04/15/2008: "Global Warming & Elections: 2008"

"Global Warming and Elections 2008: What are the Candidates Telling Us and What Do We Need to Know?" will be the topic of a special public meeting sponsored by the League of Women Voters. Economist and international educator, Dr. Edwin Dolan, a resident of Lopez Island, will be the featured speaker.

The meeting will be held at the Friday Harbor Middle School Commons on Saturday, April 26, from 1 to 3 pm. The event is free and the public is invited to attend and to join in the discussion following the talk.

Dr. Dolan taught classes on The Economics of Global Warming at Skagit Valley College on Lopez and San Juan Islands in 2007 and 2008. His long-standing concern for the environment led to his first book, Tanstaafl*: The Economic Strategy for Environmental Crisis, while he was a professor at Dartmouth College in 1971.
*There ain't no such thing as a free lunch.

Dr. Dolan has taught economics at several universities in the United States and held positions in several US governmental agencies until 1990. He then centered his work in Russia and the many East European countries which were undergoing economic transition after emerging from Communist rule.

He helped establish the American University in Moscow, founded a not-for-profit institution with an MBA program in Moscow, and taught in universities throughout eastern Europe.

He returns to that region for several months each year to teach a variety of courses, including money and banking, monetary policy, managerial economics, and global macroeconomics..