A Great Place To Learn About Great Ideas
The Cato Institute has announced it’s 2009 Cato University program:
Cato University, the Cato Institute’s premier educational event of the year, is right around the corner!
On June 26-31 in Rancho Bernardo, California, Cato University will bring together outstanding faculty and participants from across the country to discuss how the state has expanded during times of crises; the threats to liberty, privacy, and independence, as the rush for government-imposed solutions (and, hence, power) increases in pace; and, what can be done to restrain – or reverse – its growth.
This year’s topic: Economic Crisis, War, and the Rise of the State.
And they’ve got quite an impressive faculty list:
# Professor Robert Higgs, Editor of The Independent Review: A Journal of Political Economy and the author of numerous acclaimed books, including Crisis and Leviathan: Critical Episodes in the Growth of American Government.
# Professor Robert McDonald, department of history, the U.S. Military Academy at West Point. He has published articles in a wide range of academic journals of history, and has a national reputation as a scholar of Thomas Jefferson and the American Founding period.
# Dan Mitchell, senior fellow at the Cato Institute and a top national expert on tax reform and supply-side tax policy. His latest book is Global Tax Revolution: The Rise of Tax Competition and the Battle to Defend It.
# Professor Marcus Cole, Professor of Law at Stanford Law School, and a National Fellow at the Hoover Institution on War, Revolution and Peace. His scholarly and research interests range from classical liberal political theory to natural law and the history of commercial law.
# Dr. Veronique de Rugy, senior research fellow at the Mercatus Center. A former policy analyst at the Cato Institute, she is coauthor of Action ou Taxation, published in Switzerland, and serves on the board of directors of the Center for Freedom and Prosperity.
# David Boaz, executive vice president of the Cato Institute; author of The Politics of Freedom: Taking on the Left, the Right, and Threats to our Liberties; Libertarianism: A Primer; and editor of The Libertarians Reader and the Cato Handbook for Policymakers.
# Dr. Tom G. Palmer, senior fellow at the Cato Institute, director of Cato University, and author of the forthcoming book Realizing Freedom: Libertarian Theory, History and Practice.
# Prof. Tibor Machan, adjunct scholar at the Cato Institute and professor at the Argyros School of Business and Economics at Chapman University He is a research fellow at the Hoover Institution and the Pacific Research Foundation. He is widely published and is the author of numerous books and articles on natural rights, political philosophy, business ethics, and libertarianism.
# Randal O’Toole, senior fellow at the Cato Institute, focusing on urban growth, public land, and transportation issues. His latest book is The Best-Laid Plans: How Government Planning Harms the Quality of Your Life, Your Pocketbook, and Your Future.
Cato’s been running this program for the better part of two decades now; I attended back in 1989 when they held it on the campus of Dartmouth College. Other than the fact that we were spending a humid July in college dorms without air conditioning, it was a great experience that I’d recommend to anyone interested in the philosophy of freedom.
You can find information about the program here.
