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Cato, Take Two

Jesse Walker | 7.29.2003 5:08 AM

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Last week some analysts at the Cato Institute surprised me by endorsing trade barriers in the medicine market. Today the other shoe dropped: Cato's president and one of its vice presidents came down on the other side of the issue, with a well-reasoned case for pharmaceutical free trade.

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Jesse Walker is books editor at Reason and the author of Rebels on the Air and The United States of Paranoia.

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