Sunday, February 17, 2013

Arnold Kling speaks February 20

February 20 - Arnold Kling - MCCCD Honors Lecture - Competition in Education

Competition in Education: Is it a Solution or it is a Problem?

Arnold Kling received his Ph.D. in economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1980. He was an economist on the staff of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System from 1980-1986. He was a senior economist at Freddie Mac from 1986-1994. In 1994, he started Homefair.com, one of the first commercial sites on the World Wide Web. (Homefair was sold in 1999 to Homestore.com.) Kling is an adjunct scholar with the Cato Institute and a member of the Financial Markets Working Group at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University. He teaches statistics and economics at the Berman Hebrew Academy in Rockville, Maryland.

Kling is the author of five books:

Unchecked and Unbalanced: How the Discrepancy between Knowledge and Power Caused the Financial Crisis and Threatens Democracy (Rowman and Littlefield, 2010).

From Poverty to Prosperity: Intangible Assets, Hidden Liabilities and the Lasting Triumph over Scarcity [FP2P] (with Nick Schulz, Encounter Books, 2009);

Crisis of Abundance: Rethinking How We Pay for Health Care (Cato, 2006);

Learning Economics (Xlibris, 2004);

Under the Radar: Starting Your Internet Business without Venture Capital (Perseus, 2001);

He was a contributing editor to TCSdaily.com. His web site at arnoldkling.com has been cited by The New York Times and in the Journal of Economic Perspectives as being entertaining and educational on the subjects of economics and technology.

Arnold Kling blogs on EconLog along with Bryan Caplan and David Henderson.

Location: Phoenix College, Bulpitt Auditorium 1202 W Thomas Rd Phoenix, AZ See map: Google Maps http://www.maricopa.edu/honors/forum/arnold-kling

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