Center of Excellence on Human Capital Recent News
November 19-21, 2009
New Directions in the Economic Analysis of Education Conference in Chicago
Dr. Ehrlich is coordinating the "New Directions in the Economic Analysis of Education" conference this November, which will be held at the University of Chicago. The dates for this event are Friday, November 20, 2009, and Saturday, November 21, 2009. Dr. Ehrlich, in coordination with Noble Laureate Gary Becker, head of the Milton Friedman Institute for Research in Economics at the University of Chicago, will be organizing and cosponsoring the event.
September 14, 2009
Ehrlich serves as Keynote Speaker at Rockerfeller Institute
Sustaining and advancing New York's "human capital" is critical to the state's efforts to recover from the current recession and compete in the global economy, according to experts at a New York State Network for Economic Research conference held at the Rockefeller Institute on September 14. Keynote speaker Isaac Ehrlich, chair of the Department of Economics at the University at Buffalo and editor of the University of Chicago Press' Journal of Human Capital, said human innovation and ingenuity are responsible for the technological advances that have fueled the U.S. economy over the last century. He urged further investment in the state's human capital not only to help speed economic recovery but also to help the nation maintain its position as an economic leader. Other speakers discussed such topics as education and employment trends, and their relationship to economic activity.
Audio, video, papers and presentations pertaining to the event are now available at the Institute's Web site <http://www.rockinst.org/default.aspx>