University of Maryland economics professor Thomas Schelling, whose research interests include nuclear weapons policy and arms control, climate change, drugs policy and smoking, will speak at Cornell College as the Phi Beta Kappa visiting scholar.
Admission is free to both.
Schelling is Distinguished University Professor in the department of economics and the School of Public Affairs at the University of Maryland in College Park. From 1948 to 1953 he worked in Europe and Washington with the Marshall Plan and other programs. He spent five years at Yale University, then from 1958 to 1990 taught in the department of economics and the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard, where he is professor of economics emeritus. One of his students at Harvard was Les Garner, current president of Cornell.