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Abbey Speaker Series: How to Evaluate Economies
On February 21st, from 3:00 PM to 4:30 PM, the Abbey Speaker Series will host “How to Evaluate Economies” in the Frank Porter Graham Student Union Auditorium. UNC public policy professor Douglas MacKay will moderate a discussion featuring Kaushik Basu (Cornell University), Carol Graham (Brookings Institution), and Robert Doar (American Enterprise Institute).
The event is co-sponsored with the Philosophy, Politics, and Economics (PPE) Program.
Join us for pizza in the lobby afterward!
Students who attend in-person can get CLE credit. No tickets are necessary. Seating is first-come-first serve, but we will reserve tickets for guests coming from outside Chapel Hill. Please email publicdiscourse@unc.edu for reserved seats.

Kaushik Basu is a professor of economics and the Carl Marks Professor of International Studies at Cornell University. He served as Senior Vice President and Chief Economist of the World Bank from 2012 to 2016. Prior to that, he was Chief Economic Adviser to the Indian Government from 2009 to 2012. Basu has published widely in development economics, industrial organization, game theory, and welfare economics. His most recent book is The Republic of Beliefs: A New Approach to Law and Economics (Princeton University Press, 2018).




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