Book discussion: Mandelbaum and USA in post-Cold War World (Cato)

Mission Failure: America and the World in the Post–Cold War Era
Book Forum
Cato Institute - Wednesday, April 20, 2016
Washington, DC, 12:00PM - 1:30PM

Featuring the author Michael Mandelbaum, Christian A. Herter Professor of American Foreign Policy, School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University; with comments by Keir Lieber, Associate Professor, Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University; and Brad Stapleton, Visiting Research Fellow, Cato Institute. Moderated by John Mueller, Senior Research Scientist, Mershon Center for International Security Studies, Ohio State University, and Senior Fellow, Cato Institute.

Please join us as Michael Mandelbaum—prominent columnist and author, and a leading foreign-policy thinker—discusses his new book, Mission Failure: America and the World in the Post–Cold War Era. In this definitive work, Mandelbaum critically assesses American military interventions since the end of the Cold War and the deeply flawed post–Cold War efforts to promote American values and American institutions throughout the world. Each intervention was designed to transform local economic and political systems, and each, argues Mandelbaum, failed. It is, he writes, “the story of good, sometimes noble, and thoroughly American intentions coming up against the deeply embedded, often harsh, and profoundly un-American realities of places far from the United States.” In these encounters, he concludes, “the realities prevailed.” We hope you will be able to join us for what will be a provocative and highly illuminating event.

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A China como economia de mercado, e a hipocrisia ocidental - K. William Watson (Cato Institute)

It’s Time to Dump Nonmarket Economy Treatment
 K. William Watson
Cato Institute, March 10, 2016

Trade officials in the United States and Europe use what is called “nonmarket economy methodology” in antidumping cases against imports from China. That practice ignores the actual prices used by Chinese producers and results in unpredictable and unrealistically high antidumping duties.

In a new bulletin, Cato scholar K. William Watson debunks the myths surrounding nonmarket economy treatment and the 2016 deadline in the hopes of preventing the U.S. and EU governments from maintaining this economically harmful policy while needlessly provoking trade conflict with China.

“It’s Time to Dump Nonmarket Economy Treatment,” by K. William Watson

O Cato Institute homenageia o juiz da Suprema Corte americana Antonin Scalia

Conheço muito pouco de suas opiniões e posições como juiz, por isso posto esses artigos retirados do boletim semanal do Cato Institute para melhor conhecer esse juiz tido como conservador.
Paulo Roberto de Almeida

Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia Remembered
 Cato Institute Weekly Dispatch, February 18, 2016

Justice Antonin Scalia passed away over the weekend, a profound loss to the Court, the nation, and to the study of law.

By any objective measure, Scalia is among the greatest justices in our history. With his penetrating logic and his colorful wit, Scalia was the most forceful and visible advocate for originalism, a theory of constitutional interpretation that was derided when he ascended to the bench and is now, for both liberals and conservatives, mainstream.

Everyone should mourn his loss, no matter which side of the political spectrum they are on.

"RIP: Was Justice Scalia the Last Great Supreme Court Justice?," by Trevor Burrus
"Scalia Will Be Impossible to Replace," by Ilya Shapiro
"This Is What Antonin Scalia Taught Me," by Walter Olson
"Justice Scalia and the Libertarian Legal Movement," by Ilya Shapiro
"Justice Scalia: Underappreciated Fourth Amendment Defender," by Jonathan Blanks
"Scalia in the Pages of Regulation," by Nick Zaiac, Peter Van Doren, and Thomas A. Firey

Angus Deaton, palestrando no Cato Institute, antes, muito antes do Nobel

Parece que o Cato Institute, a instituição libertária de pesquisas econômicas mais simpática de Washington -- eu era um boca de seminários lá, quando morava na capital do império -- já anda fabricando prêmios Nobel. Não é o caso, claro, pois Angus Deaton ganhou o seu prêmio pelo trabalho desenvolvido em Princeton, mas essa premiação também revela que o comitê do prêmio em economia já foca gente de outro calibre, que não aqueles populistas econômicos do tipo do Paul Krugman (que deve ter sido pelos seus trabalhos de teoria do comércio internacional) e do Joseph Stiglitz (se supõe que tenha sido pelos trabalhos de economia monetária, e não pela demagogia antiglobalizadora).
Comprei o Great Escape para Kindle, comecei a ler mas tive de parar por causa de mudança. Na viagem continuo. Preciso descobrir se, além de suas boas contribuições metodológicas e empíricas para o estudo da pobreza e da "grande escapada" das garras dessa malvada histórica, ele também é adepto da teoria conspiratória do "chutando a escada", que ele apresenta na forma mais amena de ricos barrando caminho de imitadores e seguidores da grande fuga para a frente, out of poverty...
Se for esse o caso, vou tirar 25% do seu prêmio...
Em todo caso, aqui vão os links para as palestras do Deaton no Cato.
Paulo Roberto de Almeida

Angus Deaton Wins Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences
  
Earlier this month, economist Angus Deaton (pictured above speaking at a 2013 Cato Forum) was awarded the 2015 Nobel Prize Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences for his study of individual consumption choices. The Princeton economic professor’s work on carefully measuring consumption and other measures of well-being led him to understand development as a complex process not susceptible to improvement by technical or top-down interventions. For Deaton, knowledge is a key to development—even more so than income—and helps explain the tremendous progress humanity has experienced in the last 250 years when parts of the world we now call rich began their “great escape” from poverty and destitution.
“Nobel Laureate Angus Deaton on Human Progress, Poverty, and Aid,” by Ian Vasquez
“The Great Escape,” March/April 2014 Cato Policy Report, featuring Angus Deaton
BOOK FORUM: “The Great Escape: Health, Wealth, and the Origins of Inequality”
PODCAST: “The Great Escape from Poverty,” featuring Angus Deaton