Jeffrey Miron: Obamanomics -- Growing the Pie or Dividing the Pie?

Come out to the first installment of the Economic Liberty Lecture Series of the semester with Harvard economist Jeffrey Miron!

Economic Liberty Lecture Series --
Dinner, Lecture, and Social Hour

DATE: February 8, 2010 – Monday
PLACE: George Mason University (Fairfax campus) - Johnson Center Cinema

5:30 pm – Pizza
6:00 pm – Talk with Q&A
8:00 pm – Social hour at Brion's Grille
ADMISSION: FREE

SPEAKER: Jeffrey Miron

Jeffrey A. Miron is a Senior Fellow at the Cato Institute and the Director of Undergraduate Studies in the Department of Economics at Harvard University. His area of expertise is the economics of libertarianism, with particular emphasis on the economics of illegal drugs. Miron has served on the faculty at the University of Michigan and as a visiting professor at the Sloan School of Management, M.I.T. and the Department of Economics, Harvard University. From 1992-1998, he was chairman of the Department of Economics at Boston University. He is the author of Drug War Crimes: The Consequences of Prohibition and The Economics of Seasonal Cycles, in addition to numerous opeds and journal articles. He has been the recipient of an Olin Fellowship from the National Bureau of Economic Research, an Earhart Foundation Fellowship, and a Sloan Foundation Faculty Research Fellowship. Miron received a B.A., magna cum laude, from Swarthmore College in 1979 and a Ph.D. in economics from M.I.T. in 1984.

Social Hour:
Come join us at a social hour at Brion's Grille in Fairfax, Virginia, right next to George Mason University - 10621 Braddock Road, Fairfax, VA 22030 (703) 352-7272

Presented by:

GMU Econ Society

The Future of Freedom Foundation
www.fff.org fff@fff.org (703) 934-6101

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January Upcoming Events

GMU Economics Society First Meeting
Thursday, January 21st at 6pm
Enterprise 318 (conference room) -- GMU Fairfax Campus
Learn about how you can become more involved in the Econ Society & if you have ideas for the Spring semester, come prepared to share them at the meeting! :)


Global Warming Realities & Fantasies
Friday, January 22nd at 4pm
F.A. Hayek Auditorium at the Cato Institute
1000 Massachusetts Avenue, N.W. Washington D.C. 20001
Cato scholar, Climatologist and Environmental Scientist Patrick Michaels will puts the facts straight about global warming and will tackle the up-and-coming climate change legislation on Capitol Hill.

For more details and to register, visit the facebook event:
http://www.facebook.com/#/event.php?eid=244182689711&ref=ts
or
http://www.cato.org/events/100122sf.html


Internship & Seminar Information Session
Wednesday, January 27th at 6pm
Enterprise 318 -- GMU Fairfax Campus
Looking for an internship for Summer 2010? Come out to the Internship Information Session to meet with internship coordinators and learn about some of the greatest internship programs, including: the Koch Summer Fellowship Program (Public Policy Internship), IHS Internships and Seminars, IHS film, production and journalism opportunities, the Koch Internship Program (in DC), Cato Institute internships, FEE internships and seminars, and more!

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