Richard Ely Distinguished Lecture Series 2007-2008
Professor Tim Besley
London School of Economics and Political Science
Timothy Besley is Kuwait Professor of Economics and Political Science at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) where he is also Director of the Suntory Toyota International Centres for Economics and Related Disciplines (STICERD). In September 2006, Professor Besley was appointed to be an external member of the Bank of England Monetary Policy Committee. He also serves as a research Fellow at the CEPR and the IFS, and is a member of the Institutions, Organizations and Growth Program of the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research. Professor Besley was educated at Aylesbury Grammar School and Oxford University where he became a prize fellow of All Souls College. He taught subsequently at Princeton before being appointed Professor at the LSE in 1995. He is a Fellow of the Econometric Society, of the British Academy, and the European Economics Association. He is also a foreign honorary member of the American Economic Association and is president-elect of the European Economics Association. Professor Besley is a past co-editor of the American Economic Review, and the 2005 winner of the Yrjö Jahnsson Award of the European Economics Association granted every other year to an economist aged under 45 who has made a significant contribution to economics in Europe. His research, which mostly has a policy focus, is mainly in the areas of Development Economics, Public Economics and Political Economy.
Lecture 1: Monday, April 14, 2008.
Title: “Dynamics of state formation – fiscal and legal capacity”
Place: Rm. B-17, Computational Science and Engineering Building, Homewood
Time: 3:30-5:00pm
Lecture 2: Tuesday, April 15, 2008.
Title: “Strong states and weak states”
Place: Rm. 210, Hodson, Homewood
Time: 3:30-5:00pm
Lecture 3: Thursday, April 17, 2008
Title: “Some current issues in U.K. monetary policy”
Place: Rm. 101, Remsen, Homewood
Time: 3:30-5:00pm