Richard B. Freeman holds the Herbert Ascherman Chair in Economics at Harvard University. He is currently serving as faculty director of the Labor and Worklife Program at the Harvard Law School. He directs the National Bureau of Economic Research / Sloan Science Engineering Workforce Projects, and is Senior Research Fellow in Labour Markets at the London School of Economics' Centre for Economic Performance.
The title of the talk is "Can the U.S. Restore Shared Prosperity After the Financial Meltdown?"
The talk is free and open to the public, and is co-sponsored by the Johnson Lecture Series, the Shepherd Program and W&L's Economics Department.