R. Richard Geddes, senior staff economist of U.S. president George W. Bush?s Council of Economic Advisors (CEA) will present ?The Application of Property Rights to Current Policy Issues? on Friday, April 8, at 3:30 p.m. in Stephens Hall, Room 312. The seminar will be hosted by the Department of Economics of the College of Business and Economics at Towson University.
?I am excited to have him talk to our students about his experience and knowledge of the policy making process as a member of the CEA.? Jim Dorn, professor in the Department of Economics, says. ?No one will want to miss this chance to hear and debate with Dr. R. Richard Geddes who will discuss social security reform, environmental economics, and other policy issues.?
Geddes? research interests include public utility regulation, postal economics, the effects of regulation on corporate governance, and economics of women?s property rights. His articles have appeared in the American Economic Review, Journal of Law, Economics and Organization, Journal of Legal Studies, Resource and Energy Economics, Clinical Therapeutics, Journal of Regulatory Economics, Cato Journal, Review of Industrial Organization, and Journal of Law and Economics.
Geddes is an associate professor of policy analysis and management at Cornell University. He received B.A. in economics and finance from TU in 1984 and his M.A. and Ph.D. in economics from the University of Chicago. In addition to having taught economics at Fordham University in New York, Geddes has been a visiting faculty fellow in the Program in Civil Liability at Yale Law School, a national fellow at the Hoover Institution, and was a Henry Salvatori Fellow at the Heritage Foundation. Geddes has served as a consultant to the United States Postal Service in the last postal rate case, which he testified before the Postal Rate Commission. In addition, he was a consultant to the Australian Price Surveillance Authority about the application of the Price Surveillance Act to BHP Steel and a consultant to the Progress and Freedom Foundation in Washington D.C., regarding the economic impact of the Public Utility Holding Company Act of 1935. He was the director of the Visiting Fellows Program at the Institute for Humane Studies at George Mason University and served on the board of directors for the McGannon Communications Center at Fordham University.
Admission is free and open to the public. For more information, please contact Jim Dorn, professor in the Department of Economics, at (410) 704-2956 or e-mail {jdorn@towson.edu}.
