James A. Dorn is Vice President for Monetary Studies and Senior Fellow at the Cato Institute. His articles have appeared in The Wall Street Journal, Financial Times and South China Morning Post. He has testified before the U.S.-China Security Review Commission and the Congressional-Executive Commission on China.
James is the Vice President for CATO academic affairs, editor of the Cato Journal, and director of Cato's annual monetary conference. His research interests include trade and human rights, economic reform in China, and the future of money.
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Are You Making the Best Decisions?
- Published on Saturday, September 14, 2013
In business, as in life, short-term thinking never works for very long. Many leaders are content to look only at what is immediately in front of them. While it may be tempting to behave this way in an increasingly complex and interdependent world, such narrow, near-sighted leadership hardly serves the organizations and systems we are a part of. Bigger systems naturally require bigger, broader thinking.
Trade, Not War, Achieves Better Results
- Published on Thursday, September 12, 2013
In my book, Conscientious Equity, I discuss that when nations have free trade agreements with each other, they historically have not gone to war. Once the road for negotiations is open to trade, it remains open for other serious considerations. Equally important is that free trade agreements not only benefit businesses, but a country's entire population as well. Trade leads to economic freedom, which helps reduce poverty and corruption.
You Didn’t Build That
- Published on Wednesday, September 11, 2013
President Obama received much criticism during the 2012 campaign for his remark, “You didn’t build that.” Although he uncharacteristically said it in a fairly clumsy way, what he meant was that for every proud self-made entrepreneur there is a huge web of supporting institutions and infrastructure built by the government.
Should America Enter Syria’s Hell?
- Published on Wednesday, September 04, 2013
On Saturday President Barack Obama surprised most everyone in America by making the right decision and asking Congress for authority to go to war in Syria. Now Congress should make the right decision and vote no. One of the impacts of being a superpower is that America has interests everywhere. However, most of those interests are modest, even peripheral.
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