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US-EU Free Trade Agreement: Recipe for Growth or Road to Nowhere?
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A Populist Capture of the Organization of American States?
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Taxes and Economic Growth: Understanding the Effects
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The Euro Crisis: Can Deeper Integration Save the European Union and the Common Currency?
The euro crisis has exposed deep structural flaws in the functioning of the common currency and put pressure on the cohesion of the European Union as a whole. Stagnant growth, and rising unemployment and public dissatisfaction are threatening to undermine the European project. Conventional wisdom holds that deeper political integration is needed in order to preserve and strengthen the European Union. However, an increasing number of analysts argue that current problems in Europe are symptoms of a unification process gone too far. Frits Bolkestein and Luke Coffey will discuss the reform proposals and identify powers that are currently exercised in Brussels but could be repatriated to the member states. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
In Search of the City on a Hill: The Making and Unmaking of an American Myth
Richard Gamble's book, In Search of the City on a Hill: the Making and Unmaking of an American Myth, helps make sense of exceptionalism's evolution. Gamble traces the “city on a hill” metaphor, from Puritan leader John Winthrop, who took it from the gospels, to its reincarnation in the 20th century as an explicitly political idea at the heart of foreign policy debates.Historians Walter McDougall, the author of Promised Land, Crusader State: The American Encounter with the World since 1776, and Derek Leebaert, the author of Magic and Mayhem: The Delusions of American Foreign Policy from Korea to Afghanistan, will provide commentary. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Beyond the Individual Mandate: The Ongoing Legal Challenges to Obamacare
The Supreme Court's ruling last June was only the end of the beginning as far as Obamacare litigation is concerned. Myriad lawsuits unrelated to the individual mandate have continued and — following Nancy Pelosi's advice to dig deeper into what's in the law — others have been filed based on new developments. Issues range from employer mandates to the constitutionality of Chief Justice John Roberts's health insurance nonpurchase tax, from infringement on religious beliefs to a separation-of-powers challenge against the Independent Payment Advisory Board. We're even starting to see lawsuits regarding the implementation of the law, as a host of agencies promulgate rules that often go beyond even the legislation's expansive text. We will bring the lawyers leading two of these cases here to discuss them — one of whom is an intellectual godfather of a fascinating challenge to new IRS regulations. Please join us to learn what we can expect from this new round of Obamacare litigation. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Conscious Capitalism: Liberating the Heroic Spirit of Business
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How Should Schools Respond to America’s Growing Diversity?
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The Pivot to Asia and the Future of U.S.-China Relations
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A Rational Response to the Privacy 'Crisis'
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Campaign Finance after Citizens United: What Happened? What Now? Panel 2: The Future of Campaign Finance Regulation
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Campaign Finance after Citizens United: What Happened? What Now?Panel 1: After Citizens United: Did Elections Change?
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Madmen, Intellectuals and Academic Scribblers
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Failing Law Schools
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Living with Guns: A Liberal's Case for the Second Amendment
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Unlearning Liberty: Campus Censorship and the End of American Debate
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Copyright Unbalanced: From Incentive to Excess
The Constitution gives Congress the power to establish copyrights “to promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts.” This would require Congress to engage in a delicate balancing act, giving authors enough protection to motivate their creation of expressive works, but not so much that it hampers innovation and access to information. Copyright Unbalanced makes the case that Congress has not struck that balance well and that over the last half-century, Congress has routinely shifted the balance in only one direction — away from public access and freedom and toward greater and deeper privileges for organized special interests.The book argues that conservatives and libertarians, who are naturally suspicious of big government, should be skeptical of an ever-expanding copyright system. And they should be skeptical of the recent trend toward criminal prosecution of even minor copyright infringements, of the growing use of civil asset forfeiture in copyright enforcement, and of attempts to regulate the Internet and electronics in the name of piracy eradication. Join us for an interesting and challenging discussion of copyright and its enforcement. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Lessons from Colombia's War on Drugs
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What's New in State Tax Policy? Pro-Growth Reforms vs. Special-Interest Breaks
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War Generation: How Will a Culture of Permanent War Impact America's Future?
