Past Events
2017 SPRING EVENTS
Friday, April 21, 2017
Student Spring Symposium
McCardell Bicentennial Hall (MBH)
All day event
************
Saturday, April 29, 2017
D. K. Smith Symposium
Robert A. Jones House, 2nd floor
All day event
************
Tuesday, May 9, 2017
Student Spring thesis poster presentations
McCardell Bicentennial hall (Great Hall)
3:30-5:30 PM
************
Events 2014
Wednesday, September 17, 2014
New faculty Reception
51 Main
4-6 PM
*************
Wednesday, September 24, 2014
D.K. Smith lecture
William Rodgers, Rutgers University
Title: Will the economic boom of the 1990s, known as the "Roaring 1990s", ever return?
Twilight Auditorium
4:30 PM
*************
Thursday, October 9, 2014
Steve Fazzari, Washington University, St. Louis
Title: Income Inequality, the Great Recession and Slow Recovery
Axinn Center 229
4:30 PM
*************
Wednesday, October 22, 2014
Richard Katz, Editor of Oriental Economist and author of, "Japan the System that soured and Japanese Phoenix"
Title: Voodo Abenomics: An Update
Axinn center 229
4:30 PM
*************
Spring 2015 Events
Thursday, April 2, 2015
Ed Lincoln, George Washington University
Title: Shrinking Japan: Facing the Implications of a falling and aging population
Axinn center 219
4:30 PM
************
Wednesday, April 15, 2015
Sophomore Economics Dinner
Atwater Dining Hall
5:15-7 PM
************
Friday, April 24 to Sunday, April 26, 2015
Alliance for the Advancement of Liberal Arts Colleges Conference
Title: The Economic History of Race, Gender and Class
Keynote Speakers: Peter Lindert, UC Davis and Robert Margo, Boston University
Axinn Center 219
From Friday at 7 PM to Sunday 12 Noon
************
Friday, May 8, 2015
Title: Student Spring Theses Poster sessions
MBH Great Hall
Time: 3-5 PM
************
Events 2013
September 24, 2013
David K. Smith Lecture
Harriet Duleep, Research professor, College of William and Mary
Title: "The New Immigrants-Blessing or Bane?"
Twilight Auditorium
4:30 PM
*************
September 30, 2013
Christian A. Johnson lecture
Ariel Rubinstein, NYU and Tel Aviv University
Title: "Economic Fables"
Environmental Center at Hilcrest, HLD 103 (Orchard room)
12:15 PM
**************
October 1, 2013
Christian A. Johnson lecture
John Siegfried, Vanderbilt University
Title: "Better Living through Economics"
Axinn 229
4:30 PM
*************
October 8, 2013
Christian A. Johnson lecture
Jon Robinson, UC Santa Cruz.
Title: "Investigating barriers to agricultural technology diffusion in Western Kenya: Evidence from randomized controlled trials"
Axinn 229
4:30 PM
*************
October 11, 2013
Christian A. Johnson Symposium
Panelists: Richard Hornik, Stony Brook University
Tom Hout, Richard Margolis, Senior China Adviser, Holdingham Group
and David Colander, Middlebury College
Title: "Is China Going to Take over the World Economy?"
Robert A. Jones Hall, 2nd floor
4:30 PM
************
October 15, 2013
Christian A. Johnson lecture
Jerry Green, Harvard University
Title: "Graduate Education in Economics and the History of Economic Thought"
Axinn 229
4:30 PM
************
October 17, 2013
Christian A. Johnson lecture
Alain Bertaud, Stern Business School, NYU
Title: "Changing land use patterns in Chinese Cities"
Robert A. Jones Hall, 2nd floor
4:30 PM
************
November 8, 2013
Christian A. Johnson film screening and discussion,
Jim Bruce, Producer and director of documentary "Money for Nothing: Inside the Federal Reserve"
Peter Fisher, Tuck School of Business (former head of Black Rock Inc.)
Axinn 232
7:30 PM
************
January 21, 2014
Christian A. Johnson seminar
Greg Kisunko, World Bank, Washington D.C.
Seminar on Post Communist Economic transition in Russia in Will Pyle's ECON 430A
LIB 230
1:30-2:45 PM
************
Thursday, March 6, 2014
Title: "Where is the Engine of Growth: Europe, America or Asia?"
Jan Svejnar,
Robert A. Jones Conference Room, 2nd floor
4:30 PM
************
Thursday, April 24, 2014
Christian A. Johnson lecture
Title: Drugs and Sex: " Antiretroviral drug Access and Unprotected Sex"
Willa Friedman, Center for Global Development
Axinn Center 219
4:30 PM
********************************************************
Events 2012
October 4, 2012
David K. Smith Lecture
David G. Blanchflower, Bruce V. Rauner Professor of Economics, Dartmouth College
“The Effect of Recent Global Recession on Youth Unemployment”
Twilight Auditorium
4:30 PM
***********************
October 24, 2012
Christian A. Johnson Lecture
"Economic Religion versus Environmental Religion"
Robert Nelson, University of Maryland, School of Public Policy
Author, Economic Religion versus Environmental Religion
Axinn Center 219
4:30 PM
***********************
October 25, 2012
Christian A. Johnson Symposium
Robert Aliber, University of Chicago (Emeritus)
Peter Montiel, Williams college
Paul Wonnacott, Middlebury College (Emeritus)
Title: "Why are there Waves of Financial Crises?"
