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Peace and Freedom: Foreign Policy for a Constitutional Republic
Ever since the vicious terrorist attack on September 11, American foreign policy and the implications of our nation's long history of military involvement abroad have taken center stage in the world. This book covers American intervention over the past decade or so and provides an instructive review of how the best of intentions often results in a variety of unintended and deadly consequences at home and abroad. Available in September. |
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Copy Fights: The Future of Intellectual Property Rights in the Information Age
Edited by Adam Thierer and Clyde Wayne Crews, Jr., this collection of essays from leaders in technology, copyright and intellectual property fields look at the timeless questions surrounding intellectual property and how they might change with emerging technology in the information age. Featuring selections from Tom W. Bell, John Perry Barlow, Rep. Rick Boucher, Stan Liebowitz, Mitch Glazier, and many more. To purchase the book click here.
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Economic Freedom of the World
Annual Report 2002
The 2002 report, which is based on data from 2000, lists Hong Kong as the freest economy in the world, followed closely by Singapore and the United States. The United Kingdom, Switzerland and New Zealand round out the top five.
This edition of Economic Freedom of the World also includes a preface by Nobel laureate Milton Friedman and is authored by James Gwartney and Robert Lawson, with Chris Edwards, Walter Park, Veronique de Rugy and Smita Wagh. To view the report in PDF format, click here. To purchase the book, click here. |
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James Madison and the Future of Limited Government
Edited by John Samples, Cato's director of the Center for Representative Government, this collection of essays applies Madison's thoughts, ideas and vision to issues and dilemmas of the 21st century. The book features essays from thirteen leading scholars, including Tom G. Palmer, James M. Buchanan, Roger Pilon, Walter Berns and Jacob T. Levy.
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Government Failure: A Primer in Public Choice
When market forces fail us, what are we to do? Who will step in to protect the public interest? The government, right? Wrong.
The romantic view of bureaucrats coming to the rescue confuses the true relationship between economics and politics. Politicians often cite "market failure" as justification for meddling with the economy, but a group of leading scholars show the shortcomings of this view. In Government Failure, these scholars explain the school of study known as "public choice," which uses the tools of economics to understand and evaluate government activity.
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Toward Liberty: The Idea That Is Changing the World
Edited by Cato Executive Vice President David Boaz, Toward Liberty looks at the political philosophy that is sweeping the world. More and more countries are opting for free trade and free markets, and the rule of law. In this collection, scholars and politicians address the fall of communism and apartheid, globalization, school choice, Social Security privatization, technology and personal freedom.
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Exiting the Balkan Thicket
Edited by the Cato Institute's Gary T. Dempsey, Exiting
the Balkan Thicket is a collection of essays reviewing the West's
experiences in Bosnia and Kosovo and provides recommendations on how
the United States can move beyond the status quo and forge a better
balanced and more forward-looking security relationship with its European
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Dependent on D.C.: The Rise of Federal Control Over the Lives of Ordinary Americans
In this important new contribution to the study of American government, economist and historian Charlotte Twight documents both the history of government's growth and the techniques by which politicians and bureaucrats have manipulated the rules of the game to increase their powers and make them more difficult to roll back. In the process, politicians make Americans dependent on government, and more like passive supplicants than active citizens. Twight explains in clear language how Americans have been robbed of their independence. Although written by a scholar, this eye-opening book is intended for informed citizens generally.
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Race to the Top
Swedish Journalist Tomas Larsson takes the reader on a fast-paced, worldwide journey from the slums of Rio to the brothels of Bangkok in this book that shows how access to global markets helps struggling entrepreneurs get ahead. Larsson offers real examples of real people thriving in their communities thanks to the benefits of international markets.
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Against the Dead Hand: The Uncertain Struggle for Global Capitalism
Mixing historical narrative, thought-provoking arguments, and on-the-scene reporting and interviews, Brink Lindsey, director of the Cato Institute's Center for Trade Policy Studies shows how the world economy has grown up amidst the wreckage of the old regime -- detailing how that wreckage constrains the present and obscures the future. He conveys a clearer picture of globalization's current state than the current conventional wisdom, providing a framework for anticipating the future direction of the world economy.
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Medicare's Midlife Crisis
This new book by Institute for Health Freedom President Sue Blevins looks at the whole of Medicare, from the political maneuvering and misleading assertions that got the original program enacted to the funding crisis, coverage gaps and bureaucratic problems Medicare still faces today.
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The Transfer Society
How much money do Americans spend to influence the distribution of wealth? According to the authors, a conservative estimate would be more than $2,000 for every man, woman and child in America. Nobel laureate Prof. James Buchanan calls The Transfer Society "a courageous attempt to measure the waste of social value involved in securing and preventing transfers, privately and publicly."
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Culture and Enterprise
How does culture affect the economy? This new book by Don Lavoie and Emily Chamlee-Wright examines markets as a dynamic and integral part of our
culture. Markets aren't merely number and measurements, they argue.
Rather, they're "filled with the drama of human activity," and need to be
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The Precautionary Principle
The "precautionary principle" has long been the dominant paradigm in the
field of environmental risk assessment. "Better safe than sorry," or
"first, do no harm" are invoked to stifle new technologies such as
genetically modified crops, to ban effective pesticides such as DDT, or to
stunt industry growth to prevent global warming. In his innovative new
book, The Precautionay Principle: A Critical Appraisal of Environmental Risk Assessment, Indur Goklany suggests that policies aimed at protecting the environment in these three areas are in fact bringing far more harm than good. |
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Putting 'Defense' Back into U.S.
Defense Policy: Rethinking U.S. Security in the Post-Cold War World
In this new book, Cato director of defense policy studies Ivan
Eland questions some core assumptions of American foreign policy
and military intervention around the world. He then outlines a security
policy more appropriate to the sober realities of the post-Cold War
era. Click here
to view this title and to purchase this book in the Cato bookstore. |
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Junk Science Judo
In 12 easy-to-understand lessons, author and Cato adjunct scholar
Steven J. Milloy walks you through
the modern phenomenon of "junk science," the common practice today
of manipulating facts and statistics to foster health scares and generate
media hype. Click here to visit
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The 2002 Publications Catalogue