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Economist Joel Mokyr to speak at Bates Oct. 28

LEWISTON, Maine -- Economist Joel Mokyr of Northwestern University will discuss "The Industrial Revolution, Information Technology and Post-Modern Economics" at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 28, in the Benjamin E. Mays Center, Bates College. The public is invited to attend the Muskie Millennial Series lecture free of charge.

Mokyr, the Robert Strotz Professor of Arts and Sciences and Professor of Economics and History at Northwestern, is the author of "The Lover of Riches: Technological Creativity and Economic Progress" (Oxford University Press, 1990), which was selected editor's choice by the New York Times Book Review and co-winner of the Joseph A. Schumpeter Prize. Mokyr's book "Why Ireland Starved: An Analytical and Quantitative Study of Irish Poverty, 1800-1851" was named outstanding publication in economics for 1983 by Choice magazine.

Mokyr's talk is part of the Muskie Millennial Series, sponsored by the college's Edmund S. Muskie Archives. Next in the series will be The Honorable John Lewis on "Civil Rights and Race in America in Time" at 7:30 p.m. Monday, Nov. 29, in the Muskie Archives.