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  • November 23, 2007
    Blog
    England’s Free-Market Future?
    No, the title does not refer to possible policy changes if Tories win the next election (after all, that would require a smaller‐​government agenda). Instead, it is a somewhat tongue‐​in‐​cheek reaction to a story in England’s …
    By Daniel J. Mitchell
  • July 6, 2007
    Blog
    Michael Gerson and the Fantasy-Based Community
    In today’s Washington Post, former Bush speechwriter and policy adviser Michael Gerson sees the online role‐​playing game Second Life as a “large‐​scale experiment in libertarianism.” And since the world of Second Life apparently features its share of …
    By Gene Healy
  • June 29, 2007
    Blog
    Heritage — Unhealthy
    … those who are curious, here’s where I see the biggest differences between Cato scholars and Heritage scholars on health policy: The Heritage Foundation’s health policy team generally supports having the government force people to buy health insurance. Cato …
    By Michael F. Cannon
  • June 23, 2007
    Blog
    The Libertarian Case for Free Software
    One of the most interesting trends in tech policy over the last decade has been the emergence of free software as a major force in the computer industry. For example, some of our readers probably use the Mozilla Firefox web …
    By Timothy B. Lee
  • June 15, 2007
    Blog
    Drug War Follies
    Student harassed by school officials for researching drug policy and expressing his opinion. If the drug warriors could install blocking software so as to control web surfing, this page would definitely get blocked.
    By Tim Lynch
  • November 16, 2006
    Blog
    Havighurst on Healthy Competition
    … payments would increase the supply of organs, saving thousands of lives… “Healthy Competition…is a valuable challenge to the health policy community to take health policy debates to a moral plane where consumer welfare and individual freedom are given more …
    By Michael F. Cannon
  • September 10, 2006
    Blog
    New England Journal of Medicine Reviews Crisis of Abundance
    Arnold Relman reviews the Cato Institute’s latest health policy book, Crisis of Abundance by adjunct scholar Arnold Kling, in the latest issue of the New England Journal of Medicine. Dr. Relman is a former editor of the NEJM and …
    By Michael F. Cannon
  • September 7, 2006
    Blog
    College Aid Calculations Don’t Measure Up
    Every other year, the National Center for Public Policy and Higher Education (NCPPHE) – an organization run almost exclusively by politicians and higher education insiders – issues a report called Measuring Up, which typically declares that as a nation we provide far …
    By Neal McCluskey
  • April 26, 2006
    Blog
    Cato Releases Crisis of Abundance
    Today, the Cato Institute released its latest health policy book, Crisis of Abundance: Rethinking How We Pay for Health Care, by Arnold Kling, a man I like to think of as the anti‐​Krugman. Have a look at Kling’s …
    By Michael F. Cannon
  • August 5, 2002
    TechKnowledge
    No. 39
    The HDTV Fiasco Gets Worse: TV Set and Cable Mandates On the Way
    … recognizing they simply cannot afford to keep up this charade. The real question is, how long do we have to wait before this happens and how many more victims will this industrial policy fiasco claim before policymakers finally admit defeat?
    By Adam D. Thierer
  • October 14, 1999
    The Baltimore Sun
    Clinton Errs in Politicizing the Issue of Class Sizes
    … class sizes would be expensive and probably “a waste of money and effort.” The Clinton administration’s reversal of that policy shows why there’s a danger in the federal government using suspect research to support education policy initiatives. Education …
    By Casey J. Lartigue Jr.
  • Winter 1995
    Cato Journal
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    Federalism and Free Trade by Jean Luc-Migue
    CATO JOURNAL with another (e.g., regulatory reform). A policy of free trade, as Migué points out, imposes restraint on government while strengthening, rather than weakening, other means of restraining government power. In his words: Without thepower to closetheir borders …
    By Dwight R. Lee
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