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| Event: | The second event in the 2010-11 Expert Speaker Series sponsored by UC Irvine’s School of Social Sciences, “Economics & Public Policy,” will feature UCI economists discussing topics that affect Californians’ daily lives. David Brownstone, Jan Brueckner, Linda Cohen, Fabio Milani and David Neumark will examine the role of psychology in the business cycle, California’s business climate, high-speed rail, nuclear power and airline mergers. |
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| Date: | Thursday, Feb. 24, 2011 |
| Time: | 7 p.m. |
| Location: | Social & Behavioral Sciences Gateway, Room 1517 (bldg. 214, grid F10 on campus map) |
| Supplemental Information: | Free and open to the public. Media planning to attend should contact Laura Rico at 949-824-9055 or lrico@uci.edu. Parking is available for $8 in the Social Sciences Parking Structure, on the corner of Campus Drive and Stanford. For more information, visit http://www.socsci.uci.edu/node/1937. |
| Background: | UCI’s School of Social Sciences studies contemporary issues affecting individuals, economies, societies and institutions at the local and global level. With expertise in analytic, computational and interpretive methods, as well as a tradition of multidisciplinary collaboration, the school seeks to improve the world through understanding human behavior. Its 138 faculty include 10 members of the National Academy of Sciences or the American Academy of Arts & Sciences. UCI’s largest academic unit, the school serves more than 7,000 undergraduate and graduate students in a variety of nationally ranked programs. More than 31,000 UCI social sciences alumni make a difference every day in classrooms, laboratories, boardrooms, law offices, nonprofits and governmental organizations around the world. |
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