ADVISORY/Nobel Laureate Gary Becker to speak on globalization.Assignment Desks/Education Writers ADVISORY...for Tues. (March 11, 2003) CHICAGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 10, 2003 Gary Becker, winner of the 1992 Nobel Prize in economics The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel, commonly called the Nobel Prize in Economics, is a prize awarded each year for outstanding intellectual contributions in the field of economics. , will discuss whether globalization has gone too far at a forum sponsored by the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business Recruiters also voice a strongly positive opinion of students. According to BusinessWeek's biannual MBA rankings: "Chicago's grads were hands-down favorites in our survey of companies that hire MBAs. and the Chicago Council on Foreign Relations The Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) is an influential and independent, nonpartisan foreign policy membership organization founded in 1921 and based at 58 East 68th Street (corner Park Avenue) in New York City, with an additional office in Washington, D.C. , Tuesday, March 11. The event will take place from 6:00 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. at the Gleacher Center, 450 N. Cityfront Plaza Drive, 6th Floor, Chicago. Becker is a professor of economics at the University of Chicago. Also speaking at the forum "Exploring the Limits of Globalization" will be Marshall Bouton bouton /bou·ton/ (boo-tahn´) [Fr.] a buttonlike swelling on an axon where it has a synapse with another neuron. synaptic bouton b. terminal. , president of the Chicago Council on Foreign Relations, Edward Snyder, dean of the Graduate School of Business and Robert Wright, author of Nonzero non·ze·ro adj. Not equal to zero. nonzero Not equal to zero. : The Logic of Human Destiny. The audience will include Chicago-area business leaders, members of the Chicago Council on Foreign Relations and alumni of the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business. For complimentary media registration, call Allan Friedman at the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business at (773) 702-9232. |
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