Robert A. Jones Conference Room
4:30 PM
************************
November 14, 2012
Christian A. Johnson Lecture
Katharina Pistor, Michael I. Sovern Professor of Law, Columbia Law School, Director, Center on Global Legal Transformation
Title: "The Legal Construction of Financial Markets"
Robert A. Jones Conference Room
4:30 PM
************************
November 15, 2012
Christian A. Johnson Lecture
David Warsh (Author, Economic Principals)
Title: "The one Book your Principles professor doesn't want you to know about"
Warner Hemicycle
4:30 PM
*************************
January 21, 2013
Co-sponsored CAJ event
Craig Freedman, Senior visiting scholar at University of New South Wales, editor of the Journal of East Asian Economies, and author of many books on both Japanese economics as well as Economic theory.
Title: Embracing Success: Japan Learns to Forget the War and Look to the Future
Monday, 1/21/2013
Axinn 103
4:30 PM
*************************
April 8, 2013
Co-sponsored CAJ event
Milford Bateman, Juraj Dobrila University of Pula, Croatia
Title: Seduced and Betrayed: The Rise and Fall of Microfinance as Development Policy
Tuesday, 4/16/2013
Axinn Center 229
4:30 PM
*******************************************************
Events 2011
September 26, 2011
Christian A. Johnson Economics Lecture
"Can Game Theory Provide a Mathematical foundation for the Social Sciences?"
William Ferguson, Grinnell College
Axinn Center 219
4:30 PM
September 30, 2011
Christian A. Johnson Lecture
"How the Humanities can Inform the Social Sciences"
Deirdre N. McCloskey, University of Illinois, at Chicago
Robert A. Jones Conference Room
4:30 PM
October 1, 2011
Christian A. Johnson Economics Symposium
A panel discussion on the Chicago Economics Tradition with students and faculty.
Deirdre N. McCloskey, University of Illinois at Chicago
Craig Freedman, Middlebury College
David Levy, George Mason University and
David Colander, Middlebury College
Robert A. Jones conference Room
2-4 PM
October 4, 2011
Christian A. Johnson Economics Lecture
“What Environmentalists Should Know about Economics.”
Jason Scorse, associate professor and chair of the International Environmental Policy Program at the Monterey Institute of International Studies.
HLD 103
4:30 PM
October 11, 2011
Christian A. Johnson Economics Lecture
"Migration to Latin America after WW ll"
Marina Maccari, University of Tennessee
Munroe 314
1:30 PM
October 12, 2011
Christian A. Johnson Economics Lecture
"Financial Regulation and the Regulatory Dialectic"
Edward Kane, Boston College
Axinn Center 229
4:30 PM
October 20, 2011
Christian A. Johnson Economics Lecture
"More than a decade of Foreign owned Banking in Transition Economies"
John Bonin, professor, Wesleyan university
Robert A. Jones Conference Room
12:15-1:15 PM
October 28, 2011
Christian A. Johnson Economics Lecture
"Can Philosophy Integrate the Social Sciences?"
Mark Risjord, Professor, Emory University
Robert A. Jones Conference Room
4:30 PM
11/4/11
Christian A. Johnson Economics Lecture
“Federal Reserve Policy Since the Financial Crisis”
Dan Sichel, Senior Associate Director
Division of Research and Statistics, Wellesley College and the Federal Reserve Bank
Axinn Center 219
4:30 PM
11/18/11
Christian A. Johnson Economics Lecture
“How the Fed Forecasts the Economy”
Neil Ericcson, Senior Economist Trade and Financial Studies Section Division of International Finance, Federal Reserve Bank
Axinn Center 219
4:30 PM
11/29/11
Christian A. Johnson Economics Lecture
“Uncertainty, Modeling Monocultures and the Financial Crisis”
Richard Bronk, London School of Economics (Author of The Romantic Economist)
Axinn Center 229
4:30 PM
March 6, 2012
Christian A. Johnson lecture
"Education Policy and Development in Kenya"
Adrienne Lucas, University of Delaware
Axinn Center 229
4:30 PM
March 7, 2012
Christian A. Johnson lecture
"Gridlocked Japan: What lessons Can We learn?"
Richard Katz, Editor-in-Chief of the Oriental Economist
Axinn Center 219
4:30 PM
April 5, 2012
D.K.Smith lecture
"What? You Don't Take College Sports Seriously?"
Charles T. Clotfelter, Duke University
Twilight Auditorium
4:30 PM
April 9, 2012
Christian A. Johnson lecture
"The Possibility of a Financial Crisis in China"
Satya Gabriel, Mt. Holyoke College
Axinn Center 229
4:30 PM
April 24, 2012
Christian A. Johnson lecture
"First Years Matter: the surprisingly lasting Effects of Health in Early Childhood...Results from Development economics"
Owen Ozier, World Bank Research Development Group
Axinn Center 229
4:30 PM
April 25, 2012
Christian A. Johnson lecture
"Putin's Protection Racket"
Clifford Gaddy, Brookings Institution, Senior Fellow, Foreign Policy
Robert A. Jones Conference Room
4:30 PM
If you have questions or comments, please contact Vijaya Wunnava, Events Coordinator at vwunnava@middlebury.edu