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  • February 5, 2009
    Blog
    Does Karen Davenport Owe Me $40?
    At the National Medical Association’s 2008 Mazique Symposium in Atlanta, I made a bet with Karen Davenport. Davenport is a lovely woman, the director of health policy at the Center for American Progress, a prominent member of the Church …
    By Michael F. Cannon
  • January 30, 2009
    Blog
    Obama’s First Broken Campaign Promise
    Over on the Tech Liberation Front blog, I’ve been following the Obama administration’s early steps on transparency, a subject we dove into at a December Cato policy forum called “Just Give Us the Data!” President Obama committed to …
    By Jim Harper
  • December 17, 2008
    Investor’s Business Daily
    Bush and Obama Opt for Corporatism over Freewheeling Capitalist Economy
    Is Barack Obama a socialist? Not really. Is George W. Bush a free marketer? Not hardly. In fact, right now they both seem to be pursuing policies that are neither socialist nor laissez‐​faire but rather corporatist. The Bush administration …
    By David Boaz
  • July 31, 2008
    Blog
    Milton Friedman on Drug Prohibition
    Since it’s Milton Friedman’s birthday today, take a moment to watch this brief video clip. It is an interview conducted by our friends at the Marijuana Policy Project shortly before Dr. Friedman passed away. For related Cato work …
    By Tim Lynch
  • April 16, 2008
    News Releases
    U.S. Has Not Yet Seen True Market-Based Reform in Education
    Media Contact: (202) 789‑5200 WASHINGTON–Most U.S. school choice studies to date have made mistaken and insupportable claims about market reform in education, finds a Policy Analysis released by the Cato Institute today.“The most intensely studied [school …
  • April 11, 2007
    News Releases
    “Science” of Happiness Fails to Measure Up
    … Americans’ life satisfaction, assert happiness researchers. In “In Pursuit of Happiness Research: Is It Reliable? What Does It Imply for Policy?,” one of the first systematic analyses of happiness research from a libertarian perspective, Cato policy analyst and managing editor …
  • July 26, 2006
    Blog
    The Same Problem Up North
    A report on the state of Canadian higher education has our northern neighbors in a bit of an uproar. It seems that to accumulate political support, policymakers in Canada have been taking college aid originally intended for truly poor Canadians …
    By Neal McCluskey
  • July 14, 2006
    Blog
    More on McCloskey’s Bourgeois Virtues
    Following up on Radley’s mention of Deirdre McCloskey’s article on bourgeois virtues, here’s what I just posted at the Guardian’s “Comment is free” site: At Cato Policy Report the brilliant economist Deirdre McCloskey of the University …
    By David Boaz
  • June 1, 2006
    Blog
    Toward a Liberal Federalism?
    Apropos of the Marriage Amendment issue: one of the happy accidents of the Bush administration is that the president has been so determined to centralize social policy in the United States that he’s actually made some liberals appreciate the …
    By Gene Healy
  • June 10, 2004
    Cato.org
    The Reagan Renaissance
    The relentlessly partisan New York Times could not resist using Ronald Reagan’s death as a tawdry opportunity to denigrate his enduring, internationally emulated accomplishments in economic policy. The editors concluded Reagan merely “profited from good timing and good luck …
    By Alan Reynolds
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