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THE WEIDENBAUM CENTER is a non-profit, nonpartisan research organization at Washington University in St. Louis. Founded in 1975, it is recognized nationwide. The Weidenbaum Center supports scholarly research in the fields of economics, government and public policy. It works closely with the Department of Economics, the Department of Political Science, and other academic units of Washington University.

The Center’s public policy efforts consist of a multifaceted program of research, forums, retreats, publications, and online resources. These programs reach a wide audience of influential individuals in business, government, academia, and the national media. They educate policy-makers, journalists and the general public on policy issues at the intersection of business and government.

Reforming the Presedential Nomination Process

Reforming The Nominating Process
By Steven S. Smith and Melanie J. Springer, eds., Brookings Institution Press 2009 c. 260pp. The 2008 U.S. presidential campaign has provided a lifetime's worth of surprises. Once again, however, the nomination process highlighted the importance of organization, political prowess, timing, and money.... [more]

Program Areas
  Multinational Enterprises and the Global Economy
  Citizenship, Civil Society, and Democratic Values
 

American Politics

  Macroeconomic Policy

 

Regulator's BudgetU.S. Regulatory Spending
Expansion of Regulatory Budget and Staffing Continues in the New Administration: An Analysis of the U.S. Budget for Fiscal Years 2009 and 2010, an annual report on federal regulatory spending and staffing by the Weidenbaum Center’s Melinda Warren and Mercatus Center’s Veronique de Rugy tracks the expenditures of federal regulatory agencies and the staff needed to run these agencies. Federal regulatory agencies will spend $55.8 billion of U.S. taxpayers’ money in 2010, an inflation adjusted increase of 3.2 percent over the 2009 budget.  In addition, the number of regulatory employees will increase 2.3 percent to 272,475 full-time equivalent employees. 


Competition of IdeasCompetition of Ideas
American Enterprise Institute and the Center for Strategic and International Studies, Brookings Institution, the Cato Institute, Heritage Foundation — Murray Weidenbaum has been a visiting scholar to each of these organizations. In The Competition of Ideas, Weidenbaum examines the political economy of these vital institutions, drawing on several decades of involvement with these organizations. This book presents a careful, balanced account of where think tanks have been and where they are now headed. [more]

   
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