Lionel W. McKenzie Lecture Series

The 2024 Mckenzie Lecture will be given by Richard Blundell from University College London on Wednesday, April 24, 2024. More details to be announced.

About the Lecture Series

Starting in the Spring of 1986, graduate students have chosen an outstanding scholar to visit for a day, giving a lecture and talking with graduate students. This series honors Lionel McKenzie for his outstanding contribution to the field of economics and for his life-long commitment to the 91×ÔÅÄÂÛ̳ PhD program.

The Department provides the Graduate Student Council with the funds necessary to pay for travel and an honorarium. The students usually arrange a "pot-luck" dinner for the speaker, which provides an ideal setting for informal discussions between students and the speaker.

The McKenzie Lecture Series is partially supported by the Tapan Mitra Endowment, and recognizes Professor McKenzie's supervision of Dr. Mitra's PhD thesis when Dr. Mitra was a graduate student in Economics at the 91×ÔÅÄÂÛ̳.

Past Participants

Some of the most influential contemporary economists have participated in this series:

  • Jeremy Greenwood (2023) The Downward Spiral
  • David Autor (2022) The Work of the Future: Where Will it Come From?
  • (2019) How to Count Citations If You Must
  • (2018) Small Area Variations and Physician Decision Making: The Case of Depression
  • (2017) Discovering Prices: Auctions for Markets with Complex Constraints
  • (2016) Labor Supply in the Past, Present, and Future: A Balanced-Growth Perspective
  • (2015) Macroprudential Financial Regulation: Theories New and Old
  • (2014) Premuneration Values, Investments, and Pricing in Matching Markets
  • (2013) Market Design
  • (2012) Explaining Charter School Effectiveness
  • (2011) Network Patterns of Favor Exchange
  • (2010) Financial Intermediation and Credit Policy in Business Cycle Analysis
  • (2009) Immigration and Inequality
  • (2008) Institutional Persistence: Is There an Iron Law of Oligarchy?
  • (2007) Choice, Rationality and Welfare Measurement
  • (2006) The Economics of the Jungle: Comments on the Way We Teach Economics
  • (2005) New Ideas about the Causes and Magnitudes of Recessions
  • (2004) Kidney Exchange
  • (2003) Firm versus Contracts
  • (2002) Religion and Economics
  • (2001) Auctions and Efficiency
  • (2000) Robustness in Macroeconomics
  • (1999) Global Financial Crises
  • (1998)
  • (1997) Globalisation and Globaloney
  • (1996) Bounded Rationality and Transaction Cost Economics
  • (1995) The Extended Preference Approach to Human Behavior
  • (1994) Economic Growth, Population Theory, and Physiology: The Bearing of Long-Term Processes on the Making of Economic Policy
  • (1993) "As If" Reasoning in Games Theory and Economics
  • (1992)
  • (1991) A Theoretical View...
  • (1990) The Uses and Limitations of Extensive Form Game Theory
  • (1989) Rational Addiction
  • (1988) Gross Substitutability in Large-Square Economies
  • (1987) On the Mechanics of Economic Development
  • (1986) Dynamic Coalitions, Firm Size, and Growth