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The Cato Institute is an American libertarian think tank headquartered in Washington, D.C. It was founded in 1977 by Ed Crane, Murray Rothbard, and Charles Koch, [5] chairman of the board and chief executive officer of Koch Industries. [nb 1] Cato was established to focus on public advocacy, media exposure, and societal influence. [6]
It was started as a bimonthly magazine [1] in 1977 by the American Enterprise Institute and acquired by Cato in 1989. Past editors have included former Supreme Court justice Antonin Scalia, [2] Murray Weidenbaum, Christopher DeMuth, Walter Olson, and Peter Huber. [3] Peter Van Doren has edited the magazine since 1999.
The Cato Journal was a triannual peer-reviewed academic journal that covered public policy from an Austro-libertarian point of view. [1] It was established in 1981 and published by the Cato Institute .
Inquiry Magazine was founded in 1977 as part of the Cato Institute, in an effort by libertarian donor Charles Koch and Cato president Ed Crane to build public policy institutions for the libertarian movement. Williamson Evers was its first editor. [2] After Evers was ousted as editor in a dispute with Crane, [3] Glenn Garvin took over in 1980. [4]
Daniel J. "Dan" Mitchell is a libertarian economist and former senior fellow at the Cato Institute. [1] He is a proponent of the flat tax and tax competition , financial privacy, and fiscal sovereignty.
Patrick Eddington is an American author, policy analyst in national security and civil liberties at the Cato Institute, who served previously as a CIA military imagery analyst (National Photographic Interpretation Center) from 1988 to 1996. [1]
Walter K. Olson (born 1954) is an American author and blogger who writes mostly about legal subjects, including tort reform.Olson is a senior fellow of the Cato Institute, a libertarian think tank in Washington, D.C. Formerly, Olson was associated with the Manhattan Institute in New York City.
Patrick J. Michaels, Cato Institute Patrick J. Michaels (February 15, 1950 – July 15, 2022) was an American agricultural climatologist . [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] Michaels was a senior fellow in environmental studies at the Cato Institute until 2019.