ANU Trevor Swan
Distinguished Lectures in Economics
ANU College of Business and Economics and Crawford School of Economics and Government, ANU College of Asia and the Pacific and ANU College of Arts and Social Sciences
present the public lecture series:
The Trevor Swan Distinguished Lectures in Economics.
Professor Trevor Swan was the foundation Professor of Economics at the ANU. Trevor Swan is often regarded as the greatest economist that Australia produced. Three Nobel prizes in economics have been awarded for work of which Swan himself was a pioneer – Solow’s, for his work on neoclassical growth models; Klein’s, for macroeconomic model-building and forecasting; and Meade’s, for integrating issues of internal and external balance.
Professor Swan’s standing internationally as an economist of the first rank was recognized in 1963 when he was invited to give Marshall Memorial Lectures at the University of Cambridge. He was Irving Fisher Visiting Professor at Yale, Visiting Professor at MIT, and Visiting Professor at the University of Southampton; in 1958-59 he led the MIT Economic Mission to India.
In his Inaugural Lecture on 23 May, Scientia Professor Peter Swan talked in great details about life of Trevor Swan and also presented The Market Structure Irrelevance Principle, & the Equity Premium Puzzle.
- Charting the course towards a Low Carbon Economy
Dr Martin Parkinson - Secretary, Department of Climate Change
Thursday 27 November, 4.30–6pm
Lecture Theatre, H.C. Coombs Building, 8A, Fellows Road, ANU
» view flyer [PDF 63KB]
» view powerpoint presentation [PDF 375KB]
» view speech [PDF 138KB]
» view photo gallery - The Evolution of Economic Policy on Climate Change
Richard Carson - Professor of Economics, University of California
Thursday 21 August 2008, 4:30-6pm
Lecture Theatre
Innovations Building 124, Eggleston Road, ANU
» view flyer [PDF 66KB]
» view powerpoint presentation [PDF 1882KB]
» view photo gallery - Globalisation & the Great Divergence
Jeffrey Williamson - Laird Bell Professor of Economics, Harvard University
Wednesday 23 April 2008, 4.30-6pm
Lecture Theatre
Innovations Building 124, Eggleston Road, ANU
» view flyer [PDF 63KB]
» view powerpoint presentation [PDF 692KB]
» view paper [PDF 239KB] - Incentives & the Welfare State
Sir James Mirrlees - Professor of Political Economy, Cambridge University
Thursday 13 March 2008, 4.30-6pm
Lecture Theatre
Innovations Building 124, Eggleston Road, ANU
» view flyer [PDF 59KB]
» view photo gallery
» view powerpoint presentation [PDF 53KB] - Do Increases in Resource Productivity Help the Environment?
Nicholas Hanley - Professor of Environmental Economics, University of Stirling
Thursday 3 April 2008, 4.30-6pm
Lecture Theatre
Innovations Building 124, Eggleston Road, ANU
» view flyer [PDF 63KB]
» view photo gallery
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