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Economic Growth
Recent Publications:  | Book Review of Dead Aid: Why Aid Is Not Working and How There Is a Better Way for Africa
November 16, 2009
Journal Articles
Johan van der Walt | | Dambisa Moyo’s new book, Dead Aid: Why Aid Is Not Working and How There Is a Better Way for Africa, has received a great deal of attention in the last few months. Moyo’s book is a must-read for any person interested in the question of why some countries are rich while others remain stagnant or poor.
| | Economic Freedom, Culture, and Growth 
October 23, 2009
Working Papers
Claudia Williamson, Rachel Mathers | | How do economic freedom and culture impact economic growth? This paper argues that culture and economic institutions, specifically economic freedom, both play a role in economic development independently, but the strength of their impact can only be better understood when both are included in the growth regression.
| | With Friends Like These, Who Needs Enemies? Aiding the World's Worst Dictators - Working Paper
September 24, 2008
Working Papers
Christopher Coyne, Matt E. Ryan | | Despite rhetoric supporting liberal values and institutions, the governments of developed countries provide continued development and military assistance to the world's worst dictators.
| | Europe's Brave New World: Security Implications of Global Population Changes, 2007-2050
September 12, 2008
Working Papers
Jack Goldstone | | This paper examines four major trends in global population that are likely to pose significant security challenges to Europe in the next two decades.
| | Entrepreneurship, Institutions, and Economic Growth
September 8, 2008
Journal Articles
Frederic Sautet | | This paper provides a brief view of growth and social change taken from the perspective of the entrepreneurial process and Austrian economics.
| | The Next Silicon Valley? On the Relationship Between Geographical Clustering and Public Policy
August 29, 2008
Journal Articles
Frederic Sautet, Gert-Jan Hospers, Pierre Desrochers | | This paper critically assesses the relationship between geographical clustering and public policy. With the help of a range of theoretical insights and case study examples we show that cluster policy in fact is a risky\ venture, especially when it is tried to copy the success of regional ‘best practices’.
| | Do Federal Matching Funds Inhibit State Growth?
August 22, 2008
Working Papers
Antony Davies, Rossen Valchev | | Employing data for the state of Texas from 1963 through 2006, this workding paper concludes that increases in FMFs lead to lower state economic growth.
| | The “New” Fatal Conceit: The Errors of Foreign Intervention
August 12, 2008
Working Papers
Christopher Coyne | | The fatal conceit is the assumption the world can be shaped according to human desires. With the collapse of socialism, central planning has been discredited as a viable means of economic organization. However, the fatal conceit of central planning continues through foreign interventions in the form of foreign aid and foreign military interventions.
|  | Lessons from Business Improvement Districts: Building on Past Successes
June 30, 2008
Mercatus Policy Series
Eileen Norcross, Kyle McKenzie, Robert Nelson | | This Policy Primer provides basic background information on the history, legal framework, and past successes of BIDs, information that local governments interested in promoting BIDs within their jurisdictions might find useful. It further proposes alternative ways urban governments could give BIDs enhanced roles in local governance.
|  | Why Europe: The Rise of the West in World History, 1500-1850
June 17, 2008
Books
Jack Goldstone | | Part of McGraw-Hill's Explorations in World History series, this brief and accessible volume explores one of the biggest questions of recent historical debate: how among all of Eurasia’s interconnected centers of power, it was Europe that came to dominate much of the world. | | View More |
Upcoming Events: | The Center Cannot Hold: Shifts in the Global Center of Gravity
Mercatus Event December 2, 200912:30 PM
| | The Social Change Project at the Mercatus Center presents a lecture by Jack Goldstone, Professor of Public Policy at George Mason University and Director of the Center for Global Policy. Professor Goldstone will discuss the implications of the coming shifts in global economic power.
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