McKenzie Lecture

May 9th, 2008 at 4:00-6:00 p.m. in Gleason 318/418
Daron Acemoglu is the Charles P. Kindleberger Professor of Applied Economics at MIT.
Title: "Institutional Persistence: Is There an Iron Law of Oligarchy?"

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Lectures

McKenzie Lecture

Starting in the Spring of 1986, graduate students have chosen an outstanding scholar to visit for a day, giving a lecture and talking with graduate students. This series honors Lionel McKenzie for his outstanding contribution to the field of economics and for his life-long commitment to the Rochester Ph.D. program.

The Department provides the Graduate Student Council with the funds necessary to pay for travel and an honorarium. The students usually arrange a "pot-luck" dinner for the speaker, which provides an ideal setting for informal discussions between students and the speaker.

Some of the most influential contemporary economists have participated in this series.

List of McKenzie Lectures

The Gilbert Lecture Series was started by the friends of Donald W. Gilbert, following his death in 1957. A central idea of the lecture series is to illuminate the practical side of economics, and show how economics can illuminate contemporary policy debates. The Gilbert Lecturers comprise a distinguished group. Eleven of the Gilbert Lecturers subsequently received the Nobel Prize. Others have held influential policy-making positions in the US and elsewhere.

List of Gilbert Lectures

Carnegie-Rochester Series on Public Policy

Founded by Karl Brunner and Alan Meltzer in November of 1973, this series has provided young scholars with a forum in which to present and debate frontier research that relates to public policy. This series has published some of the most influential papers in Macroeconomics during the last two decades, including the famous Lucas critique ("Econometric Policy Evaluation: A Critique"), which revolutionized modern macroeconomics.

The series sponsors two conferences per year, one held at Carnegie-Mellon University in November, and the other in Rochester in April. Rochester graduate students are invited to be active participants in the April conference; over the years they have contributed greatly to the open discussion which is a hallmark of this series.