Now in its seventh edition, the Cato Handbook on Policy gathers the policy recommendations from Cato Institute scholars and experts on every major policy issue.

Providing both in-depth analysis and concrete recommendations, the Handbook is an invaluable resource for policymakers and anyone else interested in securing liberty through limited government.

This year's edition appeals to policymakers on federal, state, and local levels with a broad scope of issues, such as healthcare, foreign policy, Social Security, education, taxes, and energy policy. The Washington Post has called the Handbook a soup-to-nuts agenda to reduce spending, kill programs, terminate whole agencies, and dramatically restrict the power of the federal government.

INTRODUCTION
It’s been a long time since a U.S. election generated feelings of actual joy beyond the ranks of partisan activists. If Barack Obama hasn’t yet ushered in a new ‘‘era of good feelings,’’ all Americans can take pride in the demise of yet another glass ceiling in a nation born in the idea that all of us are created equal, entitled to the inalienable rights of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

Indeed, we can take some satisfaction in observing that something normal happened: A party that had given Americans a long war and an economic crisis, led by a strikingly unpopular president, was defeated.

Republican government requires that failed parties be turned out of office. The American Founders believed firmly in the principle of rotation in office. They thought that even successful officeholders should go back home to live under the laws after a short period in office. No doubt more members of the 110th Congress would have been given that privilege were it not for the vast incumbent protection complex of laws and regulations and subsidies. ...

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Paperback: 688 pages
Publisher: Cato Institute; 7th edition (February 2009)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1933995912
ISBN-13: 978-1933995915

Contributors
Doug Bandow is vice president of policy for Citizen Outreach.

David Boaz is executive vice president of the Cato Institute and author of Libertarianism: A Primer and The Politics of Freedom: Taking on the Left, the Right, and Threats to Our Liberties.

Michael F. Cannon is director of health policy studies at the Cato Institute and coauthor of Healthy Competition: What’s Holding Back Health Care and How to Fix It.

Ted Galen Carpenter is vice president for defense and foreign policy studies at the Cato Institute and author of Smart Power: Toward a Prudent Foreign Policy for America.

Andrew J. Coulson is director of the Center for Educational Freedom at the Cato Institute and author of Market Education: The Unknown History.

Edward H. Crane is president of the Cato Institute.

James A. Dorn is vice president for academic affairs at the Cato Institute and coeditor of The Future of Money in the Information Age.

Chris Edwards is director of tax policy studies at the Cato Institute, author of Downsizing the Federal Government, and coauthor of Global Tax Revolution: The Rise of Tax Competition and the Battle to Defend It.

Benjamin Friedman is a research fellow in defense and homeland security studies at the Cato Institute.

Daniel Griswold is director of the Cato Institute’s Center for Trade Policy Studies.

Leon Hadar is a research fellow in foreign policy studies at the Cato Institute and the author of Sandstorm: American Blindness in the Middle East.

Jim Harper is director of information policy studies at the Cato Institute and author of Identity Crisis: How Identification Is Overused and Misunderstood.

Gene Healy is senior editor at the Cato Institute and author of The Cult of the Presidency: America’s Dangerous Devotion to Executive Power.

Juan Carlos Hidalgo is project coordinator for Latin America at the Cato Institute’s Center for Global Liberty and Prosperity.

Daniel Ikenson is associate director of the Cato Institute’s Center for Trade Policy Studies and coauthor of Antidumping Exposed: The Devilish Details of Unfair Trade Law.

Malou Innocent is a foreign policy analyst at the Cato Institute.

Sallie James is a policy analyst with the Cato Institute’s Center for Trade Policy Studies.

Stanley Kober is a research fellow in foreign policy studies at the Cato Institute.

David B. Kopel is an associate policy analyst at the Cato Institute, research director of the Independence Institute, and coauthor of The Heller Case: Gun Rights Affirmed!

Timothy B. Lee is an adjunct scholar at the Cato Institute.

Robert A. Levy is chairman of the Cato Institute and coauthor of The Dirty Dozen: How Twelve Supreme Court Cases Radically Expanded Government and Eroded Freedom.

Justin Logan is associate director of foreign policy studies at the Cato Institute.

Timothy Lynch is director of the Cato Institute’s Project on Criminal Justice and editor of After Prohibition: An Adult Approach to Drug Policies in the 21st Century.

Neal McCluskey is associate director of the Cato Institute’s Center for Educational Freedom and author of Feds in the Classroom: How Big Government Corrupts, Cripples, and Compromises American Education.

Patrick J. Michaels is a professor of environmental sciences at the University of Virginia, senior fellow in environmental studies at the Cato Institute, and coauthor of Climate of Extremes: Global Warming Science They Don’t Want You to Know.

Daniel J. Mitchell is a senior fellow at the Cato Institute and coauthor of Global Tax Revolution: The Rise of Tax Competition and the Battle to Defend It.

Mark Moller is assistant professor of law at DePaul University and an adjunct scholar of the Cato Institute.

William A. Niskanen is chairman emeritus and distinguished senior economist of the Cato Institute and author of Reflections of a Political Economist.

Randal O’Toole is a senior fellow at the Cato Institute and author of The Vanishing Automobile and Other Urban Myths and The Best-Laid Plans.

Tom G. Palmer is vice president for international programs at the Cato Institute.

Jeff Patch is a former budget fellow at the Cato Institute.

Roger Pilon is vice president for legal affairs, B. Kenneth Simon Chair in Constitutional Studies, and director of the Center for Constitutional Studies at the Cato Institute.

James Plummer is a former research assistant at the Cato Institute.

Christopher Preble is director of foreign policy studies at the Cato Institute and author of Exiting Iraq: Why the U.S. Must End the Military Occupation and Renew the War against Al Qaeda.

Sheldon Richman is editor of The Freeman.

John Samples is director of the Center for Representative Government at the Cato Institute and author of The Fallacy of Campaign Finance Reform.

Michael Tanner is a senior fellow at the Cato Institute, author of Leviathan on the Right: How Big-Government Conservatism Brought Down the Republican Revolution, and coauthor of A New Deal for Social Security.

Jerry Taylor is a senior fellow at the Cato Institute.

Marian L. Tupy is a policy analyst with the Center for Global Liberty and Prosperity at the Cato Institute.

Peter Van Doren is editor of Cato’s Regulation magazine and author of Chemicals, Cancer, and Choices.

Ian Va´squez is director of the Center for Global Liberty and Prosperity at the Cato Institute and editor of Global Fortune: The Stumble and Rise of World Capitalism.

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