NEW VIDEO
The financial regulatory reform bill has fallen under recent criticism for not addressing the root causes of the financial crisis. How will this bill affect the current financial regulatory environment? How can Congress make this bill work to address the underlying issues of the current crisis?
UPCOMING EVENTS
There are systemic problems with Federal-State transfers which cause and exacerbate budget problems for both parties. Mercatus Scholars Eileen Norcross and Matt Mitchell explain what these problems are, and how to avoid them, while still pursuing necessary policy goals.
The Social Change Project at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University presents a lecture by Emily Chamlee-Wright, Senior Scholar at the Mercatus Center and Nona Martin, Affiliated Senior Scholar at the Mercatus Center. After an introduction by Peter Boettke, Dr. Chamlee-Wright will discuss her recent work on both the nature of post-disaster recovery and the nature of the social order itself – how societies are able to achieve a level of complex social coordination that far exceeds our ability to design. The talk will be based on her recent book, The Cultural and Political Economy of Recovery: Social Learning in a Post-Disaster Environment (Routledge, 2010). Ms. Martin will follow with a discussion of her recent work in the oral history of reconstruction and recovery from Hurricane Katrina. The talk will be based on How We Came Back: Voices from Post-Katrina New Orleans, co-written with Prof. Chamlee-Wright.
IN THE MEDIA
Todd Zywicki was quoted on swipe-fee restrictions in The Washington Times.
Bruce Yandle has a guest post at Reuteurs about how an education deficit is contributing to high unemployment.
RECENTLY PUBLISHED BOOKS
When government refuses to make itself transparent and open and fails to make public information meaningfully available, hackers will liberate the data. It has happened many times over, and it will doubtlessly happen again. Each time government data is freed, citizens gain useful access to valuable information that rightly belongs to them. But perhaps more importantly, government is forced to deal with the new reality of a networked world in which the people demand free online access to public information.
