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News Release EVENT NEWS RELEASE / August 4, 2008 Acclaimed Economist Robert Higgs to Deliver Brandt Foundation Lecture Sept. 29 at Boise State The Boise State University College of Business and Economics, in conjunction with the John and Orah Brandt Foundation, will present economist Robert Higgs on Monday, Sept. 29, as the 2008-09 Brandt Foundation Lecturer. His talk, titled “The Perilous Path to Unlimited Government,” will begin at 7 p.m. in the Jordan Ballroom of the Student Union Building at Boise State and is free and open to the public. Doors open at 6 p.m. and no tickets are required. Free reserved parking will be provided near the Student Union Building in the new parking structure at Lincoln Avenue and University Drive. Higgs is Senior Fellow in Political Economy for The Independent Institute and editor of The Independent Review. He received his Ph.D. in economics from Johns Hopkins University, and he has taught at the University of Washington, Lafayette College, Seattle University, and the University of Economics in Prague. He has been a visiting scholar at Oxford University and Stanford University, and a fellow for the Hoover Institution and the National Science Foundation. The recipient of numerous awards, Higgs has been honored with the Gary Schlarbaum Award for Lifetime Defense of Liberty, the Thomas Szasz Award for Outstanding Contributions to the Cause of Civil Liberties, the Lysander Spooner Award for Advancing the Literature of Liberty, the Friedrich von Wieser Memorial Prize for Excellence in Economic Education, and the Templeton Honor Rolls Award on Education in a Free Society. He has written many books, including “Crisis and Leviathan,” “Competition and Coercion,” “Against Leviathan,” “Resurgence of the Warfare State” and “Neither Liberty Nor Safety.” His popular articles have appeared in The Wall Street Journal, Los Angeles Times, Chicago Tribune, San Francisco Examiner, San Francisco Chronicle and many other publications. He also has appeared on NPR, NBC, ABC, C-SPAN, Radio Free Europe, Talk Radio Network, Voice of America, the Organization of American Historians’ public radio program, and scores of local radio and television stations. In 2004, the Brandt Foundation pledged a $40,000 annual donation to the Boise State College of Business and Economics that created a named professorship and secured funding for an annual lecture series. Guest lecturers have included Nobel Prize-winning economist James Buchanan, ABC News correspondent John Stossel, Cato Institute chairman William Niskanen and Judge Andrew Napolitano. For further information, visit www.boisestate.edu/brandtfoundation or call (208) 426-1335. -30- Contact: Sherry Squires, University Communications, (208) 426-1563, ssquires@boisestate.edu Boise State University is “The New U Rising” with record student enrollment, new academic buildings, additional degree programs and a growing research agenda. Learn more at www.boisestate.edu.
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