For those in the Denver area:
Thanks to the work of Alex Padilla, Metro State will host Dr.
Benjamin Powell, editor of Making Poor Nations Rich:
Entrepreneurship and the Process of Development (Stanford University
Press: 2008). Professor Powell will be the second featured speaker in Metro State’s Exploring Economic Freedom Lecture Series, generously sponsored by the Charles G. Koch Charitable Foundation.
Time and Place: March 4th at 1PM in Tivoli Room 320, Auraria Higher Education Complex. Title: “Sweatshop Wages and Third World Workers: Are the Jobs Worth the Sweat?”
Free pizzas will be available.
This is Dr. Powell 2nd visit to campus. He came in 2007 to debate former Governor Lamm on immigration. This debate was recorded is accessible here: http://www.mscd.edu/news/debate/
For additional information contact:
Dr. Alexandre Padilla
Assistant Professor of Economics
Metropolitan State College of Denver
Department of Economics, Campus Box 77
P.O. Box 173362
Denver, CO 80217-3362
Tel: 303-556-3131
Fax: 303-556-3966
Email: padilale@mscd.edu
Professor Powell is the editor of Making Poor Nations Rich:
Entrepreneurship and the Process of Development (Stanford University
Press: 2008) and co-editor with Randall Holcombe of Housing in
America: Building Out of the Crisis (Transaction Publishers, 2009). He
is also the author of more than 30 scholarly articles and policy
studies. His primary fields of research are economic development,
Austrian economics, public choice, and housing economics. He also
writes frequently for the popular press. His popular writing has
appeared in the Investor’s Business Daily, the Financial Times
(London), the Christian Science Monitor, and many regional outlets.
He has appeared on numerous regional and national radio and television
shows including,CNN, MSNBC, Showtime, and National Public Radio. He
also appeared Penn and Teller’s Showtime series “Bullshit.”
For more information on Dr. Powell see: http://mail.beaconhill.org/~bpowell/
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Any chance this lecture will be recorded and posted to the Mises Media page? I’d like to hear it but don’t exactly live within 10 hours of Denver.
Can any one convert this lecture off of real player?
Dr. Padilla is pretty far out there. Mr. Powell is talking economics and his loony competitor immediately jumps on global warming.
He also seemed to ignore everything Mr. Powell says before speaking.
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