Nobel Laureate Thomas Schelling Lectures Aug. 15 In Bozeman

2006-08-15 20:00:00

Museum of the Rockies’ Hager Auditorium

Contact: (406) 585-1776

Thomas Schelling, awarded the 2005 Nobel Prize in Economics, will deliver a free lecture on the history of taboos against the use of nuclear weapons at 8 p.m. Tuesday, Aug. 15 at the Museum of the Rockies’ Hager Auditorium.

The lecture, which is free and open to the public, is co-sponsored by the Montana State University’s Office of the President and the Foundation for Research on Economics and the Environment (FREE).

Schelling is the Distinguished University Professor Emeritus with the Department of Economics and the School of Public Affairs at the University of Maryland. Schelling received his doctorate from Harvard, where he taught for three decades. He spent 1948-1953 in Europe with the Marshall Plan as well as the White House and the Executive Office of the President. He was also on the faculty of Yale University and worked with the RAND Corporation.

Schelling is a Distinguished Fellow of the American Economic Association and received the National Academy of Sciences Award for Behavioral Research Relevant to the Prevention of Nuclear War. He was elected to membership in the National Academy of Sciences, the Institute of Medicine and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

A writer on many aspects of economics, his ninth book, "Strategies of Commitment," was published this year by Harvard University Press.

For more information on Schelling or the lecture, contact FREE at (406) 585-1776.

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