Stephen Davies discusses the course of world history since 1250 and the "end" of Western Civilization.

Mercatus Center supporters and friends are invited to join us for our 11th Annual Retreat in Phoenix, AZ. This event is by invitation only.

To keep Congressional staffers up to date on the current economic situation, the Mercatus Center hosts quarterly briefings that survey the current economic scene. Special attention is paid to inflation, GDP, unemployment, and interest rates. Hosted by Dr. Bruce Yandle, one of our most popular speakers, these quarterly briefings are free of charge and open to all congressional staffers.

Jerry Brito turns his efforts to an area of government badly in need of transparency and accountability: earmarks.

The only way for New Jersey to make its pension system sustainable, and to keep its promise to public sector workers, is to follow the private sector’s lead and move to a defined contribution pension system.

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.