Toles to Simplify Economics During UB Talk

By Arthur Page

Release Date: January 25, 1999 This content is archived.

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BUFFALO, N.Y. -- Pulitzer Prize-winning editorial cartoonist and University at Buffalo alumnus Tom Toles will speak on "Economics Made Simpler than Economists Make It..." at 12:30 p.m. on Feb. 1 in the Screening Room of the Center for the Arts on the UB North (Amherst) Campus.

Toles' talk, which will be free and open to the public, is part of the invited speaker series of the new master's program in applied economics.

Editorial cartoonist for The Buffalo News, Toles received a bachelor's degree from UB in 1973. While at UB, he was the editorial cartoonist for The Spectrum.

His work now appears in more than 200 newspapers in the U.S. and Canada, as well as The New Republic and U.S. News and World Report.

Toles is well-known for his insight and humor in addressing such environmental concerns as population growth, America's love affair with the car, suburban sprawl, the fate of old-growth forests, state parks, global warming and efforts in Washington to play havoc with environmental laws and protections.

For further information about the talk, contact Shelly Cohen in the Department of Economics at 645-2121, ext. 19.