Ely Lectures

The department has funded The Richard Ely Distinguished Lecture Series since 1998. For a two-week period once a year, the department invites a highly distinguished scholar to provide a series of lectures on an important development in economics. The series is named in honor of Richard Ely, who was a professor of political economy at Hopkins from 1881 to 1892. Ely was the most widely known economist in the United States around the turn of the 20th century and was instrumental in the early development of the American Economic Association (AEA). He is honored each year with a Distinguished Lecture at the AEA Meetings and we honor him here – his first academic home – with the Ely Lecture Series.

Richard Ely Distinguished Lecturers

• 2011/12 – Hyun Song Shin (Princeton): “Banks, Financial Markets and the Macroeconomy”
• 2010/11 – Matthew Jackson (Stanford): “Economic and Social Networks”
• 2008/09 – Colin Camerer (Caltech): “Neuroeconomics”
• 2007/08 – Tim Besley (LSE): “The Economics of State Capacity”
• 2006/07 – Albert “Pete” Kyle (UMCP): “From Rational Expectations to Market Microstructure”
• 2005/06 – David Laibson (Harvard): “The Psychology and Economics of Dynamic Decisions”
• 2004/05 – James Heckman (Chicago): “Human Capital, Uncertainty, and the Estimation of Causal Effects”
• 2003/04 – Richard Blundell (IFS): “Understanding Consumer Behavior: Microeconometrics and Revealed Preference”
• 2002/03 – Philippe Mongin (CNRSP): “Impartiality, Utilitarian Ethics, and Collective Bayesianism”
• 2001/02 – Blake LeBaron (Brandeis): “Agent-Based Models of Financial Markets”
• 2000/01 – Ariel Pakes (Harvard): “Dynamic Analysis in Industrial Organization”
• 1999/00 – Adrian Pagan (ANU, UNSW): “The State of Empirical Work in Macroeconomics”
• 1998/99 – Ken Binmore (UCL): “Game Theory and the Social Contract”