<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=windows-1252"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;"><div apple-content-edited="true"><div style="orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; widows: auto; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; word-spacing: 0px; white-space: normal; text-transform: none; letter-spacing: normal;"><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); text-align: center; orphans: 2; widows: 2; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;"><br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); text-align: center; orphans: 2; widows: 2; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;"><font size="4">The Bard MBA In Sustainability Presents</font></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); text-align: center; orphans: 2; widows: 2; word-wrap: break-word; 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-webkit-line-break: after-white-space;"><font size="5">Dr. Frank Ackerman</font></div><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;"><br></div><div style="text-align: start; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;"><div style="text-align: center; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(69, 73, 78); font-family: 'Benton Sans', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; letter-spacing: 0.5px; orphans: auto; widows: auto;">Fri, November 17, 2017</div><div style="text-align: center; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(69, 73, 78); font-family: 'Benton Sans', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; letter-spacing: 0.5px; orphans: auto; widows: auto;">9:00 AM – 10:30 AM </div><div style="text-align: center; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(69, 73, 78); font-family: 'Benton Sans', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; 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padding: 0px; font-family: 'Benton Sans', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; letter-spacing: 0.5px; orphans: auto; widows: auto;"><div class="js-xd-read-more-toggle-view read-more__toggle-view" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; overflow: hidden; position: relative; word-wrap: break-word;"><div class="js-xd-read-more-contents l-mar-top-3" data-automation="listing-event-description" style="margin: 15px 0px 0px; padding: 0px;"><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><font color="#232323">Please join economist and author Dr. Frank Ackerman as he talks about his new book <i style="padding-top: 0px;">Worst Case Economics: Extreme Events in Climate and Finance</i> (Anthem Press). </font></div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 10px 0px 0px;"><i style="padding-top: 0px;"><font color="#232323">“Ackerman’s Worst-Case Economics will convince you that the conventional economic modeling of risk is inadequate when financial crashes, environmental collapse and other cataclysmic outcomes are possible and that policies based on prudence regarding the worst-case scenario are needed. An important book and a delight to read.” —Samuel Bowles, Research Professor and Director, Behavioral Science Program, Santa Fe Institute, New Mexico, USA</font></i></div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 10px 0px 0px;"><font color="#232323"><span style="padding-top: 0px;">Ackerman is Principal Economist at Synapse Energy and a lecturer at MIT.</span><i> </i>Other recent books include <i>Can We Afford the Future? Economics for a Warming World </i>(Zed Books, 2009), <i>Poisoned for Pennies: The Economics of Toxics and Precaution </i>(Island Press, 2008),[3] and<i> Priceless: On Knowing the Price of Everything and the Value of Nothing</i> (The New Press, 2004, with Lisa Heinzerling)</font></div></div></div></div></div><div style="text-align: start; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;"><br></div><div style="text-align: start; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;">______________________</div><div style="text-align: start; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;"><br></div><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; text-align: start;"><span style="font-size: 15px;"><a href="http://www.bard.edu/mba" style="text-align: center;">Bard’s MBA in Sustainability</a><span style="orphans: auto; widows: auto;"> is one of a handful of programs around the world where </span><a href="http://www.bard.edu/mba/about/sustainability/" style="orphans: auto; widows: auto;">sustainability and a focus on mission-driven business is fully integrated into a graduate MBA curriculum</a><span style="orphans: auto; widows: auto;">. Lear more at our </span><a href="https://connect.bard.edu/register/nov1openhouse" style="text-align: center;">Graduate Program Open House in NYC on 11/1.</a></span></div><div style="text-align: start; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;"><br></div><div style="text-align: start; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;"><br></div><div style="text-align: start; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;"><br></div></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); orphans: 2; widows: 2; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;">______________________</div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); orphans: 2; widows: 2; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;"><br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); orphans: 2; widows: 2; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;">Dr. Eban Goodstein / Director, Graduate Programs in Sustainability</div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); orphans: 2; widows: 2; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;">Bard College</div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); orphans: 2; widows: 2; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;"><br><a href="http://www.bard.edu/mba">MBA in Sustainability</a><br><a href="http://www.bard.edu/cep">MS in Environmental Policy and MS in Climate Science and Policy</a><br><a href="http://www.bard.edu/cep/program/ms-education/">M. Ed in Environmental Education</a><br><br>845-758-7067<br><a href="mailto:ebangood@bard.edu">ebangood@bard.edu</a><br></div></div>
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