CARBONDALE - A Federal Reserve Bank official will be delivering the premier lecture on economics at Southern Illinois University Carbondale at the end of September.

Robert. H. Rasche, executive vice president and senior policy adviser at the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, will give a lecture, "The Report of the Death of the Economy was an Exaggeration," at 6 p.m. Sept. 30 in the SIUC Student Center Auditorium. The speech will serve as the annual Vandeveer Chair Lecture in Economics and is free and open to the public.

Rasche works in the research division of the Federal Reserve Bank and is the author of numerous articles, including a forthcoming one in the International Journal of Central Banking. He was a professor of economics for 24 years before joining the bank. He earned a doctoral degree from the University of Michigan in 1966.

The speech is the seventh annual lectured sponsored by the Vandeveer chair, which was endowed in 1960 through a gift from SIUC alumnus W.W. Vandeveer. The lecture series brings in economists for discussions on topics of general interest related to economics and social sciences.

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