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In his talk, Professor Levitt will show us the way to understand social issues such as crime, corruption and education in the real world through economic and data analysis. He will also explain the Chicago approach and its development in particular. His innovative findings include, among others, successful parenting has more to do with who the parents than how they parent, and crime rates dropped in the 1990s as a result of the legalization of abortion. His book Freakonomics (with Stephen J. Dubner) published earlier this year is a best-seller and is said to reveal "the hidden side of everything”.
Details of the Lecture are below:
Date:September 14, 2005 (Wednesday)
Time:6:00 p.m. to 7:30 p.m.
Venue:Wang Gungwu Theatre, Graduate House, HKU
Professor Steven D. Levitt is currently Alvin H. Baum Professor in Economics and the College at the University of Chicago, a fellow in the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, a faculty research fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research and the American Bar Foundation, as well as editor of the Journal of Political Economy.
For further information of the lecture, visit ：http://www.econ.hku.hk/lecture/public-lecture-6.html.
Members of the Press are cordially invited to attend. For media enquiries, please contact Cherry Cheung Senior Press Officer of HKU at 2859 2606.
HKU School of Economics and Financeto hold a Distinguished Lecture
13 Sep 2005
Professor Steven D. Levitt of University of Chicago will present a distinguished lecture organized by HKU's School of Economics and Finance on the topic of "Building on Stigler, Friedman, and Becker: What Will the Next Generation of 'Chicago Economists' Look Like?"
In his talk, Professor Levitt will show us the way to understand social issues such as crime, corruption and education in the real world through economic and data analysis. He will also explain the Chicago approach and its development in particular. His innovative findings include, among others, successful parenting has more to do with who the parents than how they parent, and crime rates dropped in the 1990s as a result of the legalization of abortion. His book Freakonomics (with Stephen J. Dubner) published earlier this year is a best-seller and is said to reveal "the hidden side of everything”.
Details of the Lecture are below:
Date:September 14, 2005 (Wednesday)
Time:6:00 p.m. to 7:30 p.m.
Venue:Wang Gungwu Theatre, Graduate House, HKU
Professor Steven D. Levitt is currently Alvin H. Baum Professor in Economics and the College at the University of Chicago, a fellow in the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, a faculty research fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research and the American Bar Foundation, as well as editor of the Journal of Political Economy.
For further information of the lecture, visit ：http://www.econ.hku.hk/lecture/public-lecture-6.html.
Members of the Press are cordially invited to attend. For media enquiries, please contact Cherry Cheung Senior Press Officer of HKU at 2859 2606.
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