Nobel laureate to speak on causes of human inequality

MEDIA ALERT FOR MONDAY, NOV. 16

The Work, Families and Public Policy Seminar Series

Nobel laureate to discuss human inequality, its origins and solutions

WHAT: Lecture: “Understanding the Sources of and Solutions to Human Inequality”

WHEN: Monday, Nov. 16, 2009, Noon-1:15 pm

WHO: James J. Heckman

2000 Nobel Laureate in Economics

University of Chicago’s Henry Schultz Distinguished Service Professor of Economics

Bio: http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/economics/laureates/2000/public.html

WHERE: Anheuser-Busch Hall, Bryan Cave Moot Courtroom, Room 310

Washington University School of Law

CONTACT: Melody Walker

University News Service

melody_walker@wustl.edu

314-935-6325

Sponsored by the Work, Families and Public Policy Seminar Series; the Douglass North Lecture; the Olin Business School; the George Warren Brown School of Social Work; the Center for Social Development; the Center for Interdisciplinary Studies at the School of Law; the Center for Health Policy; the Department of Economics and the College of Arts and Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis.