Guest Lecturers

Economics Lecture-Seminar Series

1963 to Present

 

Department of Economics

Western Michigan University

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1963-64

Freedom and Capitalism                   

Directed by Werner Sichel

Yale Brozen

Abba P. Lerner

Adolf A. Berle

 

1965-66

The Future of Economic Policy        

Directed by Myron Ross

Paul McCracken

Robert Eisner

Theodore W. Schultz

Jesse Markham

Kenneth E. Boulding

Robert Triffin

 

1966-67

Key Factors in Economic Growth     

Directed by Raymond Zelder

Martin Bronfenbrenner

Nicholas Spulber

Milos Samardzija

Lauchlin Currie

Edmundo Flores

Alexander Eckstein

 

1967-68

The Cost of Conflict

Directed by John Copps

Kenneth E. Boulding

Thomas C. Schelling

Seymour Melman

Murray L. Weidenbaum

Roger E. Boulton

Emile Benoit

 

1968-69

America’s Cities                               

Directed by Wayland Gardner

Wilbur R. Thompson

Hugh O. Nourse

Richard F. Muth

Dick Netzer

Werner Z. Hirsch

 

1969-70

Antitrust Policy and Economic Welfare

Directed by Werner Sichel

Walter Adams

Jules Backman

Almarin Phillips

Richard B. Heflebower

Jesse Markham

William G. Shepherd

 

1970-71

Economic Policies of the 1970's       

Directed by Alfred Ho

David I. Fand

James M. Buchanan

Martin Bronfenbrenner

Bela Belassa

Gardner Ackley

Harry G. Johnson

 

1971-72

Economics of Environmental Problems

Directed by Frank Emerson

Joseph L. Fisher

Lester B. Lave

Robert H. Haveman

William S. Vickery

Jerome Rothenberg

 

1972-73

Perspectives on the Economics of Education

Directed by Myron Ross

Charles Killingsworth

Samuel Bowles

Richard Eckaus

Theodore W. Schultz

Jerry Miner

 

 

1973-74

The Medical Care Industry: The Economist’s Point of View          

Directed by Joseph Morreale

Paul Feldstein

Harry Schwartz

Gerald Rosenthal

Donal Yett

Reuben Kessel

Herbert Klarman

 

1974-75

The Economic Effects of Multinational Corporations         

Directed by Werner Sichel

William James Adams

George H. Hildebrand

Harry Magdoff

Gary C. Hufbauer

Gerhard Rosegger

William G. Shepherd

 

1975-76

The Political Economy of Food and Energy

Directed by Louis Junker

George Borgstrom

Michael Perelman

Russell Parker

Herbert Schiller

Arthur Domike

Nicholas Georgescu-Roegen

 

1976-77

What I would Advise Now: The View of 6 Former Members of the Council of Economic Advisers

Directed by Werner Sichel

Paul W. McCracken

Roy Blough

Hendrik S. Houthakker

James Duesenberry

Marina v.N. Witman

James Tobin

 

 

1977-78

Monetarists and Keynesians:  How Far Apart Are They?

Directed by Salim Harik

Robert Clower

David Fand

Robert Eisner

Leonall Andersen

Ronald Teigen

Anna Schwartz

 

1978-79

Financial Institutions in the 1980's: The Public Policy Issues

Directed by Phillip Caruso

Edward Kane

Arnold Heggestad

Jean Lovati

Phillip Cagan

George Benston

Almarin Phillips

 

 1979-80

 Finance and Public Choice

Directed by Wayland Gardner

Robert H. Haveman

Dennis C. Meuller

Geoffrey Brennan

Albert Breton

Douglass C. North

Richard A. Musgrave

 

1980-81

Petroleum and Energy                       

Directed by Salim Harik

Morris A. Adelman

Norman Fieleke

Hossein Askari

William L. Fisher

Lawrence Kumins

James Hanson

 

 

1981-82

Lagging American Productivity: Permanent Affliction or Temporary Ailment?

Directed by Bassam Harik

Kenneth H. Militzer

Frederick M. Scherer

John A. Tatom

Mordechai E. Kreinin

Laurits R. Chistensen

Edward F. Denison

 

1982-83

Applied Economics: Private and Public Decision-Making

Directed by Sisay Asefa

Arnold Harberger

James V. Koch

Lester Lave

Paul Feldstein

Earl Heady

Alvin J. Karchere

Robert Dorfman

 

1983-84

The Economics of Aging                  

Directed by Myron Ross

Joseph F. Quinn

Harold L. Sheppard

James H. Schulz

Alicia Munnell

Monroe Berkowitz

Robert Clark

 

1984-85

The Economics of International Migration

Directed by Susan Pozo

George J. Borjas

Michael Piore

Vernon M. Briggs, Jr.

Barry Chiswick

Francine Blau

Jagdish Bhagwati

 

 

1985-86

Tax Reform in the United States: Which Way To Go?

