May, 2006

Coming Next Week: The Future of Work

Join us next week for the June issue of Cato Unbound devoted to glimpsing the future of work in America. Richard Florida, author of the bestselling Rise of the Creative Class, will lead off with an essay on Monday. Replying to Florida over the following week and a half will be: George Mason economist and [...]

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For Strong-Government Conservatism

For David Boaz, David Brooks’ talk of strong-government conservatism is the bad news and David Henderson’s suggestion that “spending has got to give” is the good news. I look at things somewhat differently.
Say we accept Henderson’s very persuasive argument, that a sharp increase in lifetime net tax rates–the inevitable result of an unreformed status [...]

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The Democrats and Small Government

I agree with David Frum that the future of the GOP majority depends, in part, on what the Democrats do—but I think it’s worth distinguishing between what Bill Clinton did, in 1996 and ‘98, and what the Democrats have failed to do ever since. Clinton moved the party to the right on economics, as David [...]

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