In the 31st Annual Kuznets Lecture, former Yale professor Leonard Wantchekon explored the political mechanisms behind developmental economics. The lecture, hosted by the Yale Economic Growth Center, ...

The BMO Public Lecture series is an annual event that is hosted by SFU's Department of Economics in partnership with SFU Public Square and the generous sponsorship of BMO Bank of Montreal. Lectures ...

Child health is increasingly understood to be a critical form of human capital. Research has demonstrated both how valuable it is and how better to support its development. This lecture provides an ...

Mr Bowen on Monday released new analysis which showed replacing coal fired plants with nuclear energy could cost the country $387 billion. The analysis sparked a fiery debate as Labor continues to ...

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — Nobel laureate Lars Peter Hansen, a leading expert at the forefront of economic thinking and asset-price modeling, will join Purdue University President Mung Chiang this month ...

Elliott Harris, former chief economist for the United Nations, is pictured. The former chief economist and leading economic development official for the United Nations will be at the University of ...

Most of the literature on trade and labour predicts that price booms of labour-intensive exports boost employment and wages in exporting countries. By contrast, Domar (1970) and Acemoglu and Wolitzky ...

On 14 October the School of Economics and Finance hosted the 2021 Peston Lecture which was held for the first time in its history, online, enabling the school to welcome attendees from all around the ...

Professor Paul Mosley gave the Sir Arthur Lewis Memorial Lecture at the Nobel Laureate Festival 2019 in St. Lucia on Thursday 24 January 2019, to celebrate the work of Sir Arthur Lewis, the winner of ...

Vernon L. Smith is Regents Professor of Economics and research director of the Economic Science Laboratory at the University of Arizona. He is author of more than 100 articles and books on capital ...