UNC Asheville Economics Webinar with Dietrich Vollrath, author of “Fully Grown: Why a Stagnant Economy is a Sign of Success”

UNC Asheville will continue its fall 2020 series of a free webinars on economics with a talk at 7 p.m. on Thursday, Sept. 17, by Dietrich Vollrath, author of Fully Grown: Why a Stagnant Economy is a Sign of Success. This online event is free and open to everyone via Zoom, with registration available at this link.

This series is presented by UNC Asheville’s Department of Economics, the Cary Caperton Owen Professorship in Economics, and the student Economics Club.

Dietrich Vollrath is professor and chair of the Economics Department at the University of Houston. His research focuses on economic growth, and has appeared in the Review of Economic Studies, Journal of Economic Growth, Journal of Development Economics, and the American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics, among others.

He is a past recipient of the Ross Lence Teaching Award, and is the co-author of a popular textbook on economic growth. He earned his doctoral and master’s degrees at Brown University and his bachelor’s degree at the University of Michigan. For more details on his current research, please visit his personal website.

More Upcoming Economics Webinars

Oct. 8 – Tomáš Sedláček, chief macroeconomic strategist at Czech commercial bank CSOB and author of Economics of Good and Evil: the Quest for Economic Meaning from Gilgamesh to Wall Street. Noon via Zoom.

Oct. 15 – William Darity, the Samuel DuBois Cook Distinguished Professor of Public Policy at Duke University and co-author with Kirsten Mullen of From Here to Equality: Reparations for Black Americans in the Twenty-First Century. 7 p.m. via Zoom.

For more information, please contact UNC Asheville’s Department of Economics at 828.251.6550.