Thursday Night at MIT

This Thursday, I have the opportunity to participate in an event at MIT's Department of Urban Planning along with my friends Nate Baum-Snow and David Albouy.  All details are here.  Bring your copies of Climatopolis and I will sign them!  (As an aside, I teach MBAs at the Anderson School at UCLA and the other day I gave a signed copy of my book to one of my students who had done a good job in class the week before.  He told me that he was likely to sell it on Ebay and expected to earn 50 cents. I respected his honesty).

What will the Dream Team of Albouy, Baum-Snow and Kahn be speaking about?

Economics and the Sustainable City
Thursday, November 3, 2011, 5:00-7:00pm
MIT 3-133

Three urban economists discuss how economic principles will help cities to create a smaller environmental footprint.

• David Albouy, Assistant Professor of Economics, University of Michigan; Faculty Research Fellow, National Bureau of Economic Research; and Research Associate at the Office of Tax Policy Research
• Nathaniel Baum-Snow, Assistant Professor of Economics, Brown University
• Matthew E. Kahn, Professor, Institute of the Environment, Department of Public Policy, UCLA

Moderator: Frank Levy, Daniel Rose Professor of Economics, Department of Urban Studies and Planning, MIT

Responders:

• Eran Ben-Joseph, , Professor of Landscape Architecture and Urban Design; Head of the Joint Program in City Design and Development, Department of Urban Studies and Planning, MIT
• Judith Layzer, Associate Professor of Environmental Policy and Head of Environmental Policy and Planning Group, Department of Urban Studies and Planning, MIT

Now, I must note for the record that Nate has been promoted to tenured Associate Professor at Brown and as you know .--- this listing above omits 3 of my UCLA affiliations.  In addition to the Institute of the Environment and the Department of Public Policy, I am also a Professor in the Economics Department, the Anderson School of Business and the Law School.  So that's 5 and I want 5 more. Which ones?  I respect the folks in the Anthropology Dept, Sociology, Political Science,  Urban Planning and I like the Physicists.

So, that would equal 10 appointments and I'm already 1/2 way towards this goal.

I have very fond memories of MIT.  That great school treated my wife very well during her 14 years on their faculty.