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A quick真reference guide to reforms that state and federal policymakers must enact to make health care better, more affordable, more secure, and more universal. Health care in the United States is not a free market. In many ways, U.S. residents are less free to make their own health decisions than residents of other nations. Government controls a larger share of health spending in the United States than in Canada, the United Kingdom, and most o...

Unlock the power of shareholder capitalism -- a system that transcends zero-sum games and Wall Street stereotypes. In its essence, shareholder capitalism enables mutually beneficial trade, a concept ingrained in our human history for over 300, 000 years. This approach fosters specialization, fuels innovation, and propels economic growth. In this engaging new book, David McLean explains how embracing shareholder capitalism doesn't negate the s...

Freedom in the 50 States is one of the most comprehensive and definitive sources on how public policies in each American state impact an individual's economic, social, and personal freedoms. William P. Ruger and Jason Sorens score all 50 states on their overall respect for individual freedom, and also on their respect for three dimensions of freedom considered separately: fiscal policy, regulatory policy, and personal freedom. To calculate ...

An insider's account of the federal response to the COVID-19 pandemic's disruption of our mortgage, housing, and financial markets.

In this annual review from the Cato Institute, leading legal scholars analyze the 2022-2023 Supreme Court term, specifically the most important and far-reaching cases of the year, plus cases coming up. Now in its 22nd edition, the Review is the first scholarly journal to appear after the term's end and the only one grounded in the nation's first principles, liberty, and limited government.

Freedom of press is a cornerstone of our democratic political system. But reporters, pundits, and editors face intense pressure to serve as propagandists rather than journalists in their coverage of U.S. foreign policy. Too many members of the news media seem unable to make that distinction and play their proper role as watchdogs for the American people regarding possible government incompetence or misconduct. Since World War II, America has b...

In this annual review from the Cato Institute, leading legal scholars analyze the 2021-2022 Supreme Court term, specifically the most important and far-reaching cases of the year, plus cases coming up. Now in its 21st edition, the Review is the first scholarly journal to appear after the term's end and the only one grounded in the nation's first principles, liberty, and limited government. Topics in the 2021-2022 edition include: vaccine manda...

Centers of Progress: Forty Cities that Changed the World takes readers on a journey through history's greatest urban centers.

Most American adults easily recognize the following description of the 2008 financial crisis. Unregulated Wall Street firms (so-called shadow banks) made too many risky bets with derivatives, causing the housing bubble to burst. The contagious run through the financial system was only arrested by bailouts from the federal government and major regulatory changes. But what if the record demonstrates that the core of this story is misleading and ...

Empowering the New American Worker identifies what Cato Institute scholars believe to be the most important market-oriented policies for today's American worker, covering a broad array of issues including education, housing, remote work, health care, child care, transportation, criminal justice, and licensing. Since at least 2016, policymakers on both the right and the left have lamented the plight of the American worker and promised to fix it...

This controversial and counterintuitive new book examines why population growth and freedom to innovate make Earth's resources more, not less, abundant.

Populism and the Future of the Fed features highly readable essays that provide a broad perspective on core issues-including the populist challenge to Fed independence, fiscal dominance and the return of inflation, the limits of Fed power versus the expansion of its dual mandate, and the strange world of helicopter money and fiscal QE.

This controversial and counterintuitive new book examines why population growth and freedom to innovate make Earth's resources more, not less, abundant.

An inquiry into how we communicate issues and ideologies, and how language intended to persuade instead divides.

This short but accessible book provides an argument that the Lockean revolution in Christianity¿which reconciled faith with freedom¿is both desperately necessary and also promisingly possible in Islam.

How has an archaic, burdensome law been able to persist for a century?Passed in 1920, the Jones Act restricts the waterborne transport of cargo within the United States to vessels that are U.S.-flagged, U.S.-crewed, U.S.-owned, and U.S.-built. Meant to bolster the U.S. maritime sector, this protectionist law has instead contributed to its decline. As a result, today's U.S. oceangoing domestic fleet numbers fewer than 100 ships. Beyond leaving ...

Can the government do that? Check the Constitution! The Cato Institute's Pocket Constitution is the perfect read at any time of the year.

As the Federal Reserve struggles to fulfill its mandate in a world of low and falling interest rates, it faces yet another challenge: that of resisting a new threat to its hard-won independence.Thanks to crisis-era changes to its operating procedures, the Fed now enjoys practically unlimited powers of quantitative easing (QE): it can buy as many assets as it likes while still controlling inflation. So far, QE has been a weapon for combating re...

This book is a one-stop guide to everything from the latest research on the effects of school choice on civic engagement to Supreme Court precedent. It is a must-have for any combatant in the school choice wars, or anyone who just wants the best education for their children.

$26 trillion and rising. This book explores the U.S. debt crisis from a public choice perspective, and proposes new fiscal rules and institutional changes to address the crisis.