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Date

Thursday, May 8, 2014 8:30AM

Name

Santa Barbara Economic Forecast Project 2014

Description

Tickets: $200.00
Prices include a $3.00 per ticket Facility Fee

UCSB Arts & Lectures Presents
University of California Santa Barbara Economic Forecast Project

Co-presented with the UCSB Economic Forecast Project

Includes admission to the entire half-day Summit, a copy of the 2014 Santa Barbara County Economic Outlook report plus a Continental Breakfast from 7:30-8:30 AM on the 1200 block of State Street.

Panel Discussion: The Future of Work. Is America becoming a nation of billionaires and the masses who serve them? Our experts will tackle this topic and more. Panel speakers include Megan McArdle, business blogger for Bloomberg View and author of the new book The Up Side of Down: Why Failing Well Is the Key to Success; Andrew McAfee, principal research scientist at the Center for Digital Business in the MIT Sloan School of Management and co-author of The Second Machine Age; Lee Ohanian, professor of economics and director of the Ettinger Family Program in Macroeconomic Research at UCLA; and moderator Russell Roberts, the John and Jean De Nault Research Fellow at the Hoover Institution and author of The Price of Everything. The Santa Barbara County economic forecast will be delivered by Peter Rupert, director of the UCSB Economic Forecast Project and chair of the Department of Economics at UCSB.

Part of the 33rd annual Santa Barbara County Economic Summit

Visit the UCSB Economic Forecast Project website

*Ticket prices are subject to change without notice

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