lethal one is brewing close to home: the increasing drug-related violence in Mexico. Since January 2007 there have been more than 6,800 drug-war...

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172) Mexico?s Drug War: The Growing Crisis on Our Southern Border

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171) ?Falling Behind: Explaining the Development Gap Between Latin America and the Un

During the past 400 years, the development gap between Latin America and British North America dramatically widened. Francis Fukuyama will discuss prominent theories for that divergence?including those that emphasize the roles of natural resources, culture, and geography?and explain how institutions...

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170) Falling Behind: Explaining the Development Gap Between Latin America and the Uni

During the past 400 years, the development gap between Latin America and British North America dramatically widened. Francis Fukuyama will discuss prominent theories for that divergence -- including those that emphasize the roles of natural resources, culture, and geography -- and explain how instit...

Datum: 18.02.2009 05:00 • Größe: 44.1 MB

169) A Service to the Economy: The Importance of Free Trade in Services

Although they are a large and growing segment of world trade, services are frequently relegated to second-tier status in trade negotiations--behind high profile sectors such as agriculture and manufactured goods. That?s unfortunate, because studies from several international economic institutions--a...

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168) A Service to the Economy: The Importance of Free Trade in Services

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167) In Search of Jefferson's Moose: Notes on the State of Cyberspace

In 1787, Thomas Jefferson put a stuffed American moose in the lobby of his Paris residence. As the U.S. minister to France, Jefferson displayed the moose to powerfully symbolize the enormous possibilities of America. The new world of the Internet has equally vast possibilities and, like North Americ...

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166) In Search of Jefferson's Moose: Notes on the State of Cyberspace

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165) Climate of Extremes: The Global Warming Science They Don?t Want You to Know - Ca

A radically different view of global warming science has emerged in recent years contrary to the shrill gloom-and-doom projections that are so popular in Washington and elsewhere. In the new book Climate of Extremes: Global Warming Science They Don?t Want You to Know, Cato scholar and University of ...

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164) Climate of Extremes: The Global Warming Science They Don't Want You to Know - Ca

A radically different view of global warming science has emerged in recent years contrary to the shrill gloom-and-doom projections that are so popular in Washington and elsewhere. In the new book Climate of Extremes: Global Warming Science They Don't Want You to Know, Cato scholar and University of ...

Datum: 28.01.2009 05:00 • Größe: 34.9 MB

163) Little Pink House: A True Story of Defiance and Courage - Book Forum

No U.S. Supreme Court decision in the modern era has been so quickly and widely reviled as the infamous Kelo decision, in which the Court ruled that Susette Kelo's little pink house in New London, Connecticut, and the homes of her neighbors could be taken by the government and given over to a privat...

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162) Little Pink House: A True Story of Defiance and Courage - Book Forum

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161) Avoiding a Health Care Disaster

With the return of one-party government, major policy changes in health care seem all but inevitable. Yet fundamentally divergent interests in both Congress and the health industry will make consensus difficult to obtain. The most dangerous proposals are those that expand political control over pati...

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160) Avoiding a Health Care Disaster

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159) Obama's Fiscal Policies: Ignoring the Global Tax Revolution - Hill Briefing

The incoming Obama administration has proposed many tax code changes, but it has not come forth with any substantial tax reforms to boost competitiveness and long-run growth. In an era of globalization, U.S. policymakers need to respond to the dramatic tax reforms taking place abroad, or else they r...

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158) Obama's Fiscal Policies: Ignoring the Global Tax Revolution - Hill Briefing

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157) Does Public Higher Ed Funding Drive Economic Growth? - Policy Forum

Everyone knows that people who graduate from college earn more than those who don't. It's also widely understood that technology drives economic growth, and university research drives technology. Finally, it seems clear that in a rapidly evolving world workers will need to transform their skills, an...

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156) Does Public Higher Ed Funding Drive Economic Growth? - Policy Forum

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155) Shaping the Obama Administration?s Counterterrorism Strategy - Panel III: Terror

Datum: 13.01.2009 05:00 • Größe: 36.9 MB

154) Shaping the Obama Administration?s Counterterrorism Strategy - Panel IV: Assessi

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153) Shaping the Obama Administration?s Counterterrorism Strategy - Keynote Address

Datum: 13.01.2009 05:00 • Größe: 15.6 MB

152) Shaping the Obama Administration?s Counterterrorism Strategy - Panel 1: How Over

Datum: 13.01.2009 05:00 • Größe: 39.4 MB

151) Shaping the Obama Administration?s Counterterrorism Strategy - Panel II: Terrori

