Complete List of Woodward Lectures
- October 2012: Michael Kremer, Harvard University
Health and Development - April 2012: Alberto Alesina, Harvard University
Fiscal Policy after the Great Recession - October 2009: Mark Rosenzweig, Yale University
Global Wage Inequality and the International Flow of Migrants and Altruism, Favoritism, and Guilt in the Allocation of Family Resources: Sophie’s Choice in Mao’s Mass Send-Down Movement - September 2008: Susan Athey, Harvard University
Market Design in Theory and Practice: Sponsored Search Auctions and Position Auctions with Consumer Search - March 2008: David Card, University of California, Berkeley
How Immigration is shaping Major Cities and Does Medicare Save Lives? - September 2006: Daron Acemoglu, MIT
Learning and Disagreement in an Uncertain World and Rethinking the Wealth of Nations - February 2005: Matthew Rabin, University of California, Berkeley
The Economics of Immediate Gratification and A Model of Reference-Dependent Preferences - March 2004: Maurice Obstfeld, University of California, Berkeley
Globalization in Historical Perspective and The Case for Open Market Operations in a Liquidity Trap - September 2003: Ariel Rubinstein, Tel Aviv University & Princeton University
John Nash, A Beautiful Mind and Game Theory and Equilibrium in the Jungle - February 2002: Daniel McFadden, University of California, Berkeley
Economic Choices and Healthy, Wealthy, & Wise? Tests for Direct Causal Paths - November 2001: Richard Freeman, Harvard University & LSE
The Impact of the Internet on the Economy and Liking the Workplace You Have: The Incumbency Effect in Preferences Toward Unions - November 2000: Bengt Holmstrom, MIT
Corporate Governance and Takeovers in the US: Making Sense of the 80s and 90s and Shortage and Waste of Liquidity - November 1999: George Akerlof, University of California, Berkeley
Economics and Identity - March 1999: Peter Howitt, Ohio State University
Innovation and Growth and The Emergence of Economic Organization - March 1997: Richard Blundell, University College, London
Risk Sharing and Growth of Consumption and Reforming our Tax and Welfare System - March 1996: Jeffrey G. Williamson, Harvard Universit
Globalization and the Convergence of Nations: What Does History Tell Us? and Dealing with the Challenge of Globalization: A Long View - February 1995: Robin Boadway, Queen’s University
The Changing Face of Canadian Federalism: The Fiscal Dimension and Reforming Social Policy: Can the Federal Government Deliver? - September 1994: Ken Binmore, University College, London
Playing Fair: Game Theory and the Social Contract and Squaring the Circle: Rational Cooperation in the Prisoners’ Dilemma - January 1994: Andrei Shleifer, Harvard University
Privatizing Russia I and Privatizing Russia II - March 1993: David M. Newbery, University of Cambridge
The Privatisation of the English Electricity Industry, The Transition in Eastern Europe, and UK Energy Policy Versus EC Environmental Policy - November 1991: Oliver S. Hart, MIT
Recent Developments in the Theory of the Firm and The Modern Corporation: The Theory of its Financial Structure - February 1990: Paul Krugman, MIT
Thinking About the Debt Problem and Third World Debt: Their Problem or Ours? - March 1989: Thomas Schelling, Harvard University
Self-Command, A New Discipline and Strategic Arms Control: What Makes Sense? - January 1987: Paul Samuelson, MIT
Deterministic Chaos - March 1986: Partha Dasgupta, University of Cambridge
The Silent Food War - October 1985: Robert E. Hall, Stanford University
Tax Reform: The Flat Tax and the Current Debate and Monetary Reform: Deregulation with Price Stability? - February 1985: A.J. Culyer, University of York
The Withering of the Welfare State and Whither the Welfare State? - March 1983: Richard G. Lipsey, Queen’s University
The Great Anti-Inflation War, 1975-?: Part 1 and The Great Anti-Inflation War, 1975-?: Part 2