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Stay Off the Fast Track: Why Trade Promotion Authority Is Wrong for the Trans-Pacific Partnership
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Featuring David J. Armor, Professor Emeritus of Public Policy, George Mason University; Deborah A. Phillips, Professor of Psychology, Georgetown University; Grover J. “Russ” Whitehurst, Director, Brown Center on Education Policy, Brookings Institution; and William T. Gormley, University Professor of Public Policy, Georgetown University; moderated by Neal P. McCluskey, Associate Director, Center for Educational Freedom, Cato Institute.
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In this issue of Regulation, Christina Sandefur and Timothy Sandefur argue that, in the pursuit of their goals, Obamacare’s proponents have done long-lasting damage to the constitutional order. Also in this issue, Eric A. Posner and E. Glen Weyl make the case for using cost-benefit analysis for financial regulations.
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The Obama administration’s new initiative on school discipline aims to roll back one discredited policy, zero tolerance, by re-energizing another, disparate-impact analysis.
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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 new ebook examines those changes and considers how the links between money, markets, and government may evolve in the future.
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Timothy Sandefur’s insightful new book documents a vital, forgotten truth: our Constitution was written to secure liberty, not to empower democracy. Yet today’s overemphasis on democracy has helped expand the scope of government power at the expense of individual rights. Now, more than ever, the Declaration of Independence should be the framework for interpreting our fundamental law. It is the conscience of the Constitution.
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 pocket-size edition.
It’s time for America to accept the truth: the government can’t fix the economy because the government wrecked the economy. This book gives us the tools, the inspiration—and the cure.
An H. L. Mencken Research Fellow at the Cato Institute, P.J. O’Rourke has reported on the inner workings of the U.S. government, explained the global economy, and written on the American automobile industry. At this Cato Book Forum, he tackles the big, broad problems stemming from the generation that, for better or worse, changed everything – covered in his new book The Baby Boom: How It Got That Way…And It Wasn’t My Fault…And I’ll Never Do It Again – his first book of all new, previously unpublished material since 2007.
