Author John Perkins gave a talk on global economics, a subject that forms the basis of his most recent books, [The Secret History of the American Empire: The Truth About Economic Hit Men, Jackals ...

Former Yale professor Leonard Wantchekon returned to the University to deliver the Economic Growth Center’s 31st Annual Kuznets Memorial Lecture on economic development.

He has delivered major invited lectures at universities and congresses around the world including the Walras-Bowley Lecture of the Econometric Society, and has served as editor for a large number of ...

Economist Ariel Rubinstein spoke on Monday afternoon at Crotty Hall at the University of Massachusetts about his current research in a lecture titled “A Typology of Players: Between Instinctive and ...

Prof. Richard Thaler, one of the founders of the field of behavioral economics, will discuss his Nobel Prize-winning research at this year’s Nora and Edward Ryerson Lecture. The lecture, entitled ...

In talking about the lecture, Juliet Kostritsky remarked, “Professor Levmore is a leader among leaders in the field of law and economics.” She continued, “it was wonderful that he was able to stop by ...

Every spring, during college graduation season, I think about a former professor who uttered two astonishing sentences that changed the course of my life.

Alan S. Blinder, Distinguished Lecture on Economics in Government: What Central Bankers Could Learn from Academics--and Vice Versa, The Journal of Economic Perspectives, Vol. 11, No. 2 (Spring, 1997), ...

Bill Simon, a professor in the department of economics who unsuccessfully ran for California governor in 2002, received the My Last Lecture Award at a ceremony in De Neve Auditorium. (Ken Shin ...

Henry Farrell, an associate professor of political science at George Washington University, will speak on "Networks and Ideational Power: The Rise and Decline of Keynesianism During the Economic ...