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The Mercatus Center at George Mason University is a research, education, and outreach organization that works with scholars, policy experts, and government officials to connect academic learning and real world practice.

Mercatus ("mer-KAY-tus") is the Latin term used to describe the activity of markets, trade, and commerce. The choice of this classical Latin name reflects the Mercatus Center's use of market-based tools and analysis to discover workable solutions to pressing economic and governmental problems.

The mission of Mercatus is to promote sound interdisciplinary research and application in the humane sciences that integrates theory and practice to produce solutions that sustainably advance a free, prosperous, and civil society. Mercatus has several research and outreach programs: Capitol Hill Campus, the Government Accountability Project, the Regulatory Studies Program and the Global Prosperity Initiative, which support this mission by making academic analysis useful to policymakers. Mercatus also supports a number of research projects focused on bridging the gap between the textbook and the problem.

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IMPROVING CORPORATE GOVERNANCE:J.W. VERRET Congressional Testimony; 7/29/2009 ...an Assistant Professor of Law at George Mason Law School, a Senior Scholar at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University and a member of the Mercatus Center Financial Markets Working Group. I also direct the Corporate Federalism Initiative... ...more

Are small governments getting too big? Local and state governments in the U.S. may be restricting individual rights.(Government) The Futurist; 7/1/2009 ...local governments' influence over citizenry is the Mercatus Center at George Mason University. The Center's new report...Freedom" by William P. Ruger and Jason Sorens. Mercatus Center, George Mason University, 3301 North Fairfax Drive... ...more

SURPRISE! STIMULUS BILL WAS MORE ABOUT POLITICAL PAYOFFS THAN JOB CREATION. States News Service; 12/18/2009 ...Examiner summarizes the findings of the report by the Mercatus Center at George Mason University: A new analysis of the...stimulus funds allocation," said the report. The Mercatus Center analysis also found that Democratic congressional... ...more