About Capitol Hill Campus
Economics is everywhere. It’s at the gas pump, in foreign aid, in the fluctuation of currency values. Economics is not just graphs and charts. It’s real-world knowledge about the decisions people make and the effects of those decisions.
Incentives affect the choices people make. Some basic social and political structures facilitate prosperity. These are some of the core economic concepts that policy makers must understand to be effective. Unfortunately, a gap often exists between economic understanding and real-world decision making. Policy decisions miss their targets and create unintended and sometimes harmful consequences.
For over 25 years, the Mercatus Center at George Mason University has sought to bridge this gap. Mercatus applies scholarly research to the problems facing policy makers. Bringing together a network of scholars and experts from around the globe, the Mercatus Center provides policy makers with the economic tools to make sense of today’s most pressing issues. Mercatus turns ideas into action.
The Mercatus Center is a 501(c)(3) tax exempt organization.
Capitol Hill Campus
Capitol Hill Campus is the central 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 does this through academic courses and other programs held on Capitol Hill.
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