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  7. The Cato Institute shared Cato On Campus's photo.
    January 22
    Every summer the Institute for Humane Studies hosts an exciting, competitive, eye opening, and career advancing internship: the Koch Summer Fellowship Program. Find out more details here: http://www.theihs.org/koch-summer-fellow-program

    A select number of KSFP participants can be placed in various departments at Cato.
    Photo: Every summer the Institute for Humane Studies hosts an exciting, competitive, eye opening, and career advancing internship: the Koch Summer Fellowship Program. Find out more details here: http://www.theihs.org/koch-summer-fellow-program A select number of KSFP participants can be placed in various departments at Cato.
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    January 22
    Monday marked the third anniversary of the Citizens United Supreme Court free speech ruling. Contrary to many of the claims, here's a short video detailing the facts of the case.
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  9. The Cato Institute
    January 19
    Despite huge and ongoing budget deficits, some policymakers are proposing to increase federal spending on infrastructure.

    President Obama, for example, has called for passage of a $50 billion plan for new infrastructure investment. The pre...sident and other leaders believe that more federal spending on roads, rail, and other assets would boost growth and create jobs.

    A new Cato bulletin argues that instead of piling on more federal spending, we should devolve federal infrastructure activities to the states, where local businesses and entrepreneurs can help America solve its mobility and congestion challenges: http://www.cato.org/publications/tax-budget-bulletin/infrastructure-investment-state-local-private-responsibility    See More
    Photo: Despite huge and ongoing budget deficits, some policymakers are proposing to increase federal spending on infrastructure. President Obama, for example, has called for passage of a $50 billion plan for new infrastructure investment. The president and other leaders believe that more federal spending on roads, rail, and other assets would boost growth and create jobs. A new Cato bulletin argues that instead of piling on more federal spending, we should devolve federal infrastructure activities to the states, where local businesses and entrepreneurs can help America solve its mobility and congestion challenges: http://www.cato.org/publications/tax-budget-bulletin/infrastructure-investment-state-local-private-responsibility
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  10. The Cato Institute
    January 18
    Need something to read for inauguration weekend? Get Gene Healy's new e-book, False Idol: Barack Obama and the Continuing Cult of the Presidency, for only $1.99 with the code "WINTER13": http://store.cato.org/false-idol-barack-obama-continuing-cult-presidency-digital

    Sharply focused and rigorously researched, False Idol is a highly compelling examination of both the Obama administration and our fixation on the fable of being led, comforted, and delivered by a presidential savior.
    Photo: Need something to read for inauguration weekend? Get Gene Healy's new e-book, False Idol: Barack Obama and the Continuing Cult of the Presidency, for only $1.99 with the code "WINTER13": http://store.cato.org/false-idol-barack-obama-continuing-cult-presidency-digital Sharply focused and rigorously researched, False Idol is a highly compelling examination of both the Obama administration and our fixation on the fable of being led, comforted, and delivered by a presidential savior.
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  11. The Cato Institute
    January 17
    How much did Obama, Romney, and Johnson spend per vote in the 2012 election cycle? Find out here: http://www.cato.org/blog/dollars-vote-presidential-election
    Photo: How much did Obama, Romney, and Johnson spend per vote in the 2012 election cycle? Find out here: http://www.cato.org/blog/dollars-vote-presidential-election
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    January 16
    "As the burden of government spending increases, this creates an ever-growing incentive for more and more people to figure out ways of riding in the wagon while simultaneously imposing higher and higher costs on those pulling the wagon. As we see in Greece, that formula doesn't end well."
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    January 16
    Two Cato Events Live Streaming at 12:00 PM ET: "Failing Law Schools" and "Policy Events in the Digital Age."
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  16. The Cato Institute
    January 15
    At Cato Unbound, Derek Khanna argues that copyright was never intended to stand in perpetuity, yet that is in effect what we have for a large number of works today. Copyright's original purpose was not to compensate content creators, but to... promote the arts and sciences, as explained in the Constitution. Returning to that aim, says Khanna, should entail shorter copyright terms, which permit future reuses of creative content.

