Selected Presentations
Gorman Lectures, UCL
Lecture 1 - Tasks, Automation and the Labor Market
Lecture 2 - New Tasks, Good Automation and Bad Automation: Implications for the Future of Work
October 12-13, 2020
Munich Lectures in Economics
Lecture 1 - Political Economy of State Building (based on joint research with James Robinson)
Lecture 2 - State Capacity and Economic Development
Lecture 3 - The Perils of Top-down State Building
November 17-19, 2015
NBER Lectures on Networks
Lecture 1: Networks: Games over Networks and Peer Effects
Lecture 2: Networks: Propagation of Shocks over Economic Networks
July 22, 2014
Nemmers Prize Lecture, Northwestern University
State Building: A Political Economy Perspective
May 14, 2013
FBBVA Lecture - Madrid, Spain
Why Nations Fail
May 21, 2012
Zeuthen Lectures - University of Copenhagen
Sucess and Failure of Nations: International Bottlenecks
Sucess and Failure of Nations: Modeling Inefficient Institutions
Persistence of Weak States
The Rise and Decline of Oligarchic Regimes
May 22-24, 2012
Schwartz Lecture - Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University
2011 Schwartz Lecture
April 2011
American Economic Association Annual Meeting - Denver, CO
Thoughts on Inequality in Financial Crisis
January 2011
World Bank/IMF Conference on Financial Regulation
Risk and Regulation: Lessons from the Crisis of 2008
May 2009
Marshall Lectures - University of Cambridge
Lecture 1 - Persistence and Change in Institutions
Lecture 2 - Dynamics and Stability of Political Systems
February 2009
Clarendon Lectures - Oxford University
Lecture 1 - Directed Technical Change: Importance, Issues and Approaches
Lecture 2 - Implications of Directed Technical Change, Cross-Country Income Differences and Economic Divergence
Lecture 3 - General Theory of Directed Technical Change
October 22-24, 2007
IMF Training Seminar Lectures - Washington, DC
Lecture 1 - Political Economy of Growth: Towards a Framework
Lecture 2 - Political Economy of Growth: Modeling Barriers to Economic Growth
Lecture 3 - Political Economy of Growth: Understanding Political Dynamics
February 2007
Pareto Lecture - Collegio Carlo Alberto
Political Economy of Growth
June 12, 2007
Boston Club Meeting
Law, Politics and the Wealth of Nations - Lessons from History
March, 2006
World Bank Presentation
Growth Theory Since Solow and the Poverty of Nations
April 26, 2006
Gaston Eyskens Lectures - Leuven, Belgium
Lecture 1 - Political Economy of Development and Underdevelopment
Lecture 2 - Blocking Development
Lecture 3 - Democracy vs Oligarchy
Lecture 4 - Emergence and Consolidation of Democracy
October 2005
Turkish American Scientists and Scholars Association - Washington, DC
Understanding Productivity Differences
February, 2005
Lionel Robbins Lectures - London School of Economics
Understanding Institutions
(based on joint work with Simon Johnson and James Robinson)
January 2005
CEPR-BREAD Conference - Istanbul, Turkey
Thinking about the Rise and Decline of Nations
June 2005
Society of Economic Dynamics Lecture
Labor-Augmenting and Skill-Biased Technical Change
(based in part on joint work with Veronica Guerrieri)
July, 2004
Lionell Robbins Lectures
February 23, 2004
Rethinking the Wealth of Nations
(based on joint work with Simon Johnson and James Robinson)
AstraZeneca and StoraEnso Lecture - Stockholm, Sweden
December 11, 2003
Human Capital and the Nature of Technological Progress