For release: March 1, 2013
News and Media
Relations contact: Jimmy Hart, 615-898-5131 or Jimmy.Hart@mtsu.edu
Second MTSU contact: Mike
Hammock, assistant professor in the Department of Economics and Finance, at 615-494-8678
or Mike.Hammock@mtsu.edu
MURFREESBORO — MTSU
is hosting a series of three guest lectures in the coming weeks focusing on
economics, starting Tuesday night.
Dennis Coates of the University of Maryland-Baltimore County
will speak on sports economics and public financing of sports stadiums at 7
p.m. Tuesday, March 5, in the State Farm Room of the Business and Aerospace
Building. Coates will be hosted by the Department of Economics and
Finance and The Economics Club.
All three lectures will be held in the State Farm Room and are
open to the public. Each lecture will be an hour long, with a 15-minute
question-and-answer session afterward.
• Matthew Yglesias, an economics blogger and journalist
for Slate.com, will speak at 7 p.m. Wednesday, March 20. Yglesias will discuss housing
regulation, rent control, zoning laws, and his latest book, “The Rent is Too
Damn High.” Yglesias will be co-hosted by the MTSU School of Journalism, the
Distinguished Lecture Fund and The Economics Club.
• Don Boudreaux of George Mason University (and
cafehayek.com) will speak at 7 p.m. Monday, April 22, about the life and
contributions of Nobel Prize winner and MTSU alumnus James M. Buchanan, who
passed away Jan. 9. Boudreaux will be hosted by the Department of
Economics, The Economics Club and The Honors College, which awards the James
Buchanan Fellowship to 20 undergraduate applicants each year in his honor.
For more information, call Mike Hammock, assistant professor
in the Department of Economics and Finance, at 615-494-8678.
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