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MARIETTA -- An economic professor at the at the University of Chicago will deliver the Milton Friedman Lecture at 7 p.m. Feb. 22 at the Alma McDonough Auditorium at Marietta College.
Casey B. Mulligan's topic is public policy and substance abuse.
Mulligan received a doctorate in economics from the University of Chicago in 1993. He also has served as chief economist of the white House Council of Economic Advisers and as a visiting professor teaching public economics at Harvard University, Clemson University and the Irving B. Harris Graduate School of Public Policy Studies at the University of Chicago.
He is affiliated with the National Bureau of Economic Research, the George J. Stigler Center for the Study of the Economy and the State and the Population Research Center.
Mulligan has received awards and fellowships from the Manhattan Institute, the National Science Foundation, Wolfram Research, the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, the Smith-Richardson Foundation, and the John M. Olin Foundation.
His research covers capital and labor taxation, the gender wage gap, health economics, Social Security, voting and the economics of aging. Mulligan has written widely on discrepancies between economic analysis and conventional wisdom.
The author of five books, his most recent book is "You're Hired! Untold Successes and Failures of a Populist President." He has also written numerous op-eds and blog entries for the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, the New York Post and the Chicago Tribune, among others.