2009 Herb Kay Lecture
Join the department on May 13, 2009 for the 12th Herbert C. Kay Undergraduate Lecture, featuring Paul Sams, UCSB alumnus and COO of Blizzard Entertainment, Inc.
updated Nov 20, 2009


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Dr. Robert TownsendUniversity of Chicago“"Evaluating the Financial Systems of Emerging Market Economies: Applied General Equilibrium Development Economics"”04/29/08
Dr. Claudia GoldinHarvard University“American Leadership and the Human Capital Century: The Virtues of the Past”05/22/07
Jean TiroleInstitut d Economie Industrielle“Platform industries: How telecoms, software , credit cards,media, and videogames differ from other markets, and what it means for the future of the economy”04/25/06
Ernst FehrUniversity of Zurich“The Nature of Human Altruism”03/07/05
Edward C. PrescottArizona State University“Why Do Americans Work So Much More Than Europeans”02/10/04
Stephen A. RossMassachusetts Institute o“Behavioral Finance”02/26/03
John Y. CampbellHarvard University“Strategic Asset Allocation: Portfolio Choice for Long-Term Investors”05/14/02
Robert WilsonStanford Business School“Electricity Market Design”05/16/01
Charles PlottCalifornia Institute of T“Markets as Info. Gathering Tools: Rational Expectationsand the Uses of Laboratory Methods in Economi”05/24/00
Kenneth BinmoreUniversity College London“How and Why did Fairness Norms Evolve?”10/14/98
William SharpeStanford University“Investments: Theory and Practice”02/26/98
Vernon L. SmithArizona University“Experimental Economics”05/14/97
Douglass C. NorthWashington University“Order, Disorder and Change: Problems in the Transistion Economies of Eastern Europe”04/03/96
Paul KrugmanStanford University“The End of the Washington Consensus”04/13/95
Merton MilleUniversity of Chicago“Rambo vs. Godzilla - US-Japanese Trade Relations in the Nineties”04/21/94
Jeffrey SachsHarvard University“Russia's Economic Prospects”05/05/93
James HeckmanUniversity of Chicago“The Impact of Civil Rights and Affirmative Action Policies on the Economic Status of Black Americans”05/07/92
Gordon TullockUniversity of Arizona“Public Choice: The Economics of Politics”05/17/91
Donald McCloskeyUniversity of Iowa“If You're So Smart...”03/16/90
Lawrence SummersHarvard University“National Saving and The American Competitiveness Problem”05/04/89
F. M. SchererSwarthmore College“The World Productivity Slump”04/28/88
Mancur OlsonUniversity of Maryland“The Rise and Decline of Nations - Further Thoughts”05/27/87
Robert E. Lucas, Jr.University of Chicago“On the Mechanics of Economic Development”05/19/86
Daniel L. McFaddenMIT“Is There Life After Debt: The Plight of the Third World Countries”04/04/85
Gerard DebreuUniversity of California,“Economic Theory in the Mathematical Mode”05/17/84
Thomas SargentUniversity of Minnesota“Reaganomics and Credibility”04/21/83
Zvi GrilichesHarvard University“Analyzing Patent Statistics, Problems and Promise”11/10/81
Robert HallStanford University“Racial Monetary Reform to End Inflation”05/19/81
Amartya SenOxford University“Famines”04/22/80
Armen A. AlchianUCLA“Misfortunes of Economic Misperceptions”04/24/79
Robert W. FogelHarvard University“Cliometrics and Culture: Some Recent Developments in the Historiography of Slavery”01/16/79
Peter DiamondMIT“Improving Social Security”02/08/78
Gary BeckerUniversity of Chicago“The Role of Altrusim and Selfishness in Economic Life”01/26/78
Martin S. FeldsteinHarvard University“The Health Care Crisis and National Health Insurance”01/18/77
Ezra MishanLondon School of Economic“Economic Progress and the Good Life: Are They Compatible”11/02/76
James M. BuchananVirginia Polytechnic Inst“Keynesian Economics and Democracy”01/21/76
Marc NerloveNorthwestern University“Household and Economy: Toward a Theory of Population and Economic Growth”04/03/75
William J. BaumolNew York University“Public Subvention to the Arts”02/14/74
Leonid HurwiczUniversity of Minnesota“Utopia and the Status Quo”04/12/73
Kenneth J. ArrowHarvard University“The Economics of Social Responsibility”04/19/72
Dale W. JorgensonHarvard University“Explanation of Productivity Changes: Sources of United States' Economic Growth”05/13/71
Harry JohnsonUniversity of Chicago“The International Monetary Problem”05/28/70
Gregory C. ChowIBM“The Uses and Limitations of Economics for Public Policy”04/09/69
Robert SolowMIT“The Problem of Inflation”04/03/68
Lawrence KleinUniversity of Pennsylvani“Government Policy and the American Economy: A Two Year Economic Forecast”05/24/67
George StiglerUniversity of Chicago“The Triumph of Ignorance over Prejudice”03/15/66
James TobinYale University“The Future of the Dollar as International Money”03/23/65
Milton FriedmanUniversity of Chicago“Money Management in the United States: The Record”03/10/64
Paul A. SamuelsonMIT“Economic Stagnation”04/16/63
Gardiner C. MeansCommittee for Economic De“Pricing Power and Public Interest”05/17/62