Concept
Cato Institute
Overview
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, chairman of the board and chief executive officer of Koch Industries. Cato was established to focus on public advocacy, media exposure, and societal influence.
Cato advocates for a limited governmental role in domestic and foreign affairs and strong protection of civil liberties, including support for lowering or abolishing most taxes, opposition to the Federal Reserve system and the Affordable Care Act, the privatization of numerous government agencies and programs including Social Security and the United States Postal Service, demilitarization of the police, open borders and adhering to a non-interventionist foreign policy.
According to the 2019 Global Go to Think Tank Index Report (revised June 2020, Think Tanks and Civil Societies Program, University of Pennsylvania), Cato was number 20 in the "Top Think Tanks Worldwide" and number 13 in the "Top Think Tanks in the United States".
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Yet those who know the habits of the continent of Europe are aware how apparently small a motive often outweighs the desire of money getting, even in the operations which have money getting for their direct object. The more highly the science of ethology is cultivated, and the better the diversities of individual and national character are understood, the smaller, probably, will the number of propositions become…
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Cato the philosopher was brother to Servilia, the mother of Brutus, and he it was whom of all the Romans his nephew most admired and studied to imitate, and he afterwards married his daughter Porcia. Of all the sects of the Greek philosophers, though there was none of which he had not been a hearer and in which he had not made some proficiency, yet he chiefly esteemed the Platonists; and, not much approving of the…
Plutarch, Plutarch
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The temporal government which is to coexist with this spiritual authority, consists of an aristocracy of capitalists, whose dignity and authority are to be in the ratio of the degree of generality of their conceptions and operations--bankers at the summit, merchants next, then manufacturers, and agriculturists at the bottom of the scale. No representative system, or other popular organization, by way of counterpoise…
John Stuart Mill, Auguste Comte and Positivism
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Philosophers who discussed Cato Institute
- Antony Flew
- John Stuart Mill
- George H. Smith
- Tibor Machan
- Murray Rothbard
- Intellectual
- Hans-Hermann Hoppe
- Robert A. Heinlein
- Brian Leiter
- Thomas Hobbes
- Ayn Rand
- Jeremy Bentham
- Montesquieu
- Laozi
- David Kelley (philosopher)
- Douglas Den Uyl
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- Washington, D.C.
- Ayn Rand Institute
- Friedrich Hayek
- Free market
- George Mason University
- John Locke
- The Wall Street Journal
- Tibor Machan
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- Milton Friedman
- American Revolution
- Meteorology
- Murray Rothbard
- Sexual harassment
- Sierra Club
- University of Nottingham
- Roman Republic
- Hoover Institution
- Scientific American
- The American Spectator
- The New York Times
- Cato the Younger
- The New Yorker
- Constitution of the United States
Opposing perspectives
Place in the tradition
Part of Anarchism.