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150) Shaping the Obama Administration?s Counterterrorism Strategy - Panel 1: How Over

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149) Shaping the Obama Administration?s Counterterrorism Strategy - Panel II: Terrori

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148) Shaping the Obama Administration?s Counterterrorism Strategy - Keynote Address

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147) Shaping the Obama Administration?s Counterterrorism Strategy - Panel III: Terror

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146) Shaping the Obama Administration?s Counterterrorism Strategy - Panel IV: Assessi

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145) Do Government Spending and Tax Rebates Stimulate Growth? -

President-elect Obama and other politicians are urging a massive expansion in government spending, ostensibly to help the economy recover. This Keynesian endeavor is supposed to boost growth by "priming the pump" by means of circulating extra money through the economy. Yet the notion that bigger gov...

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144) Do Government Spending and Tax Rebates Stimulate Growth? - Capitol Hill Briefing

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143) Do Government Spending and Tax Rebates Stimulate Growth? - Capitol Hill Briefing

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142) Obama's National Security Policy: A New Approach or More of the Same? -

President-elect Obama rode to victory on a promise of change. But how is he likely to change U.S. national security policy, and will these changes make us more or less secure? Will Obama embrace a different counterterrorism strategy than his predecessor, and how quickly will he remove U.S. forces fr...

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141) Obama's National Security Policy: A New Approach or More of the Same? - Capitol

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140) Obama's National Security Policy: A New Approach or More of the Same? - Capitol

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139) Afghanistan Seven Years Later - Policy Forum

Seven years after the invasion of Afghanistan, coalition troops are no closer to winning the war against the Taliban. With security getting worse and a violent insurgency raging in western Pakistan, can the "war on terror?s" central front be won? Will a heavier combat presence, endorsed by President...

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138) Afghanistan Seven Years Later - Policy Forum

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137) Just Give Us the Data! Prospects for Putting Government Information to Revolut

For all the change information technology has brought to society, the government sector lags behind in part because access to good data is lacking. A stable of private, non-profit, and volunteer efforts promise revolutionary change once they can access standardized, structured, and open government d...

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136) Just Give Us the Data! Prospects for Putting Government Information to Revolut

Datum: 10.12.2008 05:00 • Größe: 41.5 MB

135) Does America?s Health Care Sector Produce More Health? -

Americans spend far more per capita than other nations on medical care. Defenders of America's health sector, such as Rudy Giuliani, claim it delivers superior health outcomes, such as longer cancer survival rates. Detractors claim that other nations systems' deliver equal or better health outcomes ...

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134) Does America?s Health Care Sector Produce More Health? - Policy Forum

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133) Free to Booze: The 75th Anniversary of the Repeal of Prohibition - Policy Forum

On December 5, 1933, the 21st Amendment to the Constitution was ratified, thus ending our nation?s failed experiment with Prohibition. Organized crime flourished during Prohibition, but what were the other effects of the national ban on alcohol? How and why was it repealed? Please join the Cato Inst...

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132) Does America?s Health Care Sector Produce More Health? - Policy Forum

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131) Free to Booze: The 75th Anniversary of the Repeal of Prohibition - Policy Forum

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130) The Price of Everything: A Parable of Possibility and Prosperity - Book Forum

Purchase at Amazon George Will writes in Newsweek, "Improbable as it might seem, perhaps the most important fact for a voter or politician to know is: No one can make a pencil. That truth is the essence of a novella that is, remarkably, both didactic and romantic. Even more remarkable, its author...

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129) The Price of Everything: A Parable of Possibility and Prosperity - Book Forum

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128) How Nations Prosper: Economic Freedom and Doing Business around the World

Purchase at Catostore Economic freedom around the world continues to increase, though there are notable cases of decline, including the United States. James Gwartney and Robert Lawson will discuss those cases, describe trends in economic reform and present new findings on the effect of economic f...

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127) Gun Control on Trial - Book Forum

Purchase at Amazon Last June, the Supreme Court had its first opportunity in seven decades to address one of America's most impassioned constitutional debates: Does the right to possess firearms, as stated in the Second Amendment, apply to individuals? Yes, the Court ruled, it does. And, with tha...

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126) How Nations Prosper: Economic Freedom and Doing Business around the World

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125) Gun Control on Trial - Book Forum

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124) 26th Annual Monetary Conference: Lessons from the Subprime Crisis - Remarks and

Cato?s 26th Annual Monetary Conference will provide an in-depth treatment of the [Lessons from the Subprime Crisis], which some view as the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression. Leading experts will discuss the underlying causes of the loss of confidence, particularly the policies that ...