Economics
David Goldberg (2009-2010)
Oct 30, 2009
“Enduring Occupations on Racial Neoliberalism” David Theo Goldberg is the Director of the University of California Humanities Research Institute. He is also Distinguished Professor of Comparative Literature and Anthropology at the University of California, Irvine. As a [...]
Eric L. Jones (2005-2006)
Jan 20, 2006
“Asian Values and the Self-Transformation of East Asia” Eric L. Jones is Professorial Fellow at Melbourne Business School, University of Melbourne, Emeritus Professor at La Trobe University, and Visiting Professor at Exeter University. He received his doctorate in economic [...]
Naomi Klein (2004-2005)
Oct 20, 2004
“War and Fleece: How Economic ‘Shock Therapy’ Backfired in Iraq” Naomi Klein is an award-winning author, a senior correspondent at The Intercept, and the inaugural Gloria Steinem Endowed Chair in Media, Culture and Feminist Studies at Rutgers University. She is a syndicated [...]
Martha Nussbaum (2000-2001)
Jan 20, 2001
“In Search of Universal Values” Martha Nussbaum is a renowned legal academic known for her work on Ancient Greek and Roman philosophy, feminist philosophy, political philosophy, and philosophy and the arts. She was trained as a classicist at Harvard University and is an [...]
Linda McQuaig (1998-1999)
Apr 08, 1999
“Reviving Democracy” Linda McQuaig is an activist, journalist, and author described by the National Post as “Canada’s Michael Moore.” She is the author of numerous books that challenge free-market economic ideology and call for a more egalitarian distribution of wealth [...]
John Ralston Saul (1996-1997)
Oct 09, 1996
“Between Corporatism and Democracy: Surviving as a Citizen in Modern Society” John Ralston Saul is an award-winning Canadian essayist, humanist, and author of the best-selling book, Voltaire’s Bastards: The Dictatorship of Reason in the West (1992), which examines Western [...]
Amartya K. Sen (1981-1982)
Oct 07, 1981
“Paradoxes of Liberty” Amartya K. Sen is an Indian economist and philosopher and the current Thomas W. Lamont University Professor and Professor of Economics and Philosophy at Harvard University. He has also taught at Cambridge, Oxford, Jadavpur University Calcutta, the [...]
Eric Kierans and Keith Davey (1975-1976)
Jan 30, 1976
“The Canadian Economy” Eric Kierans was a Canadian economist, politician, and businessman. After graduating from Loyola College and McGill University, he was director of McGill’s School of Commerce from 1953-1960, president of the Montreal Stock Exchange from 1960-1963, and [...]
Joan V. Robinson (1973-1974)
Nov 25, 1974
“The Mythology of Growth” Joan V. Robinson was a distinguished economist from the University of Cambridge and a central figure of post-Keynesian economics. She was the author of The Economics of Imperfect Competition, which challenged the belief that industries are [...]
Theodore W. Schultz (1966-1967)
Mar 27, 1967
Theodore Schultz was professor of economics at University of Chicago. He won the 1979 Nobel Prize for economics for his “analysis of the role of investment in human capital for economic development, particularly in agriculture.” Schultz studied agriculture and economics at [...]
A.E. Safarian (1966-1967)
Mar 01, 1967
“Approaches to Foreign Ownership” Dr. A.E. Safarian was professor of economics at the University of Toronto. After graduating with a degree in political economy from the University of Toronto, he worked on compiling and analyzing data on Canada’s international transactions [...]