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
   

Munich Lectures in Economics

• Lecture 1 - Political Economy of State Building
• Lecture 2 - State Capacity and Economic Development
• Lecture 3 - The Perils of Top-Down State Building

NBER Lectures on Networks

• Lecture 1: Networks: Games over Networks and Peer Effects
• Lecture 2: Networks: Propagation of Shocks over Economic Networks

Nemmers Prize Lecture, Northwestern University

• State Building: A Political Economy Perspective

BBVA Lecture - Madrid, Spain

• Why Nations Fail

Zeuthen Lectures, University of Copenhagen

• Success and Failure of Nations: International Bottlenecks
• Success and Failure of Nations: Modeling Inefficient Institutions
• Persistence of Weak States
• The Rise and Decline of Oligarchic Regimes

Schwartz Lecture - Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University

• 2011 Schwartz Lecture

American Economic Association Annual Meeting - Denver, CO

• Thoughts on Inequality in Financial Crisis
   

World Bank/IMF Conference on Financial Regulation

• Risk and Regulation: Lessons from the Crisis of 2008

Marshall Lectures - University of Cambridge

• Lecture 1 - Persistence and Change in Institutions
• Lecture 2 - Dynamics and Stability of Political Systems
   

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