Twelfth Lecture

The Department of Economics

The Grunberg Lecture Series

The Twelveth Lecture - April 23, 1999:

Professor Robert W. Fogel Department of Economics University of Chicago Nobel Prize in Economics, 1993 "The Fourth Great Awakening and the Future of Egalitarianism?" Professor Fogel won a Nobel Prize for having renewed research in economic history by applying economic theory and quantiative methods in order to explain economic and institutional change. His foremost work concerns the role of the railways in the economic development of the United States, the importance of slavery as an institution and its economic role in the USA, and studies in historical demography.

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•      The First Lecture, 1988, Herbert A. Simon (Nobel 1978)
•      The Second Lecture, 1989, William Cooper (Von Neumann Medal 1982)
•      The Third Lecture, 1990, Franco Modigliani (Nobel 1985)
•      The Fourth Lecture, 1991, Richard Cyret
•      The Fifth Lecture, 1992, James Tobin (Nobel 1981)
•      The Sixth Lecture, 1993, Robert Solow (Nobel 1987)
•      The Seventh Lecture, 1994, Kenneth Arrow (Nobel 1972)
•      The Eighth Lecture, 1995, Lawrence Klein (Nobel 1980)
•      The Ninth Lecture, 1996, Harry M. Markowitz (Nobel 1990)
•      The Tenth Lecture, 1997, Douglas C. North (Nobel 1993)
•      The Eleventh Lecture, 1998, James a. Mirrlees (Nobel 1996)
•      The Thirteenth Lecture, 2000, Herbert A. Simon (Nobel 1977)
•      The Fourteenth Lecture, 2001, Joseph Stiglitz (Nobel 2001)
•      The Fifteenth Lecture, 2002, James A. Heckman (Nobel 2000)
•      The Sixthteenth Lecture, 2004, Vernon L. Smith (Nobel 2002)
•      The Seventeenth Lecture, 2006, Finn Kydland (Nobel 2004)
•      The Eighteenth Lecture, 2008, George Akerlof (Nobel 2001)