**PLEASE NOTE THIS IS A VIRTUAL PROGRAM THAT WILL TAKE PLACE VIA ZOOM. Registrants will receive a link to access the Zoom Webinar via email.**  

Nobel Laureate MIT Professor Peter Diamond will discuss his life journey, search theory, Social Security and contemporary macroeconomic issues. Diamond received his bachelor’s degree in mathematics from Yale and Ph.D. in economics from MIT. He was an assistant professor of economics at U.C. Berkeley before returning to MIT as an associate professor. He retired from MIT in 2011, having taught there for more than 40 years. Aside from the development of economic search models that incorporate “real-world frictions," he has taught and worked on public economics throughout his career, including analyses of taxes, government spending, and the public debt. Professor Diamond is also well known for his work and analyses of social security systems in the U.S. and around the world. Through his expertise, he served as an advisor to federal government’s Advisory Council on Social Security in the 1990s. He has more than 150 academic papers and has written 12 books and many reports and briefs.

Register directly on Zoom HERE.  Presented in collaboration with the Cary Memorial Library in Lexington.

NOTE: This program will be recorded. All registrants will receive the recording via email within 24 hours of the program.