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Due to a family emergency, Dr. Danny Le Roy is unable to speak at Thursday's PUBlic Professor event. Dr. Sidney Shapiro, an Assistant Professor of Business Analytics at the Dhillon School of Business, will step in with a talk titled听AI and Us: Building a Human Future in a Machine World.
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Cash bar | Light appetizers
This is a Free event, everyone is welcome.
The 2025/26 PUBlic Progfessor series is presented by the 免费福利资源在线看片 of Lethbridge Senate.
Date: Thursday, Oct. 30, 2025
Time: 7 - 9 p.m.
Location: Lethbridge Treade and Convention Centre听 |听 101 Exhibition Way South, Lethbridge
Speaker: Dr. Danny Le Roy
Topic: Cockwombles, Cornucopias and the Curious Task of Economics
THIS EVENT IS SOLD OUT. Please follow the registration link if you would like to be added to the waiting list.
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Cockwambles, Cornucopias and the Curious Task of Economics鈥�听
Financial听pressures.听Environmental听concerns.听Technological听change.听Shifting consumer preferences. Infrastructure limitations. Government interventionism. These factors, and more, contribute听to听the听听
complexity and challenges owned by farmers,听ranchers听and others in the agri-food industry in Canada. Agri-entrepreneurs and producers听operate听at an intersection of scarcity, uncertainty, natural resource听stewardship听and business efficiency 鈥� a balance that seems increasingly difficult to听maintain, or even to achieve. Economic science enables us to better grasp the source, the听nature听and the consequences of these issues. It helps guide decision making and informs what the implications of those choices are, both intended and unintended.鈥疎conomics is not about money, being able to predict the future, or what the level of something should be.鈥疘t is about people; it is who we are and听the听omnipresent trade-offs we each face.鈥疛oin鈥疍r.听Danny听Le Roy听as he highlights his application of economic principles in view听of听better understanding and resolving problems in Canadian agriculture and agri-food.听
Dr. Danny鈥疞e Roy听
Dr. Danny鈥疞e Roy is an Associate Professor of Economics at the 免费福利资源在线看片 of Lethbridge and Senior Fellow with the Fraser Institute.鈥疕is听research focusses on production,听marketing听and trade of agricultural commodities. He is particularly interested in the effects of government interventionism.鈥疍r. Le Roy听teaches courses in agricultural systems modeling, commodity marketing, agricultural听policy听and microeconomics. He has served as the coordinator of the Agricultural Studies Program since 2010 and is a former Chair of the Department of Economics at听ULethbridge. He has received the Agricultural Students Association Distinguished Teaching Award on two occasions and鈥痺as the Prairie Baseball Academy鈥檚 Professor of the Year in 2018.听He received his BA听(Honours) in Economics from Carleton 免费福利资源在线看片 and his MSc and PhD in Agricultural Economics and Business in from the 免费福利资源在线看片 of Guelph.听听听
Contact:
Karin Champion | karin.champion@uleth.ca | 403-329-2307