Archive for James A. Dorn
Institutions and Development: The Case of China
James Dorn (jdorn@cato.org) is a China specialist and vice president for academic affairs at the Cato Institute. He is coeditor of China’s Future: Constructive Partner or Emerging Threat? (Cato Institute, 2000).
An earlier version of this article appeared in Vital Speeches of the Day (November 15, 2005).
From a liberal perspective the goal of economic development is [...]
U.S.-China Relations after CNOOC
When the China hawks in Congress joined
forces last summer with protectionists, a
strong (and dangerous) coalition formed to
effectively end any hopes that CNOOC Ltd., a subsidiary
of the state-owned China National Offshore Oil
Company, would succeed in its bid to acquire Unocal.
The Rule of Law and Freedom in Emerging Democracies: A Madisonian Perspective
James Dorn is vice president for academic affairs at the Cato Institute.
The collapse of communism in 1989 in Eastern and Central Europe, and the fall of the Soviet Union two years later, have increased the number of democracies in the world to a total of 120. Of those, however, only 85 are [...]
Frederic Bastiat: The Primacy of Property
James Dorn is vice president for academic affairs at the Cato Institute and a professor of economics at Towson University in Maryland. This is adapted from a longer article that will appear in the September 2001 Journal des Économistes. Reprinted by permission.
Frédéric Bastiat, although best known as an economic journalist, was also a [...]
P. T. Bauer’s Market-Liberal Vision
James Dorn is vice president of academic affairs at the Cato Institute. This is adapted from an article that will appear in the forthcoming Encyclopedia of Libertarianism.
Today it is not unusual to hear it suggested that the undeveloped world’s best hope lies in private property, the market economy, and the rule of law. [...]
Chinas Spontaneous Order
James Dorn is vice president for academic affairs at the Cato Institute and professor of economics at Towson University. He is the editor of China in the New Millennium: Market Reforms and Social Development (Cato Institute, 1998). A shorter version of this article appeared in the Journal of Commerce.
This year marks the 50th anniversary [...]
A New Monetary Universe
Electronic money (e-money) offers the possibility of privatizing the currency and making government fiat money disappear. Competition and falling processing costs will prompt e-money issuers to pay interest to users, and as people choose to hold that money rather than non-interest-bearing paper money issued by central banks, there will be a radical change in economic [...]
1Nov1998 | James A. Dorn | 1 comment | ContinuedFree Trade and Human Rights in China
James A. Dorn is vice president for academic affairs at the Cato Institute. This essay is a condensed version of his article in the Spring/Summer 1996 Cato Journal.
The best way to promote human rights around the world is to promote free trade. Trade liberalization improves ties among nations, increases their wealth, and advances civil [...]
Ending Tax Socialism
Mr. Dorn is vice-president for academic affairs at the Cato Institute.
In 1848 Marx and Engels proposed that progressive taxation be used to wrest, by degrees, all capital from the bourgeois, to centralize all instruments of production in the hands of the state. Although communism has failed, the idea of progressive taxation as a means [...]
The Rise of Government and the Decline of Morality
Mr. Dorn is vice president for academic affairs at the Cato Institute and director of Cato’s Project on Civil Society. This essay is based on his Chautauqua Institution lecture in 1995.
Government and Morality
The growth of government has politicized life and weakened the nation’s moral fabric. Government intervention—in the economy, in the community, and [...]
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The End of Prosperity: How Higher Taxes Will Doom the Economy–If We Let it Happen
By Arthur B. Laffer, Stephen Moore, and Peter J. Tanous
