CANTON -- St. Lawrence University’s Department of Economics Visiting Speaker Series will host Sandy Ikeda at 7:30 p.m. on Wednesday, April 27, in Hepburn Auditorium.

Ikeda will present his lecture on Jane Jacobs, who was known world-wide as an activist and critic of urban-planning theory and practice. Jacobs, who died in 2006, also believed that her main intellectual contribution was in economics, where her ideas were fundamentally at odds with conventional microeconomics and macroeconomics. For Jacobs, urban processes and market processes are one and the same.

Ikeda is a professor of economics at the State University of New York at Purchase and is the author of The Dynamics of the Mixed Economy: Toward a Theory of Interventionism. He earned his Ph.D. from New York University in 1988 and has taught at SUNY Purchase since 1990.

For more information, contact 229-5430 or visit www.stlawu.edu/economics.