LOWE INSTITUTE OF POLITICAL ECONOMY

Events and Conferences

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Southern California Applied Microeconomics Conference - April 2010

The one-day conference will be held at the Claremont Colleges Friday, April 16, 2010. We invite paper submissions from all colleges and universities in Southern California. For more information, click here.

2010 Lowe Institute March Madness Game

The Lowe Institute of Political Economy would like to invite all CMC students to participate in its First Annual NCAA Men and Women's March Madness Tournament Game. The Lowe Institute will hold an information and demonstration session Monday, March 8, 2010 at 8PM to show students how they can build a model to predict games in Excel and participate in the game. If you are not able to make the information session on Monday night and would like to participate in the game, please send Professor Weidenmier an email: mweidenmier@cmc.edu. Looking forward to seeing you Monday!

CIVITAS - Spring Schedule 2010

The Lowe Institute of Political Economy and Salvatori Center for the Study of Individual Freedom in the Modern World present CIVITAS – a society established to encourage discussion and increase awareness of central issues in economics and politics. CIVITAS will feature several documentaries on political economy during the semester. Each documentary will be followed by a short lecture and discussion with a faculty member.

Lowe-Athenaeum Speaker Series 2009-10

The Lowe Institute and the Athenaeum co-sponsor an economics lecture series to bring distinguished speakers to CMC to discuss important public policy issues. Reception begins at 5:30 p.m. followed by dinner at 6:00 p.m. Unless noted, all programs begin at 6:45 p.m. in the Athenaeum and end at 8:30 p.m. For reseravations, click here.

Sylvia Ann Hewlett - Founder and President, Center for Work-Life Policy, Director, Gender and Policy Program, Columbia University; author, Top Talent: Keeping Performance Up When Business is Down (2009); Monday, October 5, 2009 - "Making Smart Choices in Life and Work"

Steven Levitt - William B. Ogden Distinguished Service Professor of Economics at the University of Chicago,Director of the Becker Center on Chicago Price Theory; co-author of NY Times Bestseller: "Freakonomics", co-author of NY Times Freakonomics Blog; "Thursday, October 22, 2009 - "Superfreakonomics"

Gordon Hanson - Professor of Economics; Director, Center on Pacific Economies, U.C. San Diego; "Managing Low Skilled Immigration in the United States" - Thursday, October 29, 2009

Francine D. Blau -Frances Perkins Professor of Industrial and Labor Relations and Labor Economics Cornell University, ILR School and Academic Fellows of the Labor and Employment Relations Association (LERA) Keynote Speaker at the Southern California Applied Microeconomics Conference at CMC - April 2010 sponsored by The Berger Institute for Work, Family and Children; “Gender, Source Country Characteristics and Labor Market Assimilation Among Immigrants” - 12:30 pm lunch talk Friday, April 16, 2010