2015 Speaker Series
Department of Economics Lecture Series Fall 2015:
The Causes and Consequences of Economic Inequality, Visiting Speakers, and CAKE
Upcoming Lectures
“The Role of Water Rights at Conserving the High Plains Aquifer"
Dietrich Earnhart, University of Kansas
Friday, December 4 | 1:00 PM
Location: JJR Library (OSH 336)
"Why Organizations Fail: Models and Cases"
Luis Rayo, University of Utah Dept of Finance and CEPR
Thursday, December 10 | 3:30 PM
Location: JJR Library (OSH 336)
Past Lectures
"Recent Trends in Global Income Inequality and their Political Implications"
Branko Milanovic, CUNY Graduate Center and Luxembourg Income Study
Thursday October 1, 2015 | 4 pm
Rasmussen Library (OSH 336)
"Child Labor and Changes in the Minimum Wage: Evidence from India"
Yana van der Meulen Rodgers, Rutgers University
Friday, October 23, 2015 | 1:30 pm
Rasmussen Library (OSH 336)
"Separating the wheat from the chaff, using meta-regression to improve minimum wage
employment effects"
Dale Belman, Michigan State University
Friday, November 6, 2015 | 1:30 pm
Location: Rasmussen Library (OSH 336)
"Hidden Information, Status, and Trade"
Subhasish Dugar, University of Calgary (co-author Haimanti Bhattacharya, Univerity
of Utah)
Tuesday, November 10 | 3:30 PM
Location: JJR Library (OSH 336)
CAKE: "Towards a More Sustainable and Just World: Welfare & Resource Extraction in
Sub-Saharan Africa"
Duygu Orhan, University of Utah Dept of Economics
Friday, November 13 | 1:00 PM
Location: JJR Library (OSH 336)
POSTPONED UNTIL SPRING CAKE: "Government's Redistributive Role in Determining the
Labor Share"
Ahmad Borazan, University of Utah Dept of Economics
Thursday, November 19 | 3:30 PM
Location: JJR Library (OSH 336)
CAKE: "Lucas paradox – is South-South FDI different?"
Zain Siddiqui, University of Utah Dept of Economics
Friday, November 20 | 1:00 PM
Location: JJR Library (OSH 336)
"Can the US Reduce Poverty and Inequality without a Stronger Safety Net?"
Sheldon Danziger, Russell Sage Foundation
"Can the US Reduce Inequality and Poverty without Strong Labor Organizations?"
Richard Freeman, Harvard University
Monday, November 30 | 3:30 PM
Location: USTAR Auditorium, SMBB 2650