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Wade Channell

Senior Legal Reform Advisor, U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID)

Wade Channell is a Senior Legal Reform Advisor for the U.S. Agency for International Development where he covers business environment and regulatory reform issues as part of the economic growth agenda. After practicing international commercial law for eight years,…

Michael J. Clark

Assistant Professor, Hillsdale College

Michael J. Clark received his Ph.D. in economics from George Mason University in 2011 and is currently an Assistant Professor at Hillsdale College.

Jay Cochran

Jay Cochran is an adjunct professor of economics at George Mason University. He holds a PhD in Economics from George Mason University and an MBA from Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University.

Christopher J. Conover

Mercatus Center Affiliated Senior Scholar
Research Scholar in the Center for Health Policy & Inequalities Research at Duke University

Christopher J. Conover is an affiliated senior scholar at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University and a research scholar at the Center for Health Policy & Inequalities Research at Duke University.

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Bruce Yandle

The nation's economy at mid-year is operating like a three-lane expressway with one lane closed. GDP growth is breaking 2.0% when it should be 3.0%. But worse than that, the cars moving in the two open lanes are running on borrowed fuel that will someday have to be paid back.

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Maurice P. McTigue

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In The Media

Does Google Want to Take Over the World?

"It [an incentive program geared toward a specific company] tends to undermine competition and lead to monopolistic behavior, so that means higher prices for consumers, potentially higher profits for producers,"

Even Pessimists Feel Optimistic About the American Economy

Like most academic economists, Mr. Cowen focuses on the next quarter-century rather than the next quarter. But new technologies like artificial intelligence and online education, increased domestic energy production and slowing growth in the cost of health care have prompted Mr. Cowen to reappraise the country’s prospects.

Recently Published Books

Liberalism and Cronyism: Two Rival Political and Economic Systems

Randall G. Holcombe, Andrea Castillo | Apr 23, 2013

By examining how real governments have operated, this book demonstrates why—despite their diverse designs—in practice all political and economic systems are variants of either liberalism or cronyism.

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