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Wounds That Will Not Heal: Affirmative Action and Our Continuing Racial Divide
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Cato Institute 30th Annual Monetary Conference: Panel 2: The Limits of Monetary Policy
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Cato Institute 30th Annual Monetary Conference: Panel 1: Avoiding the Next Crisis
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Cato Institute 30th Annual Monetary Conference: Welcome Remarks and Keynote Address
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Cato Institute 30th Annual Monetary Conference: Closing Address
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Cato Institute 30th Annual Monetary Conference: Panel 4: Capital Freedom for China?
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Cato Institute 30th Annual Monetary Conference: Panel 3: Lessons from the Euro Crisis
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Cato Institute 30th Annual Monetary Conference: Luncheon Address
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The Fire Next Door: Mexico's Drug Violence and the Danger to America
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Libertarianism: What Everyone Needs to Know
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Is Judicial Restraint the Proper Response to Judicial Activism?
In his new book Cosmic Constitutional Theory: Why Americans Are Losing Their Inalienable Right to Self-Governance, Judge Wilkinson strongly criticizes the liberal "living Constitution" movement, but also takes issue with many libertarians and other legal theorists who have successfully urged the Supreme Court to apply closer constitutional scrutiny to government action in areas such as eminent domain and gun control. Responding to Judge Wilkinson, and defending a tradition of vigorous judicial protection of constitutional liberty, will be Roger Pilon, founder and director of Cato's Center for Constitutional Studies. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Millennials and the Welfare State: Burden or Blessing?
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Human Capitalism: How Economic Growth Has Made Us Smarter — and More Unequal
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The Financial Crisis and the Free-Market Cure: Why Pure Capitalism Is the World Economy's Only Hope
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Africa's Third Liberation: The New Search for Prosperity and Jobs
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Rome's Last Citizen: The Life and Legacy of Cato, Mortal Enemy of Caesar
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Why Some Firms Thrive While Others Fail: Governance and Management Lessons from the Crisis
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The Real Effects of Sequestration
The Budget Control Act passed by Congress directs that on January 2, 2013, the Obama administration must cut the defense budget by at least $55 billion and cut the same amount from domestic discretionary spending. Some observers assert that such reductions will damage the economy and increase unemployment. Even many who view excessive government spending as economically counterproductive oppose Pentagon cuts. These concerns are overblown, Cato scholars explain. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
The Case against the Davis-Bacon Act: 54 Reasons for Repeal
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Could Oklahoma's New Lawsuit Strike a Fatal Blow to Obamacare?
Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt has filed a lawsuit alleging the Obama administration is violating the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act and imposing illegal taxes in states such as Oklahoma. As Jonathan H. Adler and Michael F. Cannon detail in their forthcoming Health Matrix article, "Taxation Without Representation: The Illegal IRS Rule to Expand Tax Credits under the PPACA," the PPACA cannot function without state buy-in. The Obama administration's response to state push-back has been to rewrite the statute by imposing, on both employers and individuals, taxes that Congress never authorized. Pruitt is challenging the IRS rule that imposes those illegal taxes. Supporters and opponents agree the PPACA's "entire structure" depends on the IRS's interpretation of the statute, and that this dispute "could be a fatal blow to Obamacare." Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
The Libertarian Roots of the Tea Party
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How China Became Capitalist
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Give Me Regulation: From Samuel Insull to James E. Rogers in the Electric Power Industry
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The Economic Effects of Military Spending
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Is IPAB Medicare Reform? Or Just Another Stop on the Road to Serfdom?
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Europe's Crisis and the Welfare State: Lessons for the United States: Closing Address
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Europe's Crisis and the Welfare State: Lessons for the United States: Panel 4: Lessons for the United States
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Europe's Crisis and the Welfare State: Lessons for the United States: Panel 3: Case Studies: What Works — What Doesn't
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Europe's Crisis and the Welfare State: Lessons for the United States: Luncheon Address
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Europe's Crisis and the Welfare State: Lessons for the United States: Panel 2: Is Austerity the Answer?
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