Earlier this month we alerted you to Alex Marshall’s upcoming appearance at the University of Minnesota’s Humphrey School of Public Affairs. We want to remind all of you “policy wonks, economists and planners of all types” that the event is quickly approaching.
If you haven’t already, you can register for the event scheduled for 11:30 a.m. – 1 p.m. on Thursday, October 24. The lecture will be held at the Freeman Commons at the Humphrey on the U’s West Bank.
Marshall recently released The Surprising Design of Market Economies. From an interview and in the Atlantic Cities:
The Surprising Design of Market Economies debunks the notion that free markets are “natural.” Indeed, Marshall explains, market economies are about as natural as the “completely human-made and -maintained” Prospect Park near his Brooklyn apartment.
“City leaders didn’t just leave nature as is,” he writes. “They constructed it.” The same is true for market economies, Marshall explained…
For more of Marshall’s writings and appearances, visit his website.