From the logic of life to the return of depression

A plug for a series of public lectures by high profile economists coming your way soon

Tim Harford is due to speak at the Royal Institute in late April:

Monday 27 April 2009
7.00pm-8.30pm
Life often seems to defy logic. When a prostitute agrees to unprotected sex, or a teenage criminal embarks on a burglary, or a smoker lights another cigarette, we seem to be a million miles from what we would call rational behaviour. None of this makes sense - or does it? Tim Harford thinks it does. And by weaving stories from an attempted murder in Washington DC to a Soho speed-date, together with insights from an ingenious new breed of economist, he aims to persuade you that we are all, in fact, surprisingly logical.
Tickets cost £8, £6 concessions, £4 Ri members

In June Professor Paul Krugman is delivering a series of lectures at the LSE. Details of Part 1 here:

Date: Monday 8 June 2009
Time: 6.30-8pm
Venue: Old Theatre, Old Building
Speaker: Professor Paul Krugman

This is the first of three consecutive nights lectures by Professor Krugman.

Paul Krugman is centenary professor at LSE and professor of economics and international affairs at Woodrow Wilson School, Princeton University. In 2008 he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences.