Well, good afternoon.

Thank you all for joining us.

My name is Dan Rothschild.

I'm the Senior Vice President and Chief Operating Officer at the Mercatus Center at George

Mason University.

Thank you all for joining us for what is, uh, should be an interesting event.

The latest in our conversations with Tyler's series with our special guest today, Professor

Jeffrey Sachs from Columbia University.

The Mercatus Center is the world's premier university-based resource for market-oriented

ideas.

And our mission at the Mercatus Center is to bridge the gap between academic research

and real-world public policy questions in Washington, states, and local governments, and

indeed around the world.

And today's event is, uh, in aid of that.

The conversations with Tyler's series is all about bringing together world-class thought

leaders who are thinking big thoughts about important ideas for conversations with the

general director of the Mercatus Center.

With that, it's my pleasure to introduce Tyler Cowan.

Tyler is the Holbert L. Harris Professor of Economics at George Mason University.

He also along with Alex Taburak is the co-blogger at marginalrevolution.com, uh, one of the country's

premier, uh, premier, uh, econ blogs.

And with Alex is the co-creator of marginal revolution university, an innovative online

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