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Capital Campus California

Capital Campus California brings the university classroom to Sacramento.

Capital Campus California is the Mercatus Center's main outreach program for state policy makers in Sacramento. This burgeoning program educates Californian decision makers about the workings of our market economy. The university-based program lends an academic approach to important state policy questions and works to bridge the often distinct worlds of theory and practice.

Capital Campus California is a partnership between the Berkeley Center for Law, Business and the Economy (BCLBE) and the Mercatus Center at George Mason University. To learn more about the connection between BCLBE and the Mercatus Center, listen to this introduction given by Lawson Bader, Vice President of the Mercatus Center and Dr. Robert Cooter of BCLBE.

Past Courses

• The New Knowledge Economy: Increasing Competitiveness in the Golden State

• E-Transparency: Google for Government

• Avoiding the Crunch: New Ideas for Addressing Budget Deficits

• State Budget Woes: Best Practices from Around the Country

• Rebuilding in the Wake of Crisis: Lessons from Hurricane Recovery

• When Disaster Strikes: Creating Sustainable Land Management Policy 

• 2007 Capital Campus California Fall Retreat

• Education Reform & Finance in California

• What Should California Hope to Achieve from AB32?

• The Future of Health Care in California

• 2007 Capital Campus California Retreat

• Foundations of Law and Policy for Economic Growth in California

• Weather, Traffic, Housing Prices & Health Care: The Role of Unintended Consequences in Policy Design

• California: The Role of the State in Disaster Response
  

• Telecom Policy in the Golden State
  

• Sustainable Prosperity: Keeping California Competitive
  

• California Infrastructure Spending: the Seen and the Unseen