A lot of doom and gloom types say we’re living in dark times. But they’re wrong.
While there are real problems, the world has never been healthier, wealthier, and happier than it is today. Over a billion people have been lifted from dire poverty in just the past few decades.
What has contributed to this improvement of our well-being? The answer can be found in the evolution of economic and policy ideas.
But we can still do better. How will we solve today’s challenges and what breakthroughs will spark change tomorrow?
How can we provide better health for more people, at lower cost, year after year? Mercatus Center videos on health care topics from Certificate of Need laws to the Affordable Care Act
Book panels, lectures, and more from the F. A. Hayek Program for Advanced Study in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University
The F.A. Hayek supports scholars who work at the intersection of the Austrian, Virginia, and Bloomington schools of political economy and whose scholarship pays particular attention to the connections and relationships between economics and such other branches of the humane studies as law, politics, philosophy, and history.