The Nancy L. Schwartz Memorial Lecture is a series of
public lectures held every year by the
Kellogg Department of Managerial Economics and Decision Sciences of Northwestern University.
Nancy Lou Schwartz
Nancy Lou Schwartz (1939–1981) was an American economist and professor who researched decision sciences and methods of dynamic optimization.
Life and career
Nancy L. Schwartz earned her AB at Oberlin College (Phi Beta Kappa) in 1960 and at ...
was the Morrison Professor of Decision Sciences. She was also the Kellogg School's first female faculty member appointed to an endowed chair. Schwartz became a part of Kellogg in 1970, chaired MEDS as well as served as director of the school's doctoral program until her death in 1981.
To date, sixteen out of the thirty-four speakers held or have gone on to win a
Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences.
Lectures
1983 - 1989
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Reinhard Selten (Nobel Laureate 1994). ''Evolution, Learning, and Economic Behavior''.
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Truman F. Bewley. ''Knightian Uncertainty''.
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Robert E. Lucas, Jr.,(Nobel Laureate 1995). ''On the Mechanics of Economic Development''.
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Robert J. Aumann
Robert John Aumann (Hebrew name: , Yisrael Aumann; born June 8, 1930) is an Israeli-American mathematician, and a member of the United States National Academy of Sciences. He is a professor at the Center for the Study of Rationality in the Hebrew ...
(Nobel Laureate 2005). ''Cooperation, Rationality, and Bounded Reality''.
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Menachem E. Yaari. ''On the Role of 'Dutch Books' in the Theory of Choice Under Risk''.
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Andreu Mas-Colell. ''On the Theory of Perfect Competition''.
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Hugo Sonnenschein. ''The Economics of Incentives: An Introductory Account''.
1990 - 1999
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Joseph E. Stiglitz. (Nobel Laureate 2001). ''The Theory of Bankruptcy in Modern Capitalism''.
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Ariel Rubinstein. ''Topics in Language and Economics''.
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David M. Kreps. ''Anticipated Utility and Dynamic Choice''.
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Nancy L. Stokey
Nancy Laura Stokey (born May 8, 1950) has been the Frederick Henry Prince Distinguished Service Professor of Economics at the University of Chicago since 1990 and focuses particularly on mathematical economics while recently conducting research a ...
. ''Shirtsleeves to Shirtsleeves: The Economics of Social Mobility''.
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Roy Radner. ''Economic Survival''.
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Robert B. Wilson
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Robert Butler Wilson, Jr. (born May 16, 1937) is an American economist and the Adams Distinguished Professor of Management, Emeritus at Stanford University. He was jointly awarded the 2020 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences, together wit ...
(Nobel Laureate 2020). ''Negotiation With Private Information: Litigation and Strikes''.
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Peter A. Diamond
Peter Arthur Diamond (born , 1940) is an American economist known for his analysis of U.S. Social Security policy and his work as an advisor to the Advisory Council on Social Security in the late 1980s and 1990s. He was awarded the Nobel Memoria ...
(Nobel Laureate 2010). ''Issues in Social Insurance''.
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Kenneth J. Arrow
Kenneth Joseph Arrow (23 August 1921 – 21 February 2017) was an American economist, mathematician, writer, and political theorist. He was the joint winner of the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences with John Hicks in 1972.
In economics ...
(Nobel Laureate 1972). ''Information and Returns to Scale''.
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Gary S. Becker (Nobel Laureate 1992). ''On Habits, Addictions, and Traditions''.
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Vernon L. Smith
Vernon Lomax Smith (born January 1, 1927) is an American economist and professor of business economics and law at Chapman University. He was formerly a professor of economics at the University of Arizona, professor of economics and law at Georg ...
(Nobel Laureate 2002). ''Experimental Economics: Behavioral Lessons for Theory and Microeconomic Policy''.
2000 - 2009
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Drew Fudenberg
Drew Fudenberg (born March 2, 1957) is a Professor of Economics at MIT. His extensive research spans many aspects of game theory, including equilibrium theory, learning in games, evolutionary game theory, and many applications to other fields. ...
. ''Learning in Games''.
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Roger B. Myerson
Roger Bruce Myerson (born March 29, 1951) is an American economist and professor at the University of Chicago. He holds the title of the David L. Pearson Distinguished Service Professor of Global Conflict Studies at The Pearson Institute for the ...
(Nobel Laureate 2007). ''On the Foundations of Social Institutions''.
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Matthew Jackson. ''Social Structure, Segregation, and Economic Behavior''.
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Robert C. Merton. (Nobel Laureate 1997). ''How to Pursue Both Comparative Advantage and Efficient Diversification of Risk: An Application of Derivative Securities''.
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John O. Ledyard
John is a common English name and surname:
* John (given name)
* John (surname)
John may also refer to:
New Testament
Works
* Gospel of John, a title often shortened to John
* First Epistle of John, often shortened to 1 John
* Second E ...
. ''Information Markets''.
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Daniel Kahneman
Daniel Kahneman (; he, דניאל כהנמן; born March 5, 1934) is an Israeli-American psychologist and economist notable for his work on the psychology of judgment and decision-making, as well as behavioral economics, for which he was award ...
(Nobel Laureate 2002). ''Psychology and Behavioral Economics''.
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Bengt R. Holmstrom (Nobel Laureate 2016). ''Corporate Governance''.
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Eric R. Maskin (Nobel Laureate 2007). ''How to Reduce Greenhouse Gas Emissions: An Application of Auction Theory.
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David Baron. ''Private Politics.''
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Oliver Hart (Nobel Laureate 2016). ''Financial Contracting''.
2010 - 2019
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Vincent P. Crawford
Vincent P. Crawford (born 1950) is an American economist. He is a senior research fellow at the University of Oxford, following his tenure as Drummond Professor of Political Economy from 2010 to 2020. He is also research professor at the Univ ...
. ''Puffery, Trickery, Rendezvous, and Reassurance: Nonequilibrium Models of Strategic Communication''.
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Paul Milgrom (Nobel Laureate 2020). ''Prices and Auctions in Markets with Complex Constraints''.
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Ehud Kalai. ''Chaos, Learning and Stability in Big Games''.
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Colin Camerer. ''When Game Theory Predicts Surprisingly Well, and Why''.
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Hal Varian. ''Predicting the Present with Search Engine Data''.
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Jean Tirole (Nobel Laureate 2014). ''Laws and Norms''.
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K. Daron Acemoglu. ''Why Nations Fail''.
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Al Roth (Nobel Laureate 2012). ''Market Design''.
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Susan Athey
Susan Carleton Athey (born ) is an American economist. She is the Economics of Technology Professor in the School of Humanities and Sciences at the Stanford Graduate School of Business. Prior to joining Stanford, she has been a professor at Harva ...
. ''Marketplaces, Intermediaries, and Product Quality''.
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Stephen Morris. ''Taking Incomplete Information Seriously: The Misunderstanding of John Harsanyi''.
2020-present
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Avinash Dixit. ''Community-Based Organizations to Combat Corruption''.
(postponed)
References
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