Cato Journal

{{Infobox journal | title = Cato Journal | cover = | discipline = [[Public policy]], [[political science]] | editor = James A. Dorn | abbreviation = Cato J. | publisher = [[Cato Institute]] | country = United States | frequency = Triannual | history = 1981–2021 | impact = | impact-year = | website = http://www.cato.org/cato-journal/ | link2 = http://www.cato.org/cato-journal/archives | link2-name = Online archive | ISSN = 0273-3072 | OCLC = 637792412 | LCCN = 81642699 | CODEN = }} The '''''Cato Journal''''' was a triannual [[peer-reviewed]] [[academic journal]] that covered [[public policy]] from an [[Austrian School|Austro]]-[[libertarian]] point of view.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://mises.org/page/1429 |title=Austro-Libertarian movement journals |last=Block |first=Walter |authorlink=Walter Block |publisher=Ludwig von Mises Institute |accessdate=November 29, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131203023911/http://mises.org/page/1429 |archive-date=2013-12-03 |url-status=dead }}</ref> It was established in 1981 and published by the [[Cato Institute]]. It published articles discussing politics and economy. The journal was a "free-market, public policy journal ... for scholars concerned with questions of public policy, yet it is written and edited to be accessible to the interested lay reader".<ref>{{cite web |title=The Cato Journal |url=http://cato.org/cato-journal/ |website=Journal homepage |accessdate=November 29, 2013}}</ref> The final [[editor-in-chief]] was James A. Dorn. The final issue was released in 2021.

==History== The journal was established in 1981, when two issues were published. The frequency of publication has been triannual since 1982, with the exception of volume 15 for 1995. The Fall 2001 issue of the Cato Journal describes itself as "An interdisciplinary journal of public policy analysis" and contains articles by [[Alan Greenspan]], [[Thomas M. Humphrey]], [[Charles Plosser|Charles I.Plosser]], [[Manuel H. Johnson]], [[William A. Niskanen]], [[Robert D. McTeer]], [[Kevin Dowd]], and [[Alan Reynolds (economist)|Alan Reynolds]], among others.<ref>{{cite journal |title=Monetary Policy in the New Economy |journal=Cato Journal |date=2001 |volume=21 |issue=Fall, Number 2}}</ref> In 2004/2005, the grouping together of issues into volumes switched from a Spring-Fall-Winter grouping to a Winter-Spring-Fall grouping, thereby synchronizing it with the [[calendar year]].<ref name=archives>{{cite web |url=http://www.cato.org/cato-journal/archives |accessdate=November 29, 2013 |title=Cato Journal Archives |publisher=[[Cato Institute]]}}</ref> In Fall 2021, the Cato Journal released its final issue: Vol. 41, No. 3.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Dorn |first=James A |date=Fall 2021 |title=Editor's Note |url=https://www.cato.org/cato-journal/fall-2021/editors-note |journal=The Cato Journal |volume=41 |issue=3 |pages=iii-iv}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |url=https://www.cato.org/cato-journal/fall-2021 |title=The Cato Journal: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Public Policy Analysis: Final Issue |publisher=[[Cato Institute]] |year=2021 |access-date=2023-09-23 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211016091748/https://www.cato.org/cato-journal/fall-2021 |archive-date=2021-10-16}}</ref>

==See also== *''[[Quarterly Journal of Austrian Economics]]'' * ''[[The Independent Review]]'' * ''[[Cato Unbound]]'' * [[Regulation (magazine)|''Regulation'' (magazine)]]

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==External links== *{{Official website|http://www.cato.org/pubs/journal/index.html}}

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