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Bryan Caplan's new book disputes "The Case Against Kids," in this New Yorker article.

In this article, Professor Boudreaux points out the President's contradictory subsidies of Solyndra while imposing new tariffs on imported, foreign-made solar panels.

Don Boudreaux and Walter Williams argue that minimum-wage legislation is maximum folly (to use Williams' phrase).

Fulbright scholar Arpita Nepal is earning her master’s degree in economics at George Mason University while remaining involved in a Nepal-based non-profit organization, “Samriddhi, The Prosperity Foundation."

This semester, George Mason University economist Tyler Cowen added a slew of accomplishments to his already significant local, national and international influence.

This past November 2011 Charles K. Rowley spoke for the GMU Econ Society's The Future of Freedom Foundation event.  The title of his presentation was "Liberty and the State: A Virginia Political Economy Perspective," and was video recorded and posted on Vimeo.

Walter E. Williams and Stephen Moore write in the Wall Street Journal that cutting benefits to those who don't need them is a better way to trim deficits than hurting the economy with higher tax rates. December 9, 2011

Mason's Chris Coyne teaches us the difference between capitalism and crony capitalism in a LearnLiberty.com video entitled, Occupy Wall Street & Capitalism: A Professor's Response.

Foreign Policy presents a unique portrait of 2011's global marketplace of ideas and the thinkers who make them. Tyler Cowen is among the Foreign Policy Top 100 Global Thinkers at #72 on the list.