2024-2025 academic year
- Sai Ma, Senior Economist, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System
Topic: “The Unseen Cost of Inflation: Measuring Inflation Uncertainty and its Economic Repercussion - Desiree Desierto, Assistant Professor of Economics, George Mason University
Topic: “Magna Carta” - Elinor Benami, Assistant Professor, Virginia Tech
Topic: “Drop a Line, Submit on Time? Randomized Tailored Reminders Improve Pollution Reporting Timeliness - Steven Medema, George Family Research Professor of Economics Associate Director; Center for the History of Political Economy Research Associate, School of Law, Duke University
Topic: “Why Do Economists Use Imaginary Worlds? What the Coase Theorem Tells Us About Pollution, Pollination, and Politics
2023-2024 academic year
- Syed Hussain, Assistant Professor of Economics, James Madison University
Topic: “New Shocks, Consumer Sentiment, and Business Cycles” - Chadwick Curtis, Associate Professor Economics, University of Richmond
Topic: “GDP and Temperature: Evidence on Cross-Country Response Heterogeneity” - Axel Anderson, Professor of Economics, Georgetown University
Topic: “Disequilibrium Play in Tennis” - Dan Caok, Associate Professor of Economics, Georgetown University
Topic: “Firm Growth Through New Establishments” - Leslie Stratton, Professor of Economics, Virginia Commonwealth University
Topic: “The effect of nonparental childcare on parental employment, care time and quality - Time diary evidence from Denmark, the UK and Korea" - Vincent Geloso, Assistant Professor of Economics, George Mason University
Topic:“Good, Bad, and Not-Too-Ugly: The Economics of Inequality and Income Mobility”
2020-2021 academic year
- Scott R. Milliman, James Madison University
Topic: “Racial Exclusion from the Antebellum North: An Analysis of Indiana’s 1851 Vote to Ban African-American Immigration” - Mario Rizzo, JIN Lecture in Political Economy, New York University
Topic: “Escaping Paternalism: Behavioral Economics and Public Policy” - J. Barkley Rosser, Jr., James Madison University
Topic: “Coupled Chaotic Systems and Extreme Ecologic-Economic Outcomes”
2019-2020 academic year
- Catherine C. Eckel, JIN Lecture in Political Economy, Texas A&M
Topic: “Gender Differences: What Have We Learned from 25 Years of Experimental Research?” - Barkley Rosser, Jr., James Madison University, Economics
Topic: “Entropy and Complexity in Urban and Regional Systems” - Benjamin W. Powell, JIN Lecture in Political Economy Texas Tech
Topic: “Socialism Sucks: Two Economists Drink Their Way Through the Unfree World” - William C. Wood, James Madison University, Economics
Topic: “The Economics and Personal Finance of Dave Ramsey” - Jason M. Barr, Rutgers – Newark
Topic: “The Simhattan Project: An Agent-Based Model of Housing Affordability” - Alan J. Levinovitz, James Madison University, Philosophy and Religion
Topic: “The Theology of Natural Markets: On the Meaning of Nature in Economic Theory” - Barkley Rosser, Jr., James Madison University
Topic: “Incompleteness and Complexity in Economic Theory” - Suresh Naidu, JIN Lecture in Political Economy, Columbia University
Topic: “Unions and Inequality in the 20th Century: Evidence from Survey Data” - Barry W. Ickes, Pennsylvania State University
Topic: “25 Years of Transition in Russia”