ANN ARBOR – Steven Levitt, the best-selling author of Freakonomics, Superfreakonomics and the recently published Think Like a Freak will speak at the University of Michigan on Halloween during the University of Michigan?s Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy Centennial Reunion Weekend.
Levitt is co-founder of Spin for Good and an economics professor at the University of Chicago. The event is free and open to the public, but requires a ticket for entry.
Levitt received his bachelor’s degree from Harvard University in 1989 and his doctorate from MIT in 1994. In 2006, he was named one of Time magazine’s “100 People Who Shape Our World.”
The Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy had its beginnings in 1914 with the political science department?s launch of a Master of Arts in Municipal Administration?the nation’s first systematic public service training program. Throughout 2014, the school is celebrating and reflecting on the history, evolution and future of one of the world’s premier schools of public policy.
PLACE: Rackham Auditorium, 915 E. Washington Street, Ann Arbor
CONTACT: For an entry ticket, contact Greta Guest, (734) 936-7821 or [email protected].
For more information, Click on FordSchoolUmich.Edu/100-reunion
