PUBLIC LECTURE: UWA Business School Public Lecture with Professor Peter Zweifel

The future of public health and other welfare programs is a hotly debated topic between politicians and interest groups. Professor Peter Zweifel will discuss recent experiments that reveal the willingness of people to sacrifice their own income in favour of the needy. The experiments were conducted in Switzerland where the tradition of direct democracy might be expected to keep the level of income redistribution in line with public opinion.

Peter Zweifel is a leading expert in industrial organisation with a special interest in health economics and insurance economics. After studying at the University of Zurich, he held positions at the University of Wisconsin and the University of Armed Forces in Munich. He became an Assistant Professor of International Economics at the University of Zurich in 1983, and Professor of Economics in 1990.

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