Canadian Economics Association
Association canadienne d'économique
Dear Canadian Economics Department chair,
Please share the following announcement with your department for a virtual Purvis Lecture Luncheon next Friday presented by Professor Anne Case (Princeton University) and hosted by CEA vice-president Professor Nicole Fortin (Vancouver School of Economics).
Doug Purvis Memorial Lecture
Friday May 22nd, 2020 at 12 noon EST - video-conference
The CEA is pleased to announce a virtual presentation of the Doug Purvis Memorial Lecture that was planned for the 2020 CEA Conference. Professor Anne Case (Princeton University) will present the lecture on Friday May 22nd, 2020 at 12 noon EST.
The event will begin with the presentation of the 2020 recipient of the Doug Purvis Memorial Prize followed by an approximately 40 minute lecture by Professor Anne Case.
Professor Anne Case is the Alexander Stewart 1886 Professor of Economics and Public Affairs, Emeritus at Princeton University. Her research on health over the life course has uncovered increases in midlife morbidity and mortality that she attributes to drugs, alcohol, and suicide, also known as “Deaths of Despair.”
The event is free for all current CEA members. To ensure your membership is current, login to your account in the top right hand corner of www.economics.ca and choose membership. To become a CEA member: www.economics.ca/join. Event page.
Doug Purvis Memorial Prize
The Doug Purvis Memorial Prize is awarded annually to the authors of a highly significant, written contribution to Canadian economic policy. The award was established in 1994 in honour and memory of noted Canadian economist Doug Purvis. The competition is open to all forms of print media in which material relevant to Canadian economic policy appears, including books, single articles in scholarly journals, government studies including monographs done for royal commissions, think tank reports and a series of articles in newspapers or magazines.
The Canadian Economics Association is grateful to the family of Doug Purvis for funding the prize and for their continuing support.
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