GOLDMAN LECTURE IN ECONOMICS (started in 1993) LIST OF SPEAKERS
November 12, 2015, Alan B. Krueger Bendheim Professor of Economics and Public Affairs at Princeton University Work in the Sharing Economy
September 11, 2014, Angus Deaton Dwight D. Eisenhower Professor of International Affairs and Professor of Economics and International Affairs, Woodrow Wilson School 2015 Nobel Prize in Economics Winner The Great Escape: Health, Wealth and the Origins of Inequality
October 2, 2013, Charles Evans President of the Chicago Federal Reserve Bank A Perspective on Monetary Policy
September 13, 2012, Doug Elmendorf Director of the Congressional Budget Office Choices for Federal Spending and Taxes
September 12, 2011, Esther Duflo Abdul Latif Jameel Professor of Poverty Alleviation and Development Economics, MIT Poor Economics: A Radical Rethinking of the Way to Fight Global Poverty
March 30, 2011, Cecilia Rouse Council of Economic Advisors Economic Policymaking During the Great Recession: A Perspective from the CEA
February 16, 2010, David Leonhardt Financial Columnist with the New York Times Read My Lips: The Coming Struggle Over Tax Policy
October 27, 2008, Peter Orszag Director of the congressional Budget Office Preparing for Our Common Future: Policy Choices and the Economics of Climate Change
March 31, 2008: Douglas Holz-Eakin John McCain’s Chief Economic Advisor U.S.. Policy Challenges
October 6, 2005: Lawrence Summers President, Harvard University The World’s Greatest Power as the World’s Greatest Debtor: Reflections on the United States Current Account Deficit
February 23, 2005: Martin Feldstein Geroge F. Baker Professor of Economics at Harvard University and President and CEO of the National Bureau of Economic Research. REFORMING SOCIAL SECURITY
April 26, 2004 Benjamin M. Friedman The William Joseph Maier Professor of Political Economy at Harvard Univeristy. IS THE GOVERNMENT'S BUDGET DEFICIT A SERIOUS PROBLEM? AND IF SO, WHAT SHOULD BE DONE ABOUT IT
March 13, 2003: Boris Nemtsov Member, Russian State Duma, Leader of the Union of Right Forces Party, First Deputy Prime Minister Under President Boris Yeltsin. PUTIN: IS HE GOOD FOR DEMOCRACY?
February 25, 2003: Paul Krugman Professor of Economics and International Affairs at Princeton and Op-Ed columnist for the New York Times. WHAT WENT WRONG?
April 8, 2002: Alan Blinder Professor at Princeton University, past member of the Council of Economic Advisors under the Clinton Administration and former member of the Federal Reserve Board. ECONOMIC ADVICE AND POLITICAL DECISIONS: A CLASH OF CIVILIZATIONS.
April 17, 2001: Joseph Stiglitz Guest Fellow at the Brookings Institute , Former Chief Economist at the World Bank. TALE OF TWO COUNTRIES: CHINA AND RUSSIA’S TRANSITION TO A MARKET ECONOMY
April 12, 2000: Boris Nemtsov Deputy Speaker of the Russian Duma and Former First Deputy Prime Minister RUSSIA’S NEW PRESIDENT - NOW WHAT?
January 26, 2000: Yegor Gaidar Acting Prime Minister of Russia in 1992, and a leading reformer CAN RUSSIA EMERGE FROM ITS ECONOMIC CHAOS?
October 26, 1999: Lester Thurow Lemelson Professor of Management and Economics, MIT BUILDING WEALTH IN A KNOWLEDGE-BASED SOCIETY
February 24, 1999: John Kenneth Galbraith The Paul Warburg Professor of Economics Emeritus, Harvard University ECONOMICS AND INNOCENT FRAUD
February 16, 1999: Boris Nemtsov Former First Deputy Prime Minister of Russia, and Former Gov. of Nizhnii Novgorod RUSSIA - YOU CANNOT UNDERSTAND IT: YOU CAN ONLY BELIEVE IT
September 24, 1998: Stanley Fischer First Deputy Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund RECENT DEVELOPMENTS IN RUSSIA
September 18, 1997: June E. O’Neill Director, Congressional Budget Office THE BALANCED BUDGET AGREEMENT: A NEW ERA?
September 18, 1996: Alicia Munnell Member, President’s Council of Economic Advisors. GROWING FASTER
October 5, 1995: Janet Yellen Board member, Board of Governors, The Federal Reserve Bank System. THE CHALLENGE OF IMPLEMENTING MONETARY POLICY
March 1, 1995: Charles Kindleberger Professor of Economics, MIT BUBBLES: FINANCIAL SPECULATION
February 9, 1994: Paul Volcker (Former Chairman of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve Bank), Chairman of James D. Wolfensohn, Inc., and Frederck H. Schultz Professor of International Economics Policy at Princeton University. THE WORLD OF CENTRAL BANKING
March 15, 1993: Robert Solow Nobel Laureate, Professor of Economics, MIT GROWTH WITH EQUITY
Calderwood Lectures (started in 2006) LIST OF SPEAKERS
2014: Diane Whitmore Schanzenbach Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research and Associate Professor in the School of Education and Social Policy, Northwestern University Lifetime Impacts of the Safety Net: The Long-term Effects of Access to Food Stamps on Health, Education and Income
2013: Amy Finkelstein MIT Health Care for All
2012: Rob Stavins Harvard University Beyond Kyoto
2011: Dani Rodrik John F. Kennedy School of Government The Political Trilemma of The World Economy
2010: Brigitte Madrian John F. Keenedy School of Government Behavioral Economics in the Real World: Default Options and Retirement Savings Outcomes
2009: David Card Professor of Economics, University of California, Berkley
2008: Jonathan Gruber Margaret MacVicar Faculty Fellow, MIT
2007: Daron Acemoglu Charles P. Kindleberger Professor of Applied Economics, MIT