Many years ago, thoughtful, well-intentioned, educated people in the United States all understood that socialism was the future. The average citizen might have retained a quaint belief in the American system of free enterprise, limited government, and individual rights, but among the cognoscenti — academics, artists, newspaper and radio pundits — it was widely recognized that the capitalist experiment had run its course. The overwhelming consensus was that the coming century would see economies managed by benevolent experts: the chaotic, dog-eat-dog competition of the market would give way to rational central planning.
In his book, Birger explains America’s curiously lopsided dating and marriage market among single, straight, college-educated women who are looking for a partner. Birger investigates not only the consequences of this unequal ratio of college-educated men to women on dating but also a host of other social issues.
How do economics and game theory explain the dating scene in D.C.? Watch the event video and listen to a Cato Daily Podcast with Birger.
Dateonomics is available for purchase on Amazon or your local bookstore.
Our growing national debt recently topped $18 trillion, and is projected to approach $27 trillion within 10 years. Including the unfunded liabilities of Social Security and Medicare, our real indebtedness exceeds $90 trillion. Yet, politicians from both parties continue to avoid the difficult decisions that must be made.
A new book by Cato Senior Fellow Michael D. Tanner drives home the simple truth that there is no way to address America’s debt problem without reforming entitlements.
At an upcoming book forum at the Cato Institute, Tanner and other leading scholars will discuss the desperate need for entitlement reform and the heavy implications our current situation holds for the future of the U.S. economy.
If you can’t make it to the Cato Institute, this event will be broadcast live online.
“It just makes your skin crawl to be a libertarian in this city…They are all there to get a piece of the taxpayer’s money…The purpose of government is only to protect life, liberty and property and everything beyond that is unwarranted in a free society…Now we have this conception that the president is supposed to lead the country, not the government, but lead the country across a bridge to the 21st century, or something. That’s too exalted a programme for any man to be given…When you have a government as big as ours is, the next president is going to be inevitably intruding into our lives…I don’t believe people can lead fully human lives if they are permanently dependent on the state.”
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