November 21, 2008
Cato Institute Policy Perspectives 2008
11:00 am - 2:00 pm
Cato City Seminar
Waldorf-Astoria, 301 Park Avenue, New York, NY
Featuring Jeffrey A. Miron, senior lecturer in economics at Harvard University, and Tucker Carlson, correspondent for MSNBC.
November 22, 2008
Reflections of a Political Economist: Selected Articles on Government Policies and Processes
5:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Cato Reception
Featuring William Niskanen, Chairman Emeritus
and Distinguished Senior Economist, The Cato Institute
November 24, 2008
How Nations Prosper: Economic Freedom and Doing Business around the World
12:00 pm
Cato Book Forum
Featuring James Gwartney, and Robert Lawson, Coauthors of, Economic Freedom of the World:2008 Annual Report (Fraser Institute and Cato Institute, 2008); with Simeon Djankov, Creator, "Doing Business" (World Bank, 2008); moderated by Ian Vasquez, Director, Center for Global Liberty and Prosperity, Cato Institute
November 24, 2008
Gun Control on Trial
4:00 pm
Cato Book Forum
Featuring the author, Brian Doherty,
Senior Editor, Reason Magazine,
with comments by Christopher Rhee,
Partner, Arnold & Porter. Moderated by
Tim Lynch, Director, Project on Criminal Justice, Cato Institute
December 1, 2008
The Price of Everything: A Parable of Possibility and Prosperity
12:00 pm
Cato Book Forum
Featuring the author
Russell Roberts, Professor of Economics, George Mason University; with comments by Nick Gillespie, Editor, Reason.tv and Reason.com
December 2, 2008
Whither the Amazon?
12:00 pm
Cato Policy Forum
Featuring Blairo Maggi, Governor of Mato Grosso, Brazil; Roger Sedjo, Senior Fellow, Resources for the Future; Moderated by Jerry Taylor, Cato Institute
December 3, 2008
Cato Institute Policy Perspectives 2008
11:00 am - 2:00 pm
Cato City Seminar
The Drake, 140 East Walton Place, Chicago, IL
Featuring Charles Murray, W. H. Brady Scholar, American Enterprise Institute; Robert A. Levy, Chairman, Cato Institute; and Chip Mellor, President and General Counsel, Institute for Justice.
December 3, 2008
The Financial Crisis: A Market View
7:00 pm - 8:30 pm
Cato Reception
Park Lane Mews Hotel
December 5, 2008
Free to Booze: The 75th Anniversary of the Repeal of Prohibition
3:30 pm
Cato Policy Forum
Featuring Michael Lerner, author of Dry Manhattan: Prohibition in New York City; Glen Whitman, author of Strange Brew: Alcohol and Government Monopoly; Asheesh Agarwal, Former Assistant Director of the Federal Trade Commission's Office of Policy Planning; and Radley Balko, Senior Editor, Reason. Moderated by Brandon Arnold, Cato Institute.
December 11, 2008
Afghanistan Seven Years Later
11:00 am
Cato Policy Forum
Featuring The Honorable Said T. Jawad,
Ambassador of Afghanistan to the United States; Akbar Ahmed, Professor of Islamic Studies at American University; Caroline Wadhams, Senior Policy Analyst at the Center for American Progress; Ted Galen Carpenter, Vice President for Defense and Foreign Policy Studies, Cato Institute; Moderated by
Malou Innocent, Foreign Policy Analyst, Cato Institute;
January 12-13, 2009
Shaping the New Administration’s Counterterrorism Strategy
Cato Conference
March 4-8, 2009
21st Annual Benefactor Summit
The Fairmont Mayakoba, Riviera Maya, Mexico
By invitation only.
July 26-31, 2009
Cato University
Cato Conference
Rancho Bernardo Inn, San Diego, CA
October 8-11, 2009
Cato Club 200
Four Seasons Biltmore Santa Barbara
By Invitation only.