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Using a combination of basic economic principles, demographics, game theory, and number crunching, Jon Birger explains America’s curiously lopsided dating and marriage market among single, college-educated, looking-for-a-partner women. 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. View the full event here: http://www.cato.org/events/economics-dating-how-game-theory-demographics-explain-dating-dc

Liberal democracies such as the United States face an acute dilemma in the conduct of foreign relations. American national interests sometimes require cooperation with repressive, corrupt, or otherwise odious regimes. But close working relationships with autocratic regimes should not be undertaken lightly. Such partnerships risk compromising, or even making a mockery of, America’s values of democratic governance, civil liberties, and free markets. In their new book, Perilous Partners: The Benefits and Pitfalls of America’s Alliances with Authoritarian Regimes, Cato Institute senior fellow Ted Galen Carpenter and Cato adjunct scholar Malou Innocent contend that U.S. officials have amassed a less-than-stellar record of grappling with ethical dilemmas.

Featuring Adam Bates (@adamtaylorbates), policy analyst, Cato Institute Project on Criminal Justice; Molly Gill (@mmgillwriter), government affairs counsel, Families Against Mandatory Minimums; moderated by Caleb O. Brown (@cobrown), director of multimedia, Cato Institute. Efforts at criminal justice reform at the federal level have gained some traction and the Department of Justice is in the process of releasing some 6,000 federal inmates early. Still, the United States incarcerates more than two-million people in state and federal prisons.

Zoning has shaped American cities since 1916, when New York City adopted the first comprehensive ordinance. It has remained a popular and widely used institution, particularly for homeowners wishing to protect the value of their homes. As values have soared in recent years, however, this protection has accelerated to the degree that new housing development has become unreasonably difficult and costly. The widespread Not in My Backyard (NIMBY) syndrome is driven by voters' excessive concern about their home values and creates barriers to growth that reach beyond individual communities. Those barriers contribute to suburban sprawl, entrench income and racial segregation, retard regional immigration to the most productive cities, add to national wealth inequality, and slow the growth of the American economy. Zoning Rules, an update of Fischel's 1985 classic book The Economics of Zoning, examines this history while offering solutions to the unintended consequences of zoning. View the full event here: http://www.cato.org/events/zoning-rules-economics-land-use-regulation.

Follow the link to view the full conference: http://www.cato.org/events/fifty-years-after-reform-successes-failures-lessons-immigration-act-1965. Featuring: Matthew Kolken, Managing Partner of the immigration law firm of Kolken & Kolken, and the author of the Deportation and Removal Blog Maria Gabriela Pacheco, Immigrant Rights Advocate and Program Director of TheDream.US Grover Norquist, President, Americans for Tax Reform Moderator: Ruben Navarrette, syndicated columnist and a member of the USA Today Board of Contributors.

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Follow link to view the full event: http://www.cato.org/events/property-rights-are-human-rights-why-how-land-titles-matter-indigenous-people Indigenous peoples' land rights around the world have long been violated or weakened by hostile or wrong-headed government policies. Tim Wilson will explain why property rights are human rights, and how legal impediments still undermine the ability of Aboriginal and other indigenous Australians to use their land titles as they see fit, including with various ownership structures.

View full event here: http://www.cato.org/events/more-you-wanted-know-failure-mandated-disclosure Americans swim daily in a sea of mandated disclosures. These disclosures accompany every trip to the doctor’s office, every credit card statement, every purchase of a song on your smartphone. Their intent is to transform every person into a well-informed consumer, able to make sound choices whether considering a range of medical treatments or a range of credit card features. But are the reams of information produced through mandated disclosures actually helpful? Are we making better choices? Is the enormous expense of compiling, distributing, and reviewing the information worth the benefit to the consumer? In their book, More Than You Wanted to Know: The Failure of Mandated Disclosure, law professors Omri Ben-Shahar and Carl E. Schneider conclude that these disclosures have utterly failed to achieve their goals and that widespread reliance on them is misplaced.

To view the full event follow the ink: http://www.cato.org/events/islam-identity-future-liberty-muslim-countries The disappointing aftermath of the Arab Spring produced pessimism about the spread of liberalism in much of the Muslim world. Sudanese-born author Amir Ahmad Nasr will draw from his profoundly personal and critically acclaimed book to discuss the real ramifications of the digital revolution and the social movements it helped unleash. He will make the case for an assertive liberalism and explain how the power of the internet is a force for good in transforming ideas and identities in Islamic societies.

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Bill Richardson discusses the current state of immigration reform in the 21st Century. Produced by Caleb O. Brown and Tess Terrible.

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