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  • November 1, 2010
    Blog
    Free Deirdre McCloskey E-Book from University of Chicago Press
    … Dignity: Why Economics Can’t Explain the Modern World (2010), in last month’s Cato Unbound. Back in 2006, Cato Policy Report gave a short summary of McCloskey’s argument in The Bourgeois Virtues. Her argument as I understand it …
    By Jason Kuznicki
  • April 3, 2010
    Blog
    Sorry — Ravitch Not Ridiculous
    … Ravitch on school choice, and my review of her latest book makes clear that I am dubious about her various policy prescriptions. But, heck, we agree on much about what ails the No Child Left Behind Act, and her thoughts …
    By Neal McCluskey
  • February 2, 2010
    Blog
    The College Earnings Premium — Why It’s Meaningless
    … student, even those pursuing precisely the same degrees. For a college earnings premium figure to be of any value to policymakers or prospective college students, it would be necessary to break it down by field and by student characteristics. What …
    By Andrew J. Coulson
  • March 6, 2009
    Blog
    Len Nichols Is Wrong: This Debate Is about Socialized Medicine
    … old dispute about “socialized medicine” and one that has already been settled in the minds of a critical mass of policymakers. A couple of things strike me about his post. First, this debate is obviously about socialized medicine, and to …
    By Michael F. Cannon
  • November 7, 2008
    United Press International
    Contractors and Obama
    … year inveterate PSC critic Jeremy Scahill blasted Obama for being too sympathetic toward contractors. He reported that a senior foreign policy adviser of Obama’s said that if elected, Obama would not “rule out” using private security companies like Blackwater …
    By David Isenberg
  • September 10, 2008
    Blog
    Dana Goldman Digs the Anti-Universal Coverage Club Scene
    … Radiology at UCLA.” He also started a peer‐​reviewed journal or something. So, not exactly a slouch in the health policy/​economics realm. In a contribution to Cato Unbound a little while back, Goldman wrote the following, which qualifies him …
    By Michael F. Cannon
  • November 28, 2007
    Blog
    America’s Hall Monitor
    … good for American liberty, among them his 1980s prosecutorial “reign of terror” against Wall Street, his unhinged approach to foreign policy, and an authoritarian streak that ought to disturb civil libertarians. But for a shorter indictment, it’s hard to …
    By Gene Healy
  • November 1, 2007
    Blog
    Medical Marijuana
    … here. More here. I should also note that after California voters approved a medical marijuana referendum in 1996, Bill Clinton and Janet Reno vowed to enforce the federal law. They stepped up the DEA raids and Bush continued the policy.
    By Tim Lynch
  • July 24, 2007
    Blog
    ER Doc Reviews Crisis of Abundance
    … a lucid writer and down‐​to‐​earth Ph.D. economist from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Really. …Kling concludes with policy ideas born of intelligent analysis and economic expertise…He suggests consumer‐​oriented, market‐​based, rational solutions that deal with …
    By Michael F. Cannon
  • February 13, 2007
    News Releases
    Randal O’Toole Joins Cato Institute as Senior Fellow
    … policy. O’Toole’s research on below‐​cost timber sales and forest economics had a major influence on Forest Service policy in the 1980s and 1990s. It also persuaded him that government solutions to environmental problems usually created more problems …
  • September 28, 2006
    Blog
    Why Is a Good Teacher Like a Needle in a Haystack?
    … selection, surely school administrators go out of their way to hire the best, right? Not so, I discovered! My new policy analysis, Giving Kids the Chaff: How to Find and Keep the Teachers We Need, reports that administrators seem to …
    By Marie Gryphon
  • September 27, 2006
    TCSdaily.com
    Neuro Wine in Old Bottles
    … of the economists Cassidy interviews are stuck in a conceptual quagmire about the relationship between reason, emotion, and paternalistic public policy. Cassidy, a good journalist, inherits their confusion. There is, in fact, nothing in the research Cassidy reviews that helps …
    By Will Wilkinson
  • March 20, 2006
    News Releases
    Digital Millennium Copyright Act Hinders Innovation
    … to cut and paste text on Adobe eBook? In a just released study for the Cato Institute, Tim Lee, a policy analyst at the Show‐​Me Institute, answers these questions and more. The problem at the root of all of …
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