    Read more: http://www.cato-unbound.org/2013/01/07/derek-khanna/the-way-forward-on-copyright-reform/    See More
    Photo: At Cato Unbound, Derek Khanna argues that copyright was never intended to stand in perpetuity, yet that is in effect what we have for a large number of works today. Copyright's original purpose was not to compensate content creators, but to promote the arts and sciences, as explained in the Constitution. Returning to that aim, says Khanna, should entail shorter copyright terms, which permit future reuses of creative content. Read more: http://www.cato-unbound.org/2013/01/07/derek-khanna/the-way-forward-on-copyright-reform/
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    January 13
    "As the size and power of government increase, we can expect more of society’s resources to be directed toward influencing government."
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  22. The Cato Institute
    January 11
    Cato's Mark Calabria makes the cover of National Review calling for an end to bank bailouts: https://www.nationalreview.com/nrd/articles/337357/end-bailouts
    Photo: Cato's Mark Calabria makes the cover of National Review calling for an end to bank bailouts: https://www.nationalreview.com/nrd/articles/337357/end-bailouts
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  24. The Cato Institute
    January 11
    Cato Chairman Robert A. Levy was the organizer and financier behind District of Columbia v. Heller, the Supreme Court Case that established the Second Amendment as affirming an individual right to gun ownership.

    Levy discusses gun rights after the Newtown shooting and where he disagrees with the NRA on gun regulations in today's Washington Post: http://j.mp/UUI1LO
    Photo: Cato Chairman Robert A. Levy was the organizer and financier behind District of Columbia v. Heller, the Supreme Court Case that established the Second Amendment as affirming an individual right to gun ownership. Levy discusses gun rights after the Newtown shooting and where he disagrees with the NRA on gun regulations in today's Washington Post: http://j.mp/UUI1LO
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    January 10
    Learn more about the late Nobel Prize winning economist and Cato senior fellow James M. Buchanan at Libertarianism.org:
    We are saddened to report that James M. Buchanan, one of the founders of public choice theory and recipient of the 1986 Nobel Prize in Economics, has passed away.

    Buchanan will be remembered for his observation that people aren't magically transformed into all-caring beings when they gain political power and his insistence that imperfect market systems not be compared to idealized government systems in economics. Public choice theory revolutionized both the fields of economics and political science by applying the principles of rational self-interest to explain why politicians act they way they do.

    Learn more about Buchanan and the theory he helped found here:
    http://www.libertarianism.org/people/james-m-buchanan
    Photo: We are saddened to report that James M. Buchanan, one of the founders of public choice theory and recipient of the 1986 Nobel Prize in Economics, has passed away. Buchanan will be remembered for his observation that people aren't magically transformed into all-caring beings when they gain political power and his insistence that imperfect market systems not be compared to idealized government systems in economics. Public choice theory revolutionized both the fields of economics and political science by applying the principles of rational self-interest to explain why politicians act they way they do. Learn more about Buchanan and the theory he helped found here: http://www.libertarianism.org/people/james-m-buchanan
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  26. The Cato Institute
    January 10
    Economists since the time of Adam Smith have pointed to the strong relationship between prosperity and open markets. More economic freedom is indeed associated with greater wealth, higher growth, and improvements in the whole range of human development indicators.

    At a time when India has benefited from sustained high growth as a result of liberal reforms, it is important to measure the diverse levels of economic freedom from state to state, and highlight the positive association between increases in economic freedom and economic growth.

