Nobelist in economics to give international conference keynote
March 13, 2014
Edward Prescott, a Nobel Prize winner in economics, will present a public lecture Friday (March 14) as the keynote for an international economics conference on the West Lafayette campus.
Prescott will speak on "The Revolution in Aggregate Economics" at 3:30 p.m. in Stewart Center's Fowler Hall. The talk is free and open to the public. It is being presented by the Department of Agricultural Economics and Department of Economics as part of the Global Connections Lecture Series.
Prescott is Regents' Professor and W.P. Carey Chair in Economics at Arizona State University. He received the 2004 Nobel Prize along with Finn Kydland of Norway "for their contributions to dynamic macroeconomics: the time consistency of economic policy and the driving forces behind business cycles," according to Nobel Media.
A second free, public event will occur in conjunction with the conference. The "Amazing China Dance Show" will be presented by the Performing Art Troupe of the Confucius Institute at Purdue at 7:30 p.m. Friday, also in Fowler Hall.
The economics conference, whose working sessions are open to interested scholars and students, is titled "China’s Further Economic Reform and Its Implications for the World Economy." It will begin at 8:30 a.m. Friday and conclude Saturday (March 15). The event is co-organized by the Chinese Economists Society and Purdue's departments of Agricultural Economics and Economics.