A May 31 talk by Lin Ostrom, the winner of the 2009 Nobel Prize for Economics, that was to have been hosted by the Quantitative Collaborative in the University of Virginia's College of Arts & Sciences, has been cancelled. No new date has been set.
In the current issue of The Virginia News Letter, U.Va. economist Bill Shobe offers three activities to increase states' economic health and productivity in what he sees as the likely event of a sharp reduction in federal spending.