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Economics major, Fatma Gdoura, is setting herself up for a robust career in Development Economics and Immigration Studies through her coursework, internships, and a fellowship with the Mercatus Center.

Economics major Evan Cypher loves big data, the idea that it's statistics, computer science and mathematics, “all rolled into one.”

The Interdisciplinary Center for Economic Science (ICES) at George Mason University will host the inaugural conference on Theory and Experiments in Monetary Economics (TEME).

In the Economist, Mason's Johnson, Koyama, Leeson, and Russ are mentioned for their research on the economic reasoning behind witch hunts.

In the World Economic Forum, Eskil Ullberg, adjunct professor of economics, writes an op-ed with Edmund Phelps, Nobel laureate in economics 2006. They discuss how a rules-based global trade system for patents could improve productivity growth for developed and developing countries alike.

Recent metrics rank the Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization as the number one most influential journal in Game Theory and Decision Science. Professor Dan Houser serves as the journal’s co-editor-in-chief.

In Newsweek, Professor Bryan Caplan discusses student debt and addresses a potential solution to reform student loan programs.

In 1993, Dr. Walter Williams, John M. Olin Distinguished Professor of Economics and 1986 Nobel Economist Dr. James Buchanan discussed the legitimate role of government in society in this Idea Channel Discussion episode.

Professor Dan Klein’s paper on Jordan Peterson and postmodernism makes SSRN weekly top five.

In The Week, Damon Linker explains how the foundation of democracy in America is based on classical liberal ideas, the complications that can arise, and what modern liberalism looks like today.