2016 Economica-Phillips Lecture
Understanding the Stagnation of Modern Economics, by Robert Hall
Thursday 28 April 2016, 6:30-8:00 pm
Old Theatre, Old Building
The annual Phillips Lecture, jointly sponsored by the journal Economica and the Department of Economics, in which Professor Hall, one of the world's leading macroeconomists will speak on the macroeconomics of persistent slumps.
The annual Phillips Lecture, jointly sponsored by the journal Economica and the Department of Economics, in which Professor Hall, one of the world's leading macroeconomists will speak on the macroeconomics of persistent slumps.
Robert Hall is an American economist and a Robert and Carole McNeil Senior Fellow at Hoover Institution and Professor of Economics at Standford University. He is generally considered a macroeconomist, but he describes himself as an "applied economist".
Bob Hall received a BA in Economics at the University of California, Berkeley and a PhD in Economics from MIT for thesis titled Essays on the Theory of Wealth under the supervision of Robert Solow. He is a member of the Hoover Institution, the National Academy of Sciences, a fellow at both American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the Econometric Society, and a member of the NBER, where he is the program director of the business cycle dating committee. Hall served as President of the American Economic Association in 2010.
Francesco Caselli (chair) is the Norman Sosnow Chair in Economics at the Department of Economics at LSE.
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Info: Event free and open to all with no ticket or registration required - further information from LSE Events.
Recordings: Video recording on YouTube, Recordings and slides on LSE Media page