My Cato colleagues Sallie James and Bill Watson have a new paper on regulatory protectionism.  On Thursday, April 18, there will be a policy forum on the paper here at Cato, with commentary by former AB Member Jim Bacchus and economist Don Boudreaux. There's a lot going on

A couple weeks ago, I mentioned Malawi's criticism of the proposed EU tobacco products directive.  Someone pointed out to me that the Dominican Republic also made a submission on this issue.  There were two things I wanted to note in that submission. First, in my post, I expressed

At the beginning of ths month, following the release of a study by the IMF showing the severely negative climate impact of fossil fuel subsidies, I published an oped in the Toronto Globe and Mail lamenting that "despite the obvious importance both to climate change and competitiveness issues, the

In response to the Economist articles on e-cigarettes that I mentioned recently -- which noted that "a switch from smoking to vaping could improve public health, some say" -- a couple of the letters to the editor make clear that there are differing views out there.  Here is one

BIICL 13th Annual WTO Conference Wednesday 15 May 2013 and Thursday 16 May 2013 BMA House, Tavistock Square, London, WC1H 9JP British Institute of International and Comparative Law, organized in association with the Institute of International Economic Law at Georgetown Law, the Journal of International Economic Law, the Society of

A couple weeks ago, I asked the following question in relation to the U.S. COOL measure: "What will consumers think of seeing details on where the animal was 'born, raised, and slaughtered' on every package of meat?" CNN's Jake Tapper was intrigued by

Thanks to the  efforts of leading WTO scholars and EUI professors Bernard Hoekman and Petros Mavroidis, today we have a better view of the perspectives and positions of seven of the nine candidates for Director-General of the WTO.  Their e-book Race for the WTP Director General job:  Seven