[PEN-L:11032] Cato publishes speeches and essays of Czech prime minister Klaus

[Doug Henwood <dhenwood@xxxxxxxxx>]

For those of you not lucky enough to be on Cato's PR list. This press
release is a model for stuffing smug cliches into such a small place.

Doug

>Date: Thu, 26 Jun 1997 12:11:52 -0400 (EDT)
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>  Klaus
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>June 25, 1997
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>Cato publishes speeches and essays of Czech prime minister Klaus
>An indispensable volume for those concerned with substituting a free society
>for state power
>
>As nations around the world, including the United States, struggle with
>expanding government power and declining civil and economic liberty, the
>Cato Institute has brought the experiences of Czech prime minister Václav
>Klaus to the English-speaking world. Cato has published 29 of Klaus's
>English-language speeches and essays in a volume titled Renaissance: The
>Rebirth of Liberty in the Heart of Europe.
>
>"The Cato Institute is proud to be associated with this important book,"
>said Cato president Edward Crane. "Václav Klaus is the most successful
>leader of a postcommunist nation in Europe. His leadership and vision have
>transformed one of the most Stalinist states of the Warsaw bloc into the
>most vibrant and open society in the region."
>
>The speeches and essays, collected for the first time in this volume,
>examine the 1989 "Velvet Revolution" that brought the collapse of communism
>in what was then Czechoslovakia. Klaus addresses the process of
>transformation and the Czech Republic's place in Europe and the world.
>Chapter titles include "Transforming toward a Free Society"; "The Ten
>Commandments of Systemic Reform"; "The Quality of Life, the Environment, and
>Systemic Change"; and "Margaret Thatcher and the Czech Republic."
>
>In an essay titled "The University of Chicago and I," Klaus writes, "We have
>definitely crossed the Rubicon and entered the post-transformation stage
>with a privatized, liberalized, deregulated economy; with a balanced budget,
>low unemployment and inflation; and with other favorable macroeconomic
>results. I have had no dreams about so-called third ways, about perestroika,
>about the reformability of communism."
>
>Klaus's experience in the Czech Republic has much to teach Americans,
>according to Crane. "This volume should provide inspiration for citizens in
>contemporary welfare states¾also faced with a task held by some to be
>hopeless¾for undoing the disaster of welfare statism. Happily, the moral
>vision and the scientific understanding that Václav Klaus brings to bear on
>seemingly intractable problems are now available to the English-speaking
>world."
>
>
>Contact:
>Dave Quast, director of public affairs, 202-789-5266
>Dan Greenberg, director of communications, 202-789-5225
>
>To order copies of the book ($9.95 paper, $18.95 cloth), call 800-767-1241
>