Founded in 1977 by Edward H. Crane, The Cato Institute is a non-profit public policy research foundation based in Washington D.C. The Institute is named for Cato’s Letters, a series of libertarian pamphlets that helped lay the philosophical foundation for the American Revolution. The principles the letters outlined: limited government, freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, individual liberty, and peace are the Institute’s ultimate goals.
The Cato Institute’s “Milton Friedman Prize for Advancing Liberty”
One program that the Cato Institute has implemented in the pursuit of their mission is The Milton Friedman Prize for Advancing Liberty. The prize is a cash award of $500,000 to be presented to an individual every other year for a significant contribution to advance human freedom. The upcoming award will be presented to the winner on May 13, 2010, at the Milton Friedman Prize for Advancing Liberty’s Biennial Dinner at the Washington Hilton in Washington D.C.
Selection Committee members this year are: Charles Koch, CEO of the largest privately held company in the world, Koch Industries of Wichita, Kansas; Fareed Zakaria, editor of Newsweek International and an ABC News commentator; Samuel Brittan, economic commentator for theFinancial Times; noted commentator Mary Anastasia O’Grady of the Wall Street Journal; Gurcharan Das, former CEO of Proctor & Gamble, India, and author of the acclaimed book India Unbound; Edward H. Crane, president and founder of the Cato Institute; and Karen Horn, director of the Institut der deutschen Wirtschaft and one of the leading voices of classical liberalism in Germany.
Cato Unbound
Each month, Cato Unbound presents an essay on a big-picture topic by one of the world’s leading thinkers. The ideas in the essay are then put to the test by the comments and criticisms of their peers. The idea behind it is to create a forum for wide-ranging and open-ended conversation rather than get stuck in the trivial disputes that plague most internet forums.
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Cato @ Liberty
In addition to their main website, the Cato Institute also operates a blog, Cato @ Liberty.
The Cato Institute’s “Milton Friedman Prize for Advancing Liberty”
One program that the Cato Institute has implemented in the pursuit of their mission is The Milton Friedman Prize for Advancing Liberty. The prize is a cash award of $500,000 to be presented to an individual every other year for a significant contribution to advance human freedom. The upcoming award will be presented to the winner on May 13, 2010, at the Milton Friedman Prize for Advancing Liberty’s Biennial Dinner at the Washington Hilton in Washington D.C.
Selection Committee members this year are: Charles Koch, CEO of the largest privately held company in the world, Koch Industries of Wichita, Kansas; Fareed Zakaria, editor of Newsweek International and an ABC News commentator; Samuel Brittan, economic commentator for theFinancial Times; noted commentator Mary Anastasia O’Grady of the Wall Street Journal; Gurcharan Das, former CEO of Proctor & Gamble, India, and author of the acclaimed book India Unbound; Edward H. Crane, president and founder of the Cato Institute; and Karen Horn, director of the Institut der deutschen Wirtschaft and one of the leading voices of classical liberalism in Germany.
Cato Unbound
Each month, Cato Unbound presents an essay on a big-picture topic by one of the world’s leading thinkers. The ideas in the essay are then put to the test by the comments and criticisms of their peers. The idea behind it is to create a forum for wide-ranging and open-ended conversation rather than get stuck in the trivial disputes that plague most internet forums.
Click here to visit them.
Cato @ Liberty
In addition to their main website, the Cato Institute also operates a blog, Cato @ Liberty.
