For over 30 years the economics seminar series at James Madison University's College of Business has provided students the opportunity to see and interact with cutting-edge economists who represent a wide variety of views and perspectives speaking on a wide variety of topics. These speakers come from academia, think tanks, government and industry, and have included several Nobel Prize winners in economics over the years, including George Akerlof, Eric Maskin, Thomas Schelling, Vernon Smith and Oliver Williamson.
You can view an image gallery of some of our past speakers, below:
Suresh Naidu - Unions and Inequality in the 20th Century: Evidence from Survey Data
Barkley Rosser - “Incompleteness and Complexity in Economic Theory” - January 27, 2020
Alan Levinovitz - “The Theology of Natural Markets: On the Meaning of Nature in Economic Theory” - November 19, 2019
Jason Barr - “The Simhattan Project: An Agent-Based Model of Housing Affordability” - November 6, 2019
William C. Wood - “The Economics and Personal Finance of Dave Ramsey” - October 28, 2019
Economic Speaker Series - April 3, 2018 - Kenneth Elzinga
Economic Speaker Series - April 17, 2018 - Rajiv Sethi
Economic Speaker Series - February 28, 2018 - Barkley Rosser
Economic Speaker Series - January 17, 2018 - Paul Auerbach
Economic Speaker Series - November 29 2017 - Vipul Bhatt
Economic Speaker Series - November 8, 2017 - John Whitehead
Economic Speaker Series - October 26, 2017 - Anders Aslund
Economic Speaker Series - Timothy Smeeding - October 16, 2016
Economic Speaker Series - October 04, 2016 - Mona Salemi
Economic Speaker Series - October 27, 2016 - Richard Easterlin
Economic Speaker Series - October 26, 2016 - Stephanie Kelton
Economic Speaker Series - Fall 2016 - Zachary Gochenour
