Cato Institute imprint: 32 books
Reviving Economic Growth
Policy Proposals from 51 Leading Experts
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2015
If you could wave a magic wand and make one or two policy or institutional changes to brighten the U.S. economy’s long-term growth prospects, what would you change and why? That was the question asked to the 51 contributors to this volume. These essays originally appeared in conjunction with a conference...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
Published every September in celebration of Constitution Day, the Cato Supreme Court Review brings together leading legal scholars to analyze the most important cases of the Court's most recent term. It is the first scholarly review to appear after the term's end and the only on to critique the court...
The Work Versus Welfare Trade-off: 2018
An Analysis of the Total Level of Welfare Benefits by State
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2013
In 1995, the Cato Institute published a groundbreaking study, The Work Versus Welfare Trade-Off, which estimated the value of the full package of welfare benefits available to a typical recipient in each of the 50 states and the District of Columbia. It found that not only did the value of such benefits...
Money, Markets, and Government
The Next 30 Years
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2013
The 2008-2009 financial crisis and Great Recession have vastly increased the power and scope of the Federal Reserve, and radically changed the financial landscape. This ebook, an edited volume of papers presented at the Cato Institute’s 30th Annual Monetary Conference, examines those changes and considers...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2013
To encourage people everywhere to better understand and appreciate the principles of government that are set forth in America’s founding documents, the Cato Institute published this digital edition of the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution of the United States of America. Can the government...
Jury Nullification
The Evolution of a Doctrine
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2013
The Founding Fathers guaranteed trial by jury three times in the Constitution—more than any other right—since juries can serve as the final check on government’s power to enforce unjust, immoral, or oppressive laws. But in America today, how independent can a jury be? How much power does a jury...
Balanced Budgets, Fiscal Responsibility, and The Constitution
(Cato Public Policy Research Monograph No. 1)
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 1980
In this monograph, Professors Wagner and Tollison examine the important question of whether the United States should adopt a constitutional amendment requiring the government to balance its budget. Arguing that the government should be explicit and responsible about how much it spends and how it...
Bootleggers & Baptists
How Economic Forces and Moral Persuasion Interact to Shape Regulatory Politics
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2014
In Bootleggers & Baptists: How Economic Forces and Moral Persuasion Interact to Shape Regulatory Politics, economists Bruce Yandle and Adam Smith explain how money and morality are often combined in politics to produce arbitrary regulations benefiting cronies, while constraining productive economic activities...
Poverty and Progress
Realities and Myths about Global Poverty
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2013
In his new book, Poverty and Progress: Realities and Myths about Global Poverty, renowned development economist Deepak Lal draws on 50 years of experience around the globe to describe developing-country realities and rectify misguided notions about economic progress. Unique among books that have emerged...
The Inclusive Economy
How to Bring Wealth to America's Poor
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2018
The Inclusive Economy: How to Bring Wealth to America’s Poor energetically challenges the conventional wisdom of both the right and the left that underlies much of the contemporary debate over poverty and welfare policy. Author and national public policy expert Michael Tanner takes to task conservative...
Eco-nomics
What Everyone Should Know about Economics and the Environment
Language: English
Release Date: August 9, 2016
It’s one thing to be passionate about protecting the environment. It’s another to be successful at it. This history of environmentalism includes a constant shift from one concern to another, and many laws have been enacted to clean up pollution or preserve natural beauty. However, many of these laws...
by Flemming Rose
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2014
Journalists face constant intimidation. Whether it takes the extreme form of beheadings, death threats, government censorship or simply political correctness—it casts a shadow over their ability to tell a story.
When the Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten published the cartoons of the prophet...
The Fire Next Door
Mexico's Drug Violence and the Danger to America
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2012
Since the Mexican government initiated a military offensive against its country’s powerful drug cartels in December 2006, some 50,000 people have perished and the drugs continue to flow. In The Fire Next Door, Ted Galen Carpenter boldly conveys the growing horror overtaking Mexico and makes the case...
Aftermath
The Unintended Consequences of Public Policies
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2014
Government policies created for one set of purposes almost always generate additional results that were not part of the original plan. Very often these unintended consequences are seriously adverse, and in some cases are so severe as to render the policy a failure. In Aftermath, noted economist...