The Cato Institute fired me last week. After fourteen years during which I wrote four books, 38 papers, hundreds of articles, and spoke at scores of conferences, they unceremoniously dumped me at a zoom meeting like someone throwing out a wad of used tissue paper.
Their explanation was that they had reorganized their economics policy group and I no longer fit within the new organization. I hadn’t been a part of any policy group for my first eight years at Cato and fit just fine.
I should have been alerted early this year when I received a poor performance review on my previous year’s work for the first time since starting the job. The poor review had nothing to do with my actual performance and was solely because my supervisor disagreed with me on one point of housing policy. The disagreement went back to 2016, so I didn’t understand why he brought it up in the 2020 performance review. I’ll probably write about that disagreement in more detail here in the future.
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When my mother worked as a social worker for Portland Public Schools, she was laid off one year when voters rejected a school levy that funded, among other things, her job. “Social workers have an unwritten agreement that if they take on a task they’ll usually take two years,” she said. Based on that commitment, she continued to work as a volunteer so she could finish helping the children she had started working with the year before.
I have projects that feel incomplete. While I am not quite willing to work on a completely voluntary basis, I will try to raise the money to keep working for another year. Postings here might be a little thin for the next couple of weeks, but I hope to continue communicating new thoughts and ideas well into 2022.
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We will all miss your regular blogs and hope that another organization will re-employ you. We will all miss your prodigious output and reasoned research. Very sad to see you to and not happy with Cato. Is there someone we can contact at Cato to support you?
Maybe reach out to FEE, Reason, or go down the rabbit hole at Mises.
Hard to believe that Cato has anyone that works harder and puts out more information, than you do daily.
No one thinks harder than you…
Hard times for now, but CATO is a shadow of what it was
I’d look at the American Petroleum Institute, Institute of Highway Engineers, OPEC, Asphalt Manufacturer’s Association or a similar industry group that has a vested interest in freedom.
^ janehavisham F off. You think you are so F ing funny.
janehavisham
I hate CATO and I hate the Koch Brothers. The only reason I have never said that here is out of respect for O’Toole.
LMAO he still has “Cato Institute” on his list of “Faithful Allies”.
janehavisham
You are the dumbest commentator here. I Hate Cato and O’toole was the only guy at Cato I liked and read. Are you capable of even basic bitch critical thinking skills?
Aaron, why do you hate Cato? Didn’t you know it’s a Faithful Ally? But don’t believe me; look for yourself on the right sidebar.
janehavisham
They sure are a faithful ally. Just look at how loyal they were to O’Toole
It would be interesting to see who is now funding their pushes to abolish single family zoning. All you have to do is follow the money.
Another chapter ends, another begins.
Best of luck with your ne ventures, Mr. O’Toole
A wealthy friend always told me that even bad news represents an opportunity. I think this very irritating statement is true. May you find opportunity (such as a more congenial or better paying position) in your break from CATO. It is of course their loss.
When Cato says they are “reorganizing” their economics policy group, it means they are contracting it. They never seemed to have much of an interest in urban and transportation policy issues anyway. And by letting Randal go, they are confirming that they will have even less to say about it in the years to come.
I am sorry to hear this. I hope Cato isn’t becoming another Niskanen Center.
Start a substack.