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Economic regulations focus of Koford Lecture
9:03 a.m., March 9, 2007--The third annual Koford Lecture, which honors the late Kenneth J. Koford, former director of the University of Delaware's Legal Studies Program, will be held at 4 p.m., Thursday, March 15, in 115 Purnell Hall. The speaker will be Sam Peltzman, the Ralph and Dorothy Keller Distinguished Service Professor of Economics at the University of Chicago, and he will speak on “Regulation and the Wealth of Nations.” Peltzman is on the faculty of the Graduate School of Business at the University of Chicago and is director of the George J. Stigler Center for the Study of the Economy and State. He is a renowned expert on the economics of regulation and government activity. Peltzman is the author of the book Political Participation and Government Regulation (University of Chicago Press, 1998) and the articles "Prices Rise Faster than they Fall" in the Journal of Political Economy, “The Political Economy of the Decline of American Public Education: Non-College Bound Students" in the Journal of Law and Economics, "Voters as Fiscal Conservatives" in the Quarterly Journal of Economics, and many other scholarly works. Peltzman has taught at the University of California Los Angeles, the Institute for Advanced Study at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and was faculty research fellow with the National Bureau of Economic Research. He was senior staff economist on the President's Council of Economic Advisers from 1970-71. The lecture series is co-sponsored by the Department of Economics in the Lerner College of Business and Economics. For more information, call (302) 831-0367. |
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