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Date: February 7, 1997


FTC Economist to Discuss Consumer Protection Policy

Princeton, N.J. -- Jonathan Baker, director of the Federal Trade Commission's Bureau of Economics, will discuss "Reinventing Competition and Consumer Protection Policy" at Princeton University's Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs on Wednesday, February 19, at 4:30 p.m. in Bowl 1, Robertson Hall.

Baker previously served as a senior economist at the Council of Economic Advisers and as a special assistant to the deputy assistant attorney general for economics in the Antitrust Division of the U.S. Department of Justice. He has also been an assistant professor at Dartmouth's Amos Tuck School of Business Administration and an antitrust lawyer in private practice.

Baker holds a Ph.D. in economics from Stanford and a J.D. from Harvard. He taught antitrust and economic regulation law to students at Georgetown and Duke. He has published widely in the fields of empirical industrial organization economics and antitrust law and policy.

His talk is being sponsored by the Woodrow Wilson School.

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