    • Economic Freedom of the States of India 2012 Report: http://www.cato.org/economic-freedom-states-india
    Photo: Economists since the time of Adam Smith have pointed to the strong relationship between prosperity and open markets. More economic freedom is indeed associated with greater wealth, higher growth, and improvements in the whole range of human development indicators. At a time when India has benefited from sustained high growth as a result of liberal reforms, it is important to measure the diverse levels of economic freedom from state to state, and highlight the positive association between increases in economic freedom and economic growth. • Economic Freedom of the States of India 2012 Report: http://www.cato.org/economic-freedom-states-india
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    January 9
    After eleven years of war in Afghanistan, it's once again time to take stock of what the United States has achieved there. Malou Innocent offers her thoughts in today's Cato podcast:
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  30. The Cato Institute
    January 9
    James M. Buchanan, a Cato Institute distinguished senior fellow and Nobel Prize winning economist widely known for his work in the field of public choice theory, has passed away. May he rest in peace.

    "James M. Buchanan, RIP," by David Boaz - http://www.cato.org/blog/james-m-buchanan-rip

    "James M. Buchanan (1919–2013), Friend of Liberty," by James A. Dorn - http://www.cato.org/blog/james-m-buchanan-1919-2013-friend-liberty

    Cato Profile: http://www.cato.org/people/james-buchanan

    Biography: http://www.libertarianism.org/people/james-m-buchanan

    Collected Works: http://www.econlib.org/library/Buchanan/buchCContents.html
    Photo: James M. Buchanan, a Cato Institute distinguished senior fellow and Nobel Prize winning economist widely known for his work in the field of public choice theory, has passed away. May he rest in peace. "James M. Buchanan, RIP," by David Boaz - http://www.cato.org/blog/james-m-buchanan-rip "James M. Buchanan (1919–2013), Friend of Liberty," by James A. Dorn - http://www.cato.org/blog/james-m-buchanan-1919-2013-friend-liberty Cato Profile: http://www.cato.org/people/james-buchanan Biography: http://www.libertarianism.org/people/james-m-buchanan Collected Works: http://www.econlib.org/library/Buchanan/buchCContents.html
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  31. The Cato Institute
    January 8 near Washington, DC
    Despite the United States’ focus on the Middle East and the Islamic world for the past decade, the most important international political developments in the coming years are likely to happen in Asia. The main factor driving Washington’s in...terest in the region is the growing economic and military power of the People’s Republic of China.

    In a new study, Cato scholar Justin Logan examines the U.S. foreign policy implications of China’s growing power and influence: http://www.cato.org/publications/policy-analysis/china-america-pivot-asia    See More
    Photo: Despite the United States’ focus on the Middle East and the Islamic world for the past decade, the most important international political developments in the coming years are likely to happen in Asia. The main factor driving Washington’s interest in the region is the growing economic and military power of the People’s Republic of China. In a new study, Cato scholar Justin Logan examines the U.S. foreign policy implications of China’s growing power and influence: http://www.cato.org/publications/policy-analysis/china-america-pivot-asia
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  32. The Cato Institute
    January 7 near Washington, DC
    President Obama on Monday nominated former GOP Sen. Chuck Hagel as the next Secretary of Defense, replacing the retiring Leon Panetta. Neoconservatives are in an uproar over the selection. Cato scholar Justin Logan suggests that the pending... battle over Hagel’s nomination could be a “perestroika moment” in the American foreign and defense policy debate. “If Hagel survives this process,” argues Logan, “it will show that you can stare down the neocons and live to tell the tale.”

    Read more: http://www.cato.org/blog/why-americans-should-care-about-hagel-nomination    See More
    Photo: President Obama on Monday nominated former GOP Sen. Chuck Hagel as the next Secretary of Defense, replacing the retiring Leon Panetta. Neoconservatives are in an uproar over the selection. Cato scholar Justin Logan suggests that the pending battle over Hagel’s nomination could be a “perestroika moment” in the American foreign and defense policy debate. “If Hagel survives this process,” argues Logan, “it will show that you can stare down the neocons and live to tell the tale.” Read more: http://www.cato.org/blog/why-americans-should-care-about-hagel-nomination
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