Past Speakers
Speaker | Institution | Lecture Title | Date |
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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 | 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 |