SFU Royal Society of Canada Seminar Series: "Against putting ideology ahead of realism in economics"

Thursday, March 29, 2012
11:30 - 12:30
Rm10900

Dr. Lawrence Boland
Department of Economics, Simon Fraser University

Abstract

In 1966 Lawrence Boland joined the Department of Economics to teach methodology and mathematical economics. He had taught the previous year at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. He received a B.Sc. in economics from Bradley University in 1962. From the University of Illinois he received a M.Sc. in 1963 and a Ph.D. in 1966. In 1968 he was a visitor at the Department of Economics of Boston University. He has taught introductory sociology at Capilano College and Vancouver Community College.