Mercatus Center at George Mason University will host Professor Morris Kleiner to discuss the material from his latest book, Licensing Occupations: Ensuring Quality or Restricting Competition? 

India's economy has done well in that GDP per capita has more than doubled since reforms began. However, while India and China had economies of roughly the same size in the 1950s and 1960s, China’s greater progress with market reforms and foreign direct investment since the 1970s has pushed it well out in front, increasing a remarkable 7-fold. If India's democratic institutions are more like those in the developed world, then why such a divergence? To address this important topic, the Mercatus Center at George Mason University will host Dr. Christopher Lingle, visiting professor at the Institute for International Studies at Ramkhamhaeng University in Bangkok.

To keep Congressional staffers up to date on the current economic situation, the Mercatus Center at George Mason University hosts quarterly briefings that survey the economic scene. Specific attention is paid to GDP data, employment, inflation, and interest rates, all conveyed in a way that is understandable to the economist and non-economist alike. This "birds-eye-view" of the economy will be valuable to staffers interested in promoting policies intended to aid economic performance.

 

A Welcome Reception for the 110th Congress.

For years, Russ Roberts has led a seminar on the fundamentals of trade, taking the lessons from basic economics and applying them to our economic situation. In this revised seminar, Roberts adds new insights that will help participants understand just what's at stake with trade policy and how traditional models of trade can mislead.

Russ Roberts will lead a discussion about how much we know about housing policy and the financial crisis, what factors led us to the edge of the crisis, and how we can move forward in the future.

In most current public opinion polls, health care, and specifically concern over the uninsured, ranks as one of the top three issues facing our country. For decades, Congress had considered a variety of solutions to cure this problem, but the complex nature of the issue has proven difficult to overcome. In this lecture, Dr. David Hyman will break down both the problems facing the uninsured and the different solutions that have been proposed.