POSTPONED – Dietrich Vollrath, Author of “Fully Grown: Why a Stagnant Economy is a Sign of Success” to Speak March 19 at UNC Asheville

UPDATE MARCH 12 – This event is POSTPONED.

Dietrich Vollrath, professor and chair of the Department of Economics at the University of Houston, and author of the new book, Fully Grown: Why a Stagnant Economy is a Sign of Success, will give a free public talk at 7 p.m. on Thursday, March 19, in UNC Asheville’s Highsmith Student Union, Alumni Hall.

In this talk, Vollrath will examine why the per-capita U.S. economic growth rate has fallen from 2.25% annually in the 20th century to 1% in the 21st century and discuss whether the reason is market power, trade, government, inequality, demographics, or something else.

Vollrath writes the Growth Economics Blog (growthecon.com) and his research has appeared in The Review of Economic Studies, Journal of Economic Growth, Journal of Development Economics, and the American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics, among others. He is coauthor of the textbook, Introduction to Economic Growth and is a past recipient of the University of Houston’s Ross Lence Teaching Award for Teaching Excellence. He earned both his master’s and doctoral degrees at Brown University.

For more information, please contact Robert C. Tatum, UNC Asheville Cary Caperton Owen Distinguished Professor in Economics, at rtatum@unca.edu.