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Defending Globalization

Globalization today faces renewed attention—and criticism. Like any market phenomenon, the free movement of people, things, money, and ideas across natural or political borders is imperfect and often disruptive. But it has also produced undeniable benefits—for the United States and the world—that no other system can match. Defending Globalization is a new Cato Institute multimedia project on all aspects of the fundamentally human activity that we call “globalization.”

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Centers of Progress: 40 Cities That Changed the World

Where does progress happen? The story of civilization is the story of the city. It is cities that have created and defined the modern world by acting as the sites of pivotal advances in culture, politics, science, technology, and more. There is no question that certain places, at certain times in history, have contributed disproportionately toward making the world a better place. This book tells the story of forty of those places. Come journey through these pages to some of history’s greatest centers of progress.

Meet Our Experts

Swaminathan S. Anklesaria Aiyar

Research Fellow, Center for Global Liberty and Prosperity

Mustafa Akyol

Senior Fellow, Center for Global Liberty and Prosperity

Doug Bandow

Senior Fellow

David J. Bier

Director, Immigration Studies

Gabriela Calderon de Burgos

Fellow in Latin American Studies

James A. Dorn

Senior Fellow Emeritus

Chelsea Follett

Policy Analyst and Managing Editor of HumanProgress.org

Colin Grabow

Associate Director, Herbert A. Stiefel Center for Trade Policy Studies

Eric Gomez

Senior Fellow

Daniel Griswold
Adjunct Scholar
Steve H. Hanke

Former Senior Fellow

Gene Healy

Senior Vice President for Policy

Jon Hoffman

Research Fellow

Scott Lincicome

Vice President, General Economics and Stiefel Trade Policy Center, Cato Institute

John Mueller

Senior Fellow

Johan Norberg

Senior Fellow

Alex Nowrasteh

Vice President for Economic and Social Policy Studies

Clark Packard

Research Fellow

Daniel Raisbeck

Policy Analyst

Joshua Shifrinson

Non-resident Senior Fellow

Marian L. Tupy

Senior Fellow, Center for Global Liberty and Prosperity

Ian Vásquez

Vice President for International Studies and Director, Center for Global Liberty and Prosperity

Justin Logan
Director of Defense and Foreign Policy Studies
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Cato Project on Jones Act Reform

The Cato Institute aims to shake up this status quo by shining a spotlight on the Jones Act’s myriad negative impacts and exposing its alleged benefits as entirely hollow. By systematically laying bare the truth about this nearly 100-year-old failed law, the Cato Institute Project on Jones Act Reform is meant to raise public awareness and lay the groundwork for its repeal or reform.