Chancellor’s Colloquium: Debate on Public Funding for Research

The next installment in the Chancellor’s Colloquium Distinguished Speaker Series will be what organizers call a “robust but civilized” debate about whether scientific research should be publicly funded.

Tickets to the event are free and available now; it will also be livestreamed on YouTube.

The debate, organized by The Steamboat Institute, will put this resolution to a pair of economists: “Be it resolved, scientific progress is best achieved through publicly funded research initiatives.”

Arguing in favor of that viewpoint will be Jon Hartley, an economist specializing in finance, labor economics and macroeconomics who is a policy fellow at the Hoover Institution.

Arguing against public funding for research will be John Early, a mathematical economist and adjunct scholar at the Cato Institute.

Tickets are available online: https://leadership.ucdavis.edu/events/chancellors-colloquium-debate-public-funding-research