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Internationally renowned economist Dan Hamermesh has appeared on everything from MSNBC and Bloomberg to the Daily Show with Jon Stewart. Now he'd like to meet you. Won't you join us for an informal conversation in PUP 360 from 2:45 to 4:00 PM?
PLEASE RSVP: jepennisi@umbc.edu by 1 PM THURS OCT 31st.
Here's a Brief Bio:
Hamermesh is a Fellow of the Econometric Society and the Society of Labor Economists, a Research Associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research and the Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), and Past President of the Society of Labor Economists and of the Midwest Economics Association. In 2013 he received the biennial Mincer Award for Lifetime Contributions to Labor Economics of the Society of Labor Economists; the annual IZA Prize in Labor of the Institute for the Study of Labor; and the biennial John R. Commons Award of the international economics honor society OΔE. His magnum opus, Labor Demand, was published by Princeton University Press in 1993. The same press published his Beauty Pays in 2011. In 2019 Oxford University Press published his Spending Time. In 2014 Worth Publishers published the fifth edition of his Economics Is Everywhere, a series of 400 vignettes designed to illustrate the ubiquity of economics in everyday life and how the simple tools in a microeconomics principles class can be used. His undergraduate teaching, particularly of large classes in introductory economics, has gained him several University-wide teaching awards.
