David Boaz

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David Boaz is the executive vice president of the libertarian U.S think tank the Cato Institute. He has played a key role in the development of the Cato Institute and the libertarian movement.

He is the author of Libertarianism: A Primer, published in 1997 by the Free Press and described by the Los Angeles Times as "a well-researched manifesto of libertarian ideas," the editor of The Libertarian Reader, and co-editor of the Cato Handbook for Congress (2003) and the Cato Handbook on Policy (2005). He frequently discusses such topics as education choice, the growth of government, the ownership society, his support of drug legalization, and the rise of libertarianism on national television and radio shows.

Boaz's March 1988 New York Times article on the futility of the drug war generated much debate over the decriminalization of drugs. His articles have also published in the Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, National Review, and Slate. He also has appeared on ABC's Politically Incorrect with Bill Maher, CNN's Crossfire, NPR's Talk of the Nation and All Things Considered, Fox News Channel, BBC, Voice of America, Radio Free Europe, and other media. Boaz, a graduate of Vanderbilt University, is the former editor of New Guard magazine and was executive director of the Council for a Competitive Economy prior to joining Cato in 1981.

Books

• Market Liberalism: A Paradigm for the 21st Century, Editor with Edward H. Crane, 1993.
• Libertarianism: A Primer, Free Press 1997.
• The Libertarian Reader, Editor, Free Press 1997 .

External links

• Biography of David Boaz, Cato Institute.
• David Boaz interview by Brian Lamb at C-SPAN Booknotes.
• David Boaz discusses the ownership society on NPR's All Things Considered with Robert Siegel.
• David Boaz's entry "libertarianism" at the Encyclopedia Britannica

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