Public Lecture by Jeffrey Williamson
Public Lecture by Jeffrey Williamson
09 juli 2015
On September 14 Professor Jeffrey Williamson from Harvard University will be our next guest lecturer in the Maddison Lecture Series in Economic History and Development. The topic of this lecture will be: "Growth and Inequality in America: From Colony to Superpower".
Jeffrey Williamson is the Laird Bell Professor of Economics at Harvard University emeritus, Honorary Fellow in the Department of Economics at the University of Wisconsin (Madison), Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research, and Research Fellow for the Center for Economic
Policy Research.
Having retired from Harvard in July 2008, Professor Williamson continues to do research on economic history and the contemporary Third World. Some topics he has explored recently include: the growth and distributional implications of the demographic transition in Asia 1950-2025 and the
Atlantic economy 1820-1940; the impact of international migration, capital flows and trade on factor price convergence in the greater Atlantic economy since 1830; the sources of globalization backlash before World War I; the causes of the cessation of convergence during the de-globalization
years between 1914 and 1950; analysis of both the sources and consequences of the mass migrations prior to the 1920s and after the 1950s; and the economic implications of 1492.
His four current research topics are: the evolution of world factor prices and living standards since 1790, involving the collection and analysis of data covering the OECD, eastern Europe, the Mediterranean Basin, Latin America, and Asia; the documentation and explanation of long run
inequality trends over two milennia the world round; the exploration of economic change in the Third World since 1750, including debates over terms of trade, tariff policy, factor supply, de-industrialization, re-industrializaton, South-South mass migration, and the underlying
economic-demographic fundamentals of growth; and the use of social tables to document the growth and distribution of American incomes since 1650.
The event takes place between 15:30 and 17:15 on Monday 14 September in the Donald Smitszaal (5431.0053), Smitsborg.