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WESTERN NEW ENGLAND COLLEGE TO HOST ECONOMICS CONFERENCE

SPRINGFIELD, MA…The Department of Economics at Western New England College will sponsor an economics conference on Friday, October 31 from 9:00 a.m. to noon in Sleith Hall Auditorium. Dr. Richard M. Ebeling, Anna Ebeling, and Sheldon Richman, all scholars from the Foundation for Economic Education (FEE) in Hastings-on-Hudson, NY, will be the main speakers. The conference is free and open to the public.

The presentations will each last one hour. From 9:00 to 10:00 a.m., Dr. Richard Ebeling will speak on the topic of Economic Freedom and Political Freedom. From 10:00 to 11:00, Anna Ebeling will speak on “The Soviet Tragedy, Lessons for American.” And, from 11:00 a.m. to noon, Richman will speak on “The Politics of the Welfare State.”

Dr. Richard Ebeling is president of FEE. Prior to his appointment, he was the Ludwig von Mises Professor of Economics at Hillsdale College in Hillsdale, Michigan, and served as vice president of academic affairs for The Future of Freedom Foundation (1989-2003). Born in New York City in 1950, he received his B.A. in economics from California State University, Sacramento, his M.A. in economics from Rutgers University, and his Ph.D in economics from Middlesex University in London, England. Among his recent writings is a new book, Austrian Economics and the Political Economy of Freedom (Edward Elgar, 2003), and he is also the co-editor of Liberty Security and the War on Terrorism (Future of Freedom Foundation, 2003). He also lectures widely on the problems of economic reform and change in the former Soviet Union and eastern Europe, as well as lecturing on economic policy in the United States, particularly on the topics of monetary policy, government regulation and the welfare state, and the economics of growth, stability and international trade. He has recently delivered a series of lectures in Argentina, Uruguay, Guatemala, and Brazil.

Anna Ebeling was born and raised in Moscow, Russia. She received her degree in Linguistics and History from Moscow State University. Anna spent most of her life working as a researcher for the Soviet Academy of Sciences. In 1989 she became a Public Relations Director at an American Publishing House in Moscow. Two years later, in 1991, Anna married Richard Ebeling and moved to Hillsdale, Michigan. From 1995 to 2003 she served as an adjunct professor in Business and History at Hillsdale College.

Sheldon Richman is editor of Ideas on Liberty, and serves as senior fellow at The Future of Freedom Foundation. He is the author of the award-winning book Separating School & State: How to Liberate America's Families; Your Money or Your Life: Why We Must Abolish the Income Tax; and his newest book Tethered Citizens: Time to Repeal the Welfare State. Calling for the abolition, not the reform, of public schooling. Separating School & State has become a landmark book in both libertarian and educational circles. Mr. Richman's articles on population, federal disaster assistance, international trade, education, the environment, American history, foreign policy, privacy, computers, and the Middle East have appeared in the Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, American Scholar, Chicago Tribune, USA Today, Washington Times, Insight, Cato Policy Report, Journal of Economic Development, The Freeman, The World & I, Reason, Washington Report on Middle East Affairs, Middle East Policy, Liberty magazine, and other publications. He is a contributor to the Fortune Encyclopedia of Economics. A former newspaper reporter and former senior editor at the Cato Institute, Richman is a graduate of Temple University.

Western New England College is a private, independent, coeducational institution founded in 1919. Located on an attractive 215-acre suburban campus in Springfield, Massachusetts, the College serves 4,500 students on its main campus and at seven sites throughout the Commonwealth. Undergraduate and graduate programs are offered through the College’s Schools of Arts and Sciences, Business, Engineering, and Law.

Western New England College - Named among America’s top 100 colleges considered hidden gems --Washington Post survey.

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