“I am obliged to cry: ‘Stop!’ Your theory has stopped at what is seen and takes no account of what is not seen.” - Frederic Bastiat

The Unseen and The Unsaid is a newsletter about economic freedom, fiscal policy, and common-sense policy reforms. While the focus is primarily on fiscal sustainability and tax reform, we plan to discuss the unseen impacts of all government interventions. These unintended consequences of Big Government are not only unseen, but are frequently left unsaid.

We hope to bring these to light in three primary ways:

  • Long form discussions on policy discussions

  • Short reactions to explain what’s going on and why it matters

  • Research summaries of important research in the academy, as well as the work we do as a team

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Meet the Team

Jack Salmon is a Research Fellow at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University, where he focuses on economic and fiscal policy, with an emphasis on federal budgets, taxation, economic growth, and institutional analysis. He was previously Director of Policy Research at the Philanthropy Roundtable. Hailing from the U.K., Jack graduated from King’s College London with a MA in political economy.

Veronique de Rugy is the George Gibbs Chair in Political Economy and a Senior Research Fellow at Mercatus as well as a nationally syndicated columnist. Her primary research interests include the US economy, the federal budget, taxation, tax competition, and cronyism. She received her MA in economics from the Paris Dauphine University and her PhD in economics from the Panthéon-Sorbonne University.

Susannah Barnes Petitt is a Program Manager for the Fiscal and Labor Policy teams at Mercatus. Her work focuses on social mobility and how policies uniquely affect families. She received her MA in economics from George Mason University

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Jack Salmon is a Research Fellow at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University, where he focuses on economic and fiscal policy, with an emphasis on federal budgets, taxation, economic growth, and institutional analysis.
Susannah Petitt is the Program Manager for the Fiscal and Labor Policy teams at the Mercatus Center