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Liberty
Institute cordially
invites you to the Julian
L. Simon Memorial Lecture To
celebrate the human potential and achievement so aptly demonstrated by Prof.
Julian L. Simon in his masterpiece The Ultimate
Resource 2, and all his other works.
“The
ultimate resource is people— especially
skilled, spirited, and hopeful young people— who will
exert their wills and imaginations for their own benefit, and so,
inevitably, for the benefit of us all” Julian
L. Simon The
2004 Julian L. Simon Memorial Lecture will be delivered by: Ken
Schoolland Associate
Professor of economics and political science, at Hawaii Pacific University
in Honolulu Courage,
Fear, and Immigration: The
Significance of Welcoming Newcomers in a Free Economy & Book Release: The Adventures of Jonathan Gullible: A
free market odyssey, by Ken
Schoolland January 10, 2005,
9.30 am Gulmohar Hall India Habitat Centre, Lodhi Road, New Delhi
M. S.
Vasudevan, Liberty Institute, New Delhi. Tel: (91)-(11) 25079214 / 15 A. Jothi,
India Development Foundation, Gurgaon. Tel: (91)-(124)-5014535 Ken
Schoolland is
currently an Associate Professor of Economics and Political Science at
Hawaii Pacific University in Honolulu.
He received the Faculty Assembly Golden Apple Award for Distinguished
Teaching, 2003. Schoolland served as an international economist in the U.S.
International Trade Commission, the U.S. Department of Commerce, and on
assignment to the Office of the Special Representative for Trade
Negotiations. He taught at Sheldon Jackson College in Alaska and on a
university exchange program at Hakodate University in Japan. He later became
Director of the Master of Science in Japanese Business Studies Program at
Chaminade University. Schoolland
is a member of the Board of Directors of the International Society for
Individual Liberty, a Sam Walton Fellow for Students in Free Enterprise and
has authored The Adventures of
Jonathan Gullible: A Free Market Odyssey,
now published in 30 languages.
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Late
Prof. Julian L. Simon
was an economist and demographer based at the University of Maryland at
College Park, just outside Washington DC. He had a special interest in
natural resource and environmental issues. He eloquently showed that,
contrary to popular perception, all natural resources have become more
abundant with economic development, and the only resource that has become
dearer is human labour, although our numbers have grown at an unprecedented
rate over the past few centuries. Prof.
Simon had published over two dozen books, mostly on population, environment
and developmental issues. His most famous book is The Ultimate
Resource (1980), which was completely revised and updated in 1997. Julian
L. Simon passed away in 1998. Prof. Simon was instrumental in helping us
establish Liberty Institute as an independent think tank. He last came to
India in 1997 to participate in the Institute’s Freedom Workshop. We
instituted the memorial lecture to keep alive this spirit of Simon in
questioning conventional wisdom and bringing facts to light on a variety of
environmental and development issues. The
inaugural lecture was delivered by eminent economist Deepak
Lal, James S. Coleman Professor of International Development Studies,
University of California, Los Angeles, on “The
New Cultural Imperialism: The greens and economic development” in
2000. The next speaker in 2002, was Leon Louw, Executive Director of
the Free Market Foundation, and the Good Law Project in Johannesburg, South
Africa. His topic was “The Miracle of Poverty”. Prof. C. S.
Prakash of Tuskegee University, USA, delivered the third lecture in this
series in 2003, when he spoke on “Agricultural Productivity: Role of
Modern Technologies”. ********** Jan 10,
2005 Programme: 9.30 am: Registration 9.45 am: Welcome and Introduction Session I: Julian L. Simon
Memorial Lecture Chair: Vijay Kelkar 10.00 am: Lecture by Ken Schoolland 10.40 am: Q & A 11.15 – 11.30 am: Tea break Session II: Panel Discussion –
Population: Boon or Bane 11.30 – 01.00 pm: Panelists – · Abusaleh Shariff, National Council for Applied Economics Research · Binod Khadria, Zakir Husain Centre for Educational Studies, JNU · Shubhashis Gangopadhyay, India Development Foundation · Bibek Debroy, Rajiv Gandhi Institute for Contemporary Studies Some others
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