Directed by Bassam Harik

Laurence Kotlikoff

Joseph Minarik

Ronald Fisher

Robert Hall

Sheldon Danziger

Joseph Stiglitz                       

 

1986-87

 Problems of World Food and Agriculture

Directed by Sisay Asefa

Vernon W. Ruttan

Bruce F. Johnson

Jon W. Mellor

Uma Lele

Peter Timmer

Carl K. Eicher

 

1987-88

Organized Labor at the Crossroads

Directed by Wei-Chiao Huang

Sharon P. Smith

Thomas A. Kochan

George E. Johnson

Martin L. Weitzman

Richard B. Freeman

Orley Ashenfelter

 

1988-89

The State of Economic Science: The View of Six Nobel Laureates

Directed by Werner Sichel

Kenneth Arrow

Robert Solow

Lawrence Klein

James Tobin

James Buchanan

Herbert Simon

 

1989-90

The Economics of Discrimination                

Directed by Emily Hoffman

Edward Lazear

Paul J. Taubman

Barbara L. Wolfe

William Darity, Jr.

Johnathan S. Leonard

Glen G. Cain

Marianne A. Ferber

 

1990-91

Socialism in Transition                     

Directed by William Kern

Paul Marer

Abram Bergson

Paul Gregory

Josef Brada

Joseph Berliner

Herbert Levin

 

1991-92

The Economics of Education

Directed by Emily Hoffman

W. Lee Hansen

Estelle James

Eric A. Hanushek

Henry M. Levin

Mary Jean Bowman

Robert H. Meyer

 

1992-93

Human Capital and Economic Development

Directed by Wei-Chiao Huang

and Sisay Asefa

Richard A. Easterlin

D. Gale Johnson

Mark R. Rosenzweig

Kevin M. Murphy

Peter B. Doeringer

Ann P. Bartel

 

 

1993-94

The Underground Economy

Directed by Susan Pozo

Edgar L. Feige

James R. Alm

Peter Reuter

Alejandro Portes

Ann Dryden Witte

Richard B. Freeman

 

1994-95

The Economics of Rich and Poor: The Political Economy of Income Redistribution

Directed by Jon Neill

Gordon Tullock

Timothy Smeeding

Robert Haveman

John Formby

Rebecca Blank

Jere Behrman

 

1995-96

Telecommunications: Have Regulators Dialed the Wrong Number?

Directed by Donald Alexander

Robert Crandall

Frederick Williams

Thomas W. Hazlett

Barry Nalebuff

David L. Kaserman

Ronald R. Braeutigam

 

1996-97

The Economics of the Great Depression

Directed by Mark Wheeler

Robert A. Margo

Carol E. Heim

Michael A. Bernstein

James S. Fackler

Stepehn G. Cecchetti

David C. Wheelock

 

1997-98

When Is Transition Over?  Economic Reform in Post-Communist and Communist Countries

Directed by Annette Brown

Marie Lavigne

Alan H. Gelb

Anders Åslund

Nicholas R. Lardy

Jan Svejnar

János Kornai

 

1998-99

The Economics of Sports: Winners and Losers

Directed by William Kern

Rodney Fort

Robert A. Baade

John J. Siegfried

Richard G. Sheehan

Andrew Zimbalist

Lawrence M. Kahn

 

1999-2000

The Economics of Health Care         

Directed by Huizhong Zhou

Jonathan Gruber

Brigitte C. Madrian

Catherine G. McLaughlin

Robert B. Helms

Len  M. Nichols

Laurence C. Baker

 

2000-01

The Economics of Work and Family

Directed by Emily P. Hoffman and Jean Kimmel

David M. Blau

Barbara R. Bergmann

Cordelia W. Reimers

Susan L. Averett

Katherin Ross Phillips

Joyce P. Jacobsen

 

2001-02

The Economics of Risk

Directed by Donald Meyer

John H. Kagel

Katherine Swartz

Mark J. Machina

William R. Eadington

Rulon Dean Pope

Keith J. Crocker

 

2002-03

Methodology of Benefit Cost Analysis

Directed by Jon Neill

V. Kerry Smith

Edward M. Gramlich

Michael Hanemann

Robert Haveman

Lester B. Lave

Kenneth E. McConnell

 

2003-04

The Economics of Sustainable Development

Directed by Sisay Asefa

Malcolm Gillis

E. Wayne Nafziger

Venon W. Ruttan

David Lam

Theodore Panayotou

Daniel W. Bromley

 

2004-05

Regional Economic Development: Current Issues

Directed by Bassam Harik

William Schweke

Michael Luger

Andrew Isserman

Stuart Rosenfeld

Edward Hill

Ann Markusen

 

2005-06

Immigrants and Their International Money Flows

Directed by Susan Pozo

Oded Stark

Catalina Amuedo-Dorantes

Leah VanWey

David McKenzie

Christopher Woodruff

Robert E.B. Lucas

 

 

2006-07

How Do We Spend Our Time? Evidence from the American Time Use Survey

Directed by Jean Kimmel

Dan Hamermesh

Anne E. Polivka

Jennifer L. Ward-Batts

Jay Stewart

Cathleen D. Zick

Nancy Folbre

 

 

2007-08

Globalization and International Development: Critical Issues of the 21st Century

Directed by Sisay Asefa

Kenneth Reinert

Lisa D. Cook

Susan Pozo

Hadi Saleh Esfahani

Joseph Joyce

Linda Tesar

 

2008-09

The Economics of Natural and Unnatural Disasters

Directed by William Kern

Howard Kunreuther

Jamie Kruse

Hal Cochrane

Anthony Yezer

Daniel Sutter

Peter Boettke

 



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