FEW October Mtg: Having Meaningful Conversations with People Who Think Differently - and Get Along

FEW Members, please note: this meeting will be a virtual Zoom meeting. Upon registration, you will receive a confirmation email with the Zoom link.

King Banaian is dean of the School of Public Affairs and professor of economics at St. Cloud State University.  King was state representative in the Minnesota House for District 15B, 2011-13. As such he has often been in discussion and debate with people with whom he disagrees.  Many of them are friends.  How can you keep your friendships while disagreeing and not sacrificing your own values?  King teaches us today how to listen for cues on those disagreements and how to respond.

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King Banaian is dean of the School of Public Affairs at St. Cloud State University. He is also a professor in the Department of Economics at SCSU. He holds the Ph.D. in economics from the Claremont Graduate School. He is author of The Ukrainian Economy since Independence (Edward Elgar, 1998), co-editor of The Design and Use of Political Economy Indicators (Palgrave, 2008) and more than forty articles and book chapters discussing monetary policy and political economy. He has served as a consultant to central banks and governments in several developing. King was state representative in the Minnesota House for District 15B, 2011-13. He is also host of the King Banaian Show on Business1440 KYCR broadcast in Minneapolis, and co-author of the St. Cloud Quarterly Business Report. He lives in St. Cloud, Minnesota, with his wife Barbara.