 I've lived in urban environments, I've lived in suburban environments, and I've seen kind of all how those different environments interact with their communities and how their economies develop and really when I went to George Mason University that really made the institutional economic aspects that was in their econ program stand out to me. My name is Chris Myers, I'm director of external relations with the U.K. Center. I took a bit of an untraditional route to a think tank as far as how I grew up and where I learned the key factors that helped me develop to the person I am today. I was born in a small rural town in Alabama, my parents were hippies and decided to try to build their own house and grow their own food, so I spent four years in a brick house with no running water and an outhouse and lo and behold that marriage just didn't work out for various reasons and so my mother as a single mom with two kids decided to move us up to the area around George Mason University in Virginia and with the idea that she could provide a better life for us and put us in an environment where we could live up to more of our full potential. It really was a lesson in institutional economics almost, I've lived in rural environments, I've lived in urban environments, I've lived in suburban environments and I've seen kind of all how those different environments interact with their communities and how their economies develop and really when I went to George Mason University that really made the institutional economic aspects that was in their econ program stand out to me and so it was a natural progression from that econ program that I was able to pursue at George Mason to go into Mercatus and continue to work on those ideas that I believe helped create a more prosperous and free society.