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March 11, 2025
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The Budgetary Cost of the Inflation Reduction Act’s Energy Subsidies
The massive cash transfer from taxpayers to private firms under the guise of environmentalism creates an overwhelming and undue burden on taxpayers who continue to pay for fiscally irresponsible federal spending. You can learn more by reading their Policy Analysis “The Budgetary Cost of the Inflation Reduction Act’s Energy Subsidies.”
Featuring Travis Fisher and Joshua Loucks
February 14, 2025
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The Future of NATO: A Discussion on What NATO’s History Tells Us About Its Potential Future
In this discussion, Justin Logan, director of defense and foreign policy studies, talks with Joshua Shifrinson and Marc Trachtenberg about what NATO’s history reveals about its potential future. The dialogue explores aspects that contemporary debates overlook or misunderstand, as well as the Trump administration’s plans for the organization.
Featuring Marc Trachtenberg, Joshua Shifrinson, and Justin Logan
January 30, 2025
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The State of Human Freedom: A Conversation with Ian Vásquez
The newly released Human Freedom Index (HFI) provides a comprehensive overview of human freedom worldwide.
Featuring Ian Vásquez
November 12, 2024
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More Than Just a “Cheap T-Shirt”: Guatemala Textiles
“Cheap T‑shirts” help Americans stretch their budgets and help these Guatemalans—and millions of others like them—escape poverty.
Featuring Scott Lincicome
November 12, 2024
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From Textile Town to Ghost Town to Car Town: West Point, Georgia
Once a textile town hurt by globalization, West Point, Georgia, has been reborn thanks to those same economic forces, boosting thousands of lives along the way.
Featuring Scott Lincicome
November 12, 2024
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Globalization for Fun and Profit: The Digital Gaming Economy
Gamers are the new, fresh faces of digital trade and 21st-century globalization, and they’re part of an industry that today dwarfs music and movies combined.
Featuring Scott Lincicome
November 12, 2024
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Exploring the Real Faces of Globalization
Cato Institute Vice President Scott Lincicome discusses the motivation behind the Faces of Globalization video series and the Defending Globalization project.
Featuring Scott Lincicome
October 9, 2024
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50th Anniversary of Hayek’s Nobel
The Nobel Prize established F.A. Hayek as one of the most important economic and political theorists of the 20th century. Cato scholar Ryan Bourne discusses his legacy.
Featuring Ryan Bourne
July 23, 2024
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The Paper Tiger: Why China Won’t Fulfill Its Potential
While some fear China’s economic and technological dominance, Johan Norberg explains how its increasing authoritarianism and move away from the free market will not only prevent China from becoming rich, but rather risks making it poor again.
Featuring Johan Norberg
April 22, 2024
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The Capitalist Manifesto: Why the Global Free Market Will Save the World
Johan Norberg states the case for capitalism and the role played by the free market in today’s world. A move away from this, he argues, would not only squeeze the growth out of the economy, but also deepen the exclusion of the most vulnerable.
Featuring Johan Norberg
February 21, 2024
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A Conversation with Lawrence H. Summers
As part of the Cato Institute’s Defending Globalization project, Cato Vice President Scott Lincicome spoke with former US Secretary of the Treasury Lawrence H. Summers about the future of globalization and US international economic policy. In this video, Secretary Summers and Lincicome reflect on the successes and failures of the “Washington Consensus,” current threats to further global integration, and the role of US policy in shaping the future of the world economy.
Featuring Lawrence H. Summers and Scott Lincicome
November 28, 2023
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A Conversation with Amb. Robert B. Zoellick
At a launch event for the Cato Institute’s Defending Globalization project, Cato Vice President Scott Lincicome spoke with former U.S. Trade Representative Robert Zoellick about the current state and the future of globalization. In this video, Ambassador Zoellick and Lincicome discuss recent developments in the world economy, evaluate the implications of US trade and industrial policies, and offer some thoughts on ways to promote increased global integration and exchange.
Featuring Robert B. Zoellick
November 8, 2023
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Globalization Creates a Global Neighborhood, Benefiting All
Deirdre McCloskey and Scott Lincicome explore the history and economics of globalization, explain how it increases wealth and living standards worldwide, and debunk persistent concerns about open trade and migration here and abroad.
Featuring Deirdre N. McCloskey and Scott Lincicome
October 24, 2023
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Globalization: A Race to the Bottom—or to the Top?
Cato Vice President Scott Lincicome speaks with Senior Fellow Johan Norberg about Norberg’s new essay for the project, “Globalization: A Race to the Bottom—or to the Top?”
Featuring Johan Norberg and Scott Lincicome
September 13, 2023
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Defending Globalization
Globalization, like any market phenomenon, is imperfect and often disruptive. But the movement of goods, services, people, capital, and ideas across natural or political borders has also produced immeasurable benefits—for the United States and the world—that no other system can match.
Featuring Scott Lincicome