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Why the State of Economic Literacy Is So Appalling (and What to Do about It)

BOOK FORUM
Tuesday, June 12, 2001
12:00 p.m.

Featuring Russell Roberts, Author, The Invisible Heart: An Economic Romance (MIT Press, 2001).

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In this talk, Russell Roberts makes the case for remaking the way we talk about economics--moving the emphasis away from the sterile and toward the soulful. Using examples taken from the public policy trenches, Roberts talks about how economics can re-engage the importance of human possibility and the individual. Roberts, a hopeless free-market romantic, is the John M. Olin senior fellow at the Weidenbaum Center at Washington University in St. Louis, a commentator on National Public Radio, and author of The Choice: A Fable of Free Trade and Protectionism as well as a new book, The Invisible Heart: An Economic Romance.

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