SPP Currents

Philanthropy is more than wealthy people giving their money away. It’s a defining institution of American-style capitalism.

Policymakers want easy-to understand conclusions from even the most complicated research. In a recent Brown Bag seminar, Mason Policy Professor Zoltan Acs illustrated how a statistical index can help economists present complex systems in simpler forms. “The aim of all of these indices is to take a whole bunch of phenomena, distill it and come up with one number,” he said.