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The Mercatus Center, part of George Mason University, is one of the best-funded think tanks in the United States at the moment. It is listed as "sister organization" to the Institute of Humane Studies. "Mercatus generates knowledge and understanding of how institutions affect the freedom to prosper and holds organizations accountable for their impact on that freedom," it states on its website. [1]

The Mercatus Center has engaged in campaigns involving deregulation, especially environmental deregulation.

Contents 1 History 2 Regulatory Studies Program 2.1 Personnel 2.2 Board of Advisors 3 Executive Staff 4 Backlinks 5 Contact Information 6 External links

History

The Mercatus Center was founded as the Center for Market Processes by Rich Fink, executive vice president of Koch Industries and former president of the Koch Foundations, who went on to found Citizens for a Sound Economy. In the early 1980s the center moved to George Mason University. It merged with the Center for the Study of Public Choice during 1998 to become the James M. Buchanan Center for Political Economy. The Mercatus Center brand was developed in 1999 from the JBC.

Regulatory Studies Program

Personnel

• Wendy Lee Gramm, Chair
• Susan E. Dudley, Director
• Brian Mannix, Senior Research Fellow
• Jay Cochran III, Research Fellow
• Jerry Ellig
• Jonathan H. Adler - From August 2005 to July 2006 - Visiting Senior Scholar.

Board of Advisors

• C. Boyden Gray, Former White House Counsel and Wilmer, Cutler & Pickering
• Sidney E. Harris, Dean, J. Mack Robinson College of Business, Georgia State University
• Christopher Hill, Vice Provost for Research, George Mason University
• Thomas Hopkins, Dean of Business, Rochester Institute of Technology
• Steven Manaster, Dean, College of Business and Administration, University of Colorado
• Susan Phillips, Former Governor of the Federal Reserves Board; Dean, School of Business and Public Management, The George Washington University
• Vernon L. Smith, Professor of Economics and Law, Interdisciplinary Center for Economic Science (ICES), George Mason University
• W. Kip Viscusi, John F. Cogan, Jr. Professor of Law & Economics, Harvard Law School

Executive Staff

• Frank Atkinson, Chairman, McGuireWoods Consulting, LLC
• Tyler Cowen, General Director, Mercatus Center [2]
• Richard Fink, Executive Vice President, Koch Industries [3]
• Manuel Johnson, Co-Chairman, Johnson Smick Group
• Charles Koch, Chairman and CEO, Koch Industries, Inc.
• Dwight Schar, Chairman and CEO, NVR, Inc.
• Roger Silk, CEO, Sterling Foundation Management
• Vernon L. Smith, Professor of Economics and Law

Backlinks

• Wendy Gramm
• Timothy J. Roemer
• Phil Gramm
• GOP,Inc.
• George Mason University
• Jennifer Zambone
• Vernon L. Smith

Contact Information

Mercatus Center
George Mason University
3301 North Fairfax Drive, Suite 450
Arlington, VA 22201-4433
tel: (703) 993-4930
  1-800-815-5711
Fax: (703) 993-4935
web site: www.mercatus.org

External links

• "George Mason University", Media Transparency (includes donations for the 'Mercatus Center')
• Bob Davis, "Rule Breaker: In Washington, tiny think tank wields big stick on regulation", Wall Street Journal, July 16, 2004.