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Past Speakers

Speaker Institution Lecture Title Date
Emi Nakamura University of California, Berkeley Natural Experiments to Guide Macroeconomic Policy 04/18/24
Nicholas Bloom Stanford University How Working from Home Will Work Out 11/16/22
Douglas Bernheim Stanford University Projective Paternalism 02/27/19
Caroline Hoxby Stanford University Taking Productivity in Education Seriously: Neuroscience, Adolescence, and Evidence 05/23/18
Raj Chetty Stanford University Improving Equality of Opportunity: New Lessons from Big Data 03/09/17
Randy Wright Wisconsin School of Business New Monetarist Economics: Theory and Policy Implications. 04/02/15
Al Roth Stanford University The Economist as Engineer 04/10/14
George Borjas Harvard Kennedy School The Consequences of Immigration: Economic Winners and Losers 02/21/13
Hal Varian Google Predicting the Present with Google Trends 04/03/12
David Card University of California, Berkeley Immigration: Economics, Attitudes, and Policies 03/01/11
Thomas Cooley New York University Financial Pollution: Systemic Risk and The Financial Crisis 02/23/10
Robert Shiller Yale University Animal Spirits: How Human Psychology Drives the Economy 04/29/09
Dr. Robert Townsend University of Chicago Evaluating the Financial Systems of Emerging Market Economies: Applied General Equilibrium Development Economics 04/29/08
Dr. Claudia Goldin Harvard University American Leadership and the Human Capital Century: The Virtues of the Past 05/22/07
Jean Tirole Institut 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 Fehr University of Zurich The Nature of Human Altruism 03/07/05
Edward C. Prescott Arizona State University Why Do Americans Work So Much More Than Europeans 02/10/04
Stephen A. Ross Massachusetts Institute of Technology Behavioral Finance 02/26/03
John Y. Campbell Harvard University Strategic Asset Allocation: Portfolio Choice for Long-Term Investors 05/14/02
Robert Wilson Stanford Business School Electricity Market Design 05/16/01
Charles Plott California Institute of Technology Markets as Info. Gathering Tools: Rational Expectations and the Uses of Laboratory Methods in Economics 05/24/00
Kenneth Binmore University College London How and Why did Fairness Norms Evolve? 10/14/98
William Sharpe Stanford University Investments: Theory and Practice 02/26/98
Vernon L. Smith Arizona University Experimental Economics 05/14/97
Douglass C. North Washington University Order, Disorder and Change: Problems in the Transition Economies of Eastern Europe 04/03/96
Paul Krugman Stanford University The End of the Washington Consensus 04/13/95
Merton Miller University of Chicago Rambo vs. Godzilla - US-Japanese Trade Relations in the Nineties 04/21/94
Jeffrey Sachs Harvard University Russia's Economic Prospects 05/05/93
James Heckman University of Chicago The Impact of Civil Rights and Affirmative Action Policies on the Economic Status of Black Americans 05/07/92
Gordon Tullock University of Arizona Public Choice: The Economics of Politics 05/17/91
Donald McCloskey University of Iowa If You're So Smart... 03/16/90
Lawrence Summers Harvard University National Saving and The American Competitiveness Problem 05/04/89
F. M. Scherer Swarthmore College The World Productivity Slump 04/28/88
Mancur Olson University 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. McFadden MIT Is There Life After Debt: The Plight of the Third World Countries 04/04/85
Gerard Debreu University of California Economic Theory in the Mathematical Mode 05/17/84
Thomas Sargent University of Minnesota Reaganomics and Credibility 04/21/83
Zvi Griliches Harvard University Analyzing Patent Statistics, Problems and Promise 11/10/81
Robert Hall Stanford University Racial Monetary Reform to End Inflation 05/19/81
Amartya Sen Oxford University Famines 04/22/80
Armen A. Alchian UCLA Misfortunes of Economic Misperceptions 04/24/79
Robert W. Fogel Harvard University Cliometrics and Culture: Some Recent Developments in the Historiography of Slavery 01/16/79
Peter Diamond MIT Improving Social Security 02/08/78
Gary Becker University of Chicago The Role of Altruism and Selfishness in Economic Life 01/26/78
Martin S. Feldstein Harvard University The Health Care Crisis and National Health Insurance 01/18/77
Ezra Mishan London School of Economics Economic Progress and the Good Life: Are They Compatible? 11/02/76
James M. Buchanan Virginia Polytechnic Institute Keynesian Economics and Democracy 01/21/76
Marc Nerlove Northwestern University Household and Economy: Toward a Theory of Population and Economic Growth 04/03/75
William J. Baumol New York University Public Subvention to the Arts 02/14/74
Leonid Hurwicz University of Minnesota Utopia and the Status Quo 04/12/73
Kenneth J. Arrow Harvard University The Economics of Social Responsibility 04/19/72
Dale W. Jorgenson Harvard University Explanation of Productivity Changes: Sources of United States' Economic Growth 05/13/71
Harry Johnson University of Chicago The International Monetary Problem 05/28/70
Gregory C. Chow IBM The Uses and Limitations of Economics for Public Policy 04/09/69
Robert Solow MIT The Problem of Inflation 04/03/68
Lawrence Klein University of Pennsylvania Government Policy and the American Economy: A Two-Year Economic Forecast 05/24/67
George Stigler University of Chicago The Triumph of Ignorance over Prejudice 03/15/66
James Tobin Yale University The Future of the Dollar as International Money 03/23/65
Milton Friedman University of Chicago Money Management in the United States: The Record 03/10/64
Paul A. Samuelson MIT Economic Stagnation 04/16/63
Gardiner C. Means Committee for Economic Development Pricing Power and Public Interest 05/17/62