Cato on Campus - Regional Studies: European Union

Swedish Myths and Realities

Wed, 06 Aug 2008 15:03:00 EDT

"Johan Norberg, author of In Defense of Global Capitalism, sits down with reason.tv's Michael C. Moynihan to sort out the myths of the Sweden's welfare state, health services, tax rates, and its status as the 'most successful society the world has ever known.'"

The Biofuel Brew Ha-Ha

Thu, 10 Apr 2008 14:58:00 EDT

By Peter Suderman: Reason contributor Peter Suderman writes that the biofuels craze is boosting the price of beer, because farmers are shifting away from barley to biofuel crops made more lucrative by mandates and subsidies.

Letter to Our European Friends

Mon, 04 Feb 2008 10:51:00 EST

By P.J. O'Rourke: "America is in the midst of an all-important electoral campaign. But, talking to Europeans, I've discovered that there is puzzlement and misinformation on your continent about what's happening on ours. Europeans feel an understandable confusion when faced with a political system consisting of two houses of Congress and a White House, and nobody is home in any of them."

A Bill of Rights Europe Did Not Need

Mon, 10 Dec 2007 21:00:00 EST

By Anthony de Jasay: "Even if it were less woolly and silly, the Charter of Fundamental Rights could hardly become a force for good."

What Can the United States Learn from the Nordic Model?

Mon, 05 Nov 2007 09:03:00 EST

By Daniel J. Mitchell: "Conservative critics correctly condemn the large welfare states, but often overlook the positive results generated by laissez-faire policies in other areas. Liberals, meanwhile, exaggerate the economic performance of Nordic nations in an effort to justify welfare-state policies, while failing to acknowledge the role of freemarket policies in other areas."

Stockholm Syndrome

Thu, 11 Oct 2007 15:11:00 EDT

By Michael C. Moynihan: "Western Europe's most famously socialist country is slowly plodding toward free-market reforms."