{"id":90,"date":"2009-03-05T17:56:19","date_gmt":"2009-03-05T17:56:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ivanhoe142.org\/wordpress\/?p=90"},"modified":"2019-01-03T12:02:22","modified_gmt":"2019-01-03T19:02:22","slug":"ivanhoe-anniversary-dinner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ivanhoe142.ca\/wordpress\/ivanhoe-anniversary-dinner\/","title":{"rendered":"Ivanhoe Anniversary Dinner"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This year&#8217;s Ivanhoe Anniversary Dinner is on <strong>Saturday March 28, 2009<\/strong>, <strong>7:30 P.M.<\/strong> at Shogun Japanese Restaurant on 121 Street and Jasper Avenue.\u00a0 Tickets are $30. Seating is limited to 30 people and is almost sold out, so don&#8217;t delay, act now and email our Junior Warden at <strong>jw@ivanhoe142.org<\/strong> to reserve your tickets.<\/p>\n<p>The keynote speaker for the evening is <strong>Dr. Dick Beason<\/strong> from the University of Alberta Economics Department who will be speaking about the <strong>Japanese economy in the 80&#8217;s and 90&#8217;s<\/strong> and the government stimulus and bailouts given out then compared to the same policies of the global economic crisis today.<\/p>\n<p>Dick Beason received his B.A. in economics (Honors) from the University of California at Berkeley, and his Ph.D. in economics from the University of Michigan with major fields in labor economics and macroeconomics, and minor fields in econometrics and political economy.\u00a0 He was briefly Assistant Professor of Economics at the University of Windsor while finishing his doctoral dissertation at Michigan, and joined the University of Alberta in 1990.\u00a0 He served as Visiting Scholar to the Ministry of Finance (Japan) in both 1989 and 1990, and then at the Bank of Japan during 1992-93. While on leave from the UofA he was Senior Economist with HSBC James Capel in Tokyo during 1993-95.\u00a0 On another leave, he was Chief Strategist with UBS-Warburg in Tokyo.\u00a0 His publications cover topics in labor economics, macroeconomics, financial economics and public policy.\u00a0 His paper &#8216;Growth, Targeting and Econmies of Scale in Japan, 1955-1990&#8217; in the Review of Economics and Statistics with David Weinstein is widely credited with having put the Clinton Administration off industrial policy targeting.<\/p>\n<p>Dick has been married to Mariko for 26 years and has two children.\u00a0 He enjoys hunting, fishing, cross country skiing, snowmobiling and motorcycling, and the odd game of squash.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This year&#8217;s Ivanhoe Anniversary Dinner is on Saturday March 28, 2009, 7:30 P.M. at Shogun Japanese Restaurant on 121 Street and Jasper Avenue.\u00a0 Tickets are $30. 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