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The Mercatus Center at @GeorgeMasonU is the world’s premier university source for market-oriented ideas.
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    May 28
    More Americans are building working lives outside the traditional 9-to-5. These are some of their stories. In her new feature, @MissLiyaP follows workers balancing flexibility, uncertainty, and the search for stability on their own terms. Read more: bit.ly/3RsfuQE
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    Oct 7, 2025
    Attention inframarginal Marginal Revolution podcast listeners! @ATabarrok and @tylercowen are pleased to bring you an episode covering some of their favorite economic models: Spence on monopolies, Harberger on tax incidence, and Solow on growth. Per Spence (1975)—or was it
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    Sep 23, 2025
    In Praise of Commercial Culture is the 1998 book that put @tylercowen on the map as a public intellectual. But publishers rejected it for years. Until Thomas Schelling intervened. In this episode of the Marginal Revolution Podcast, @ATabarrok sits down with Tyler to revisit
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    Jul 7, 2018
    Businesses with 50 or more employees are subject to the #ACA's employer mandate. Nationwide, between 28,000 and 50,000 small businesses appear to have reduced their number of full-time employees to fewer than 50 because of the mandate.
    The Employer Penalty, Voluntary Compliance, and the Size Distribution of Firms
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    Apr 28, 2025
    Dean Ball (@deanwball) recently left Mercatus to join the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy as a senior policy advisor on AI and emerging technology. Just before he finished packing up his office, we caught up with him to reflect on his time here: “When it
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    Aug 19, 2017
    Despite popular rhetoric, America's infrastructure isn't crumbling: merct.us/2icGu5E
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    Jan 2, 2018
    Want to live in a sunny state with a free economy? Try Florida: forbes.com/sites/adammill…
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    Jan 29, 2024
    We’re excited to announce Jeremy Horpedahl has joined Mercatus as a Visiting Scholar with our Fiscal Studies Program. @jmhorp’s research will focus on public finance, with an emphasis on tax policy.
    Mercatus Welcomes Jeremy Horpedahl as a Visiting Scholar
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    Oct 11, 2024
    In the latest episode of The Marginal Revolution Podcast, @ATabarrok and @tylercowen discuss how Armen Alchian used stock market analysis to determine the key ingredient of the atom bomb.
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    Apr 25, 2017
    "The greatest advances of civilization, whether in architecture or painting...have never come from centralized government."
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    Dec 13, 2024
    Automation isn’t killing jobs—it’s transforming them! @MissLiyaP explains how port workers, much like blacksmiths before them, aren’t disappearing but evolving into higher-skilled roles. While the media often focuses on job losses, research shows that workers frequently
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    Dec 27, 2018
    With populism on the rise, capitalism under attack, and socialism back in vogue, the work of Austrian economist Friedrich Hayek is more relevant than ever. @PeterBoettke discusses his recent book on Hayek with @nickgillespie on the @reason podcast: merct.us/2ymleQw
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    Oct 21, 2025
    .@ATabarrok thinks the Baumol effect is a very deep and important insight. @tylercowen thinks it's an ex-post tautology that doesn't have much predictive power. But they both agree it explains childcare. Will healthcare get cheaper in quality-adjusted terms? Can robots save us
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    Mar 31, 2019
    In 1974, Milton Friedman said, "You must separate out being 'pro-free enterprise' from being 'pro-business.'" A new Mercatus survey shows this distinction is just as important today as it was back then: merct.us/2V6qTDE #CultureofFavoritism
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