Dear Colleagues, A sales pitch for the upcoming departmental seminar speaker this week. Glen Weyl is speaking this Wed. from 3-4:30 p.m. Glen is a real hot-shot in the field .. valedictorian at Princeton who finished his PhD just one year later see link... http://www.princeton.edu/main/news/archive/S18/00/36A09/?section=featured ...then on to Harvard Society of Fellows. He currently has a position at Chicago, now on leave in Cambridge at Microsoft Research. He's speaking on a potentially big idea, "Quadratic Voting," a scheme that is an optimal solution to problems that don't have market-based solutions (public goods and so forth). http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2003531 Please consider signing up for a remaining office visit slot (he may be able to solve one of your nagging research problems for you, who knows?), and certainly come to see him in action in the seminar. Best, --Chris ---------------------------------------------------- Christopher Snyder Joel Z. and Susan Hyatt Professor of Economics Department of Economics 301 Rockefeller Hall Dartmouth College Hanover, NH 03755 tel: 603-646-0642 fax: 603-646-2122 email: [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]> office: 312A Silsby Hall web page: http://www.dartmouth.edu/~csnyder/ ------------------------------------------------- ######################################################################## To unsubscribe from the ECONOMICS-SEMINARS list, click the following link: https://listserv.dartmouth.edu/scripts/wa.exe?SUBED1=ECONOMICS-SEMINARS