Websites
Economic Recovery Digest
The financial crisis of 2007-2008 was a historic period in the history of the United States. It generated a lot of interest among policymakers, regulators, and citizens. Consequently, the Mercatus Center’s Financial Markets Working Group, launched the Economic Recovery Digest blog, to help inform an interested audience. The Economic Recovery Digest provides updates on the financial crisis, actions by the federal government intended to curb the crisis, commentary on the causes of the crisis, opinions about policy solutions, and views on the economic recovery process.
Neighborhood Effects
Neighborhood Effects is a blog about American state and local economic policy and political economy issues, focusing on a variety of issues related to federalism, tax and budget, public sector spending, infrastructure, urban life, and economic policy.
Capitol Hill Campus
Capitol Hill Campus is the federal outreach program of the Mercatus Center at George Mason University. The program bridges the gap between scholarship and policy by making academic research and methods available to policy makers, and grounding academics by making them aware of policy makers’ need for relevant analysis of public policy issues. Mercatus accomplishes this mission via policy focused academic courses held on Capitol Hill. These lectures are captured on video and then made available to the public through this Podcast.
Inside State & Local Policy
Inside State and Local Policy is a podcast hosted by the Mercatus Center at George Mason University focused on economics at the state and local level of government. This podcast is a resource for state policy makers, the media, and others with an interest in state issues and innovative solutions to the issues facing all states. Each brief episode features conversations with policy scholars, elected officials and other practitioners. Our goal is to bridge the gap between policy theory and policy making and provide state policy makers with scholarly analysis on the potential outcomes of legislative and regulatory reforms. This podcast is hosted by the Mercatus Center’s Director of Economic Education, James C. Musser.
Surprisingly Free
Surprisingly Free is the online home of the Technology Policy Program at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University. At Surprisingly Free you will find articles from Mercatus Center scholars and guest bloggers, as well as aggregated posts from academics around the web. You can also listen to and subscribe to our weekly audio podcast, Surprisingly Free Conversations. Hosted by Jerry Brito, the show features in-depth one-on-one discussions with an eclectic mix of authors, professors, entrepreneurs, and other thinkers and doers at the intersection of technology, policy, and economics.
Institutions Matter: Can New Jersey Reverse Course?
In 2009, New Jersey faces the most severe fiscal and economic crisis in its history. “Institutions Matter: Can New Jersey Reverse Course?” is a comprehensive, bottom-up review of the public finances of the state of New Jersey. Years of spending growth, increasing mandates, and expanding use of intergovernmental aid and debt have inflated the size and cost of government, leading to dramatic increases in taxation at all levels. The state’s recovery hinges on reforming the rules under which its officials budget. In short, re-establishing fiscal prudence, and reducing the size and scope of government. This paper offers suggestions for reforming the state’s budget and tax systems to put New Jersey and other states similarly situated back on the path to prosperity.
Local Knowledge II
In 2005 the Mercatus Center launched a five-year project to follow the long-term redevelopment of the Gulf Coast after Hurricane Katrina. Our inquiry seeks to determine the roles that public, commercial, and non-profit sectors play in rebuilding communities affected by large scale catastrophes. This edition of Local Knowledge explores and discusses the role that the non-profit sector, volunteers, and social entrepreneurs are playing in rebuilding the Gulf Coast and what policy makers can do to help communities become more resilient to future disasters.
