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2022 Virginia Tech PPE Distinquished Public Lecture with Nobel Prize Winner Esther Duflo (Online)
Venue: Virginia Tech, Blacksburg
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Date: Wednesday, February 16, 2022
Time: 5:00 - 6:30 PM
Event Types: Speaking Engagements
Cost: Free

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The Virginia Tech Kellogg Center for Philosophy, Politics, and Economics presents the 2022 Virginia Tech PPE Distinquished Public Lecture with Nobel Prize Winner Esther Duflo presenting "Good Economics for Hard Times" online on Wednesday, February 16, 2022.

Co-winner of the 2019 Nobel Prize in Economics, Professor Esther Duflo, will deliver the 2022 PPE Distinguished Public Lecture at Virginia Tech. She is the youngest person and second woman to win the Nobel Prize in Economics. Professor Duflo will speak about her new (co-authored) book, "Good Economics for Hard Times", that addresses some of the thorniest social and political problems of our time.

Esther Duflo is the Abdul Latif Jameel Professor of Poverty Alleviation and Development Economics in the Department of Economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a co-founder and co-director of the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL). She is a Research Associate with the National Bureau of Economic Research, serves on the board of the Bureau for Research and Economic Analysis of Development, and is Director of the development economics program of the Center for Economic and Policy Research.

Professor Duflo’s research focuses on microeconomic issues in developing countries, including education, access to finance, health, and policy evaluation – taking economics out of the lab to discover the causes of poverty and means to eradicate it. Her book (co-authored with Abhijit Banerjee), Poor Economics: A Radical Rethinking of the Way to Fight Global Poverty, was Financial Times and Goldman Sachs Business Book of the Year.

Professor Duflo is the Editor of the American Economic Review and a member of the National Academy of Sciences. She was honored as MacArthur Fellow in 2009, received the John Bates Clark Medal as the best economist under 40 in 2010, and won jointly the Nobel Prize in Economics for her work on global poverty alleviation in 2019.

Admission is free and all are welcome though registration is required.

To register, visit: https://virginiatech.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_H67ogfIcSEqerYfkVOKYlQ.

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For more information about this event, visit: https://ppe.liberalarts.vt.edu/2021/11/15/ppe-distinguished-public-lecture-esther-duflo/ or https://vtx.vt.edu/articles/2022/01/-good-economics-for-hard-times---kellogg-center-to-host-nobel-pr.html.