Online magazine, Columbus CEO , recently featured the Turner College's Butler Center for Research and Economic Development and its Director, Turner College economist Fady Mansour . "The Butler Center is working to support and help local government agencies and nonprofit organizations make effective, data-driven decisions. We make economic impact studies to help them bring new capital to the region and optimize the return on public spending," Mansour explained. Be sure to check out the feature using the link above.
The application of game theory and related mathematical approaches to explain decision-making processes of the U.S. Supreme Court is not new. Attempts to quantitatively model decisions of the U.S. Supreme court can be traced back to the mid-twentieth century. A new study by Turner College economist Frank Mixon and his co-authors Rand Ressler of Georgia Southern University and Benno Torgler of Queensland University of Technology extends the constitutional economics literature by focusing on the recent and much discussed U.S. Supreme Court ruling to overturn Roe v. Wade and, therefore, the constitutional right to an abortion. Mixon et al. focus their analysis on Justice Samuel Alito's now-famous 2022 draft opinion on Roe v. Wade , which, they argue, may have been leaked to Politico by a clerk to a conservative Supreme Court justice. According to the study, which is set to appear in a future issue of the Review of Behavioral Economics , t his possibility focuses on news reports in