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"Doctors of Strange Love: Deliberate Disutility in Markets for Beer, Food, and Medical Marijuana"

RU’s Department of Economics cordially invites you to attend our next seminar featuring the behavioral scientist, author, and critic, Robin Goldstein (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robin_Goldstein).

Day:  Thurs., April 18, 2013
Time: 4:30 to 6:00 PM
Place: AUD 720 (Roosevelt University, 430 S. Michigan Ave)

Robin Goldstein is the author of several books on food, wine, and consumer behavior - including The Wine Trials and The Beer Trials - and of a number of other books on taste and consumer behavior.  He is currently visiting scholar at the University of California-San Diego Rady School of Management, where he is conducting research on sensory perception and consumer behavior. He has also been a visiting scholar at the University of California-Berkeley Department of Economics.  Robin has a J.D. from the Yale Law School and a certificate in cooking from the French Culinary Institute.

Admission is free and open to the public.  Participants requiring assistance should contact Professor Stephen T. Ziliak (sziliak@roosevelt.edu; 312.341.3763).