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Schedule

Sunday, June 24
  4:00-6:00 p.m.
  6:00-9:00 p.m.

Monday, June 25
  7:30-8:30 a.m.
  8:30-10:00 a.m.
  10:00-10:30 a.m.
  10:30-12:00 p.m.
 
  12:00-1:00 p.m.

  1:00-2:30 p.m.
  2:30-3:00 p.m.
  3:00-4:30 p.m.
 
 
4:30-6:00 p.m.
  6:00-9:00 p.m.

Tuesday, June 26
  7:30-8:30 a.m.
  8:30-10:00 a.m.
  10:00-10:30 a.m.
 
  10:30-12:00 p.m.

  12:00-6:00 p.m.
  6:00-9:00 p.m.

Wednesday,
 June 27

  7:30-8:30 a.m.
  8:30-10:00 a.m.
  10:00-10:30 a.m.
  10:30-12:00 p.m.
  12:00-1:00 p.m.
  1:00-2:30 p.m.
 
  2:30-3:00 p.m.

  3:00-4:30 p.m.
 
  4:30-6:00 p.m.

  6:00-7:00 p.m.
  7:00-9:00 p.m.

Thursday, June 28
  7:30 a.m.    

Arrival and registration
Dinner and Program Overview


Breakfast
Session One:  The Tricks of the Trade (Russ Roberts)
Break
Session Two:  How Numbers in Politics Get Used and Abused
     (Steve Smith)

Lunch 
Session Three:  The Corporate Numbers Game (Richard Mahoney)
Break
Session Four:  The Rationality and Irrationality of Risk
     (Don Coursey)

Free Time 
Cocktails, Dinner


Breakfast
Session Five:  Inaction In the Face of Uncertainty
Policy Design in a
     Risky World
(Don Coursey)
Break
Session Six:  How's the Economy Doing? (Bruce Yandle)
Box lunches — Free time 
Cocktails, Dinner



Breakfast
Session Seven:  The Big Picture on Tiny Numbers (Paul Rothstein)
Break
Session Eight:  When Good Numbers Go Bad (Don Cox)
Lunch 
Session Nine:  How Numbers on Economic Development Are Used and
     Abused (Don Coursey)

Break
Session Ten:  Trade Deficits, Weight Loss, and Traffic at the Cape: 
     Looking at Data When Nothing Else is Held Constant (Russ Roberts)

Free Time 
Cocktails
Dinner discussion and interactive session


Breakfast and Departure








 

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Campus Box 1027 
Eliot Hall, Room 300
Washington University 
St. Louis, MO 63130-4899 
Phone: (314) 935-5630 
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