Guest Lecturers
Economics Lecture-Seminar Series
1963 to Present
Department of Economics
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