The Nancy L. Schwartz Memorial Lecture is a series of

public lecture A public lecture (also known as an open lecture) is one means employed for educating the public. Gresham College, in London, has been providing free public lectures since its founding in 1597 through the will of Sir Thomas Gresham. The Royal S ...

s held every year by the Kellogg Department of Managerial Economics and Decision Sciences of Northwestern University. Nancy Lou Schwartz was the Morrison Professor of Decision Sciences. She was also the Kellogg School's first female faculty member appointed to an endowed chair. Schwartz became a part of Kellogg in 1970, chaired MEDS as well as served as director of the school's doctoral program until her death in 1981. To date, sixteen out of the thirty-four speakers held or have gone on to win a

Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences The Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences, officially the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel (), commonly referred to as the Nobel Prize in Economics(), is an award in the field of economic sciences adminis ...

Lectures

1983 - 1989

Reinhard Selten Reinhard Justus Reginald Selten (; 5 October 1930 – 23 August 2016) was a German economics, economist, who won the 1994 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences (shared with John Harsanyi and John Forbes Nash, John Nash). He is also well ...

(Nobel Laureate 1994). ''Evolution, Learning, and Economic Behavior''. * Truman F. Bewley. ''Knightian Uncertainty''. * Robert E. Lucas, Jr.,(Nobel Laureate 1995). ''On the Mechanics of Economic Development''. *

Robert J. Aumann Robert John Aumann (Yisrael Aumann, ; born June 8, 1930) is an Israeli-American mathematician, and a member of the United States National Academy of Sciences. He is a professor at the Center for the Study of Rationality in the Hebrew University o ...

(Nobel Laureate 2005). ''Cooperation, Rationality, and Bounded Reality''. * Menachem E. Yaari. ''On the Role of 'Dutch Books' in the Theory of Choice Under Risk''. *

Andreu Mas-Colell Andreu Mas-Colell (; born 29 June 1944) is an economist, an expert in microeconomics and a prominent mathematical economist. He is the founder of the Barcelona School of Economics and a professor in the department of economics at Pompeu Fabra ...

. ''On the Theory of Perfect Competition''. *

Hugo Sonnenschein Hugo Sonnenschein may refer to: * Hugo Sonnenschein (writer) Hugo Sonnenschein (pseudonym: ''Sonka, Hugo Sonka'') (May 25, 1889, Kyjov – July 20, 1953, Mírov) was an Austrian writer from Bohemia. He contributed to the Czech-language Communis ...

. ''The Economics of Incentives: An Introductory Account''.

1990 - 1999

Joseph E. Stiglitz Joseph Eugene Stiglitz (; born February 9, 1943) is an American New Keynesian economist, a public policy analyst, political activist, and a professor at Columbia University. He is a recipient of the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences (2 ...

. (Nobel Laureate 2001). ''The Theory of Bankruptcy in Modern Capitalism''. *

Ariel Rubinstein Ariel Rubinstein (Hebrew: אריאל רובינשטיין; born April 13, 1951) is an Israeli economist who works in economic theory, game theory and bounded rationality. Biography Ariel Rubinstein is a professor of economics at the School of Ec ...

. ''Topics in Language and Economics''. * David M. Kreps. ''Anticipated Utility and Dynamic Choice''. *

Nancy L. Stokey Nancy Laura Stokey (born May 8, 1950) has been the Frederick Henry Prince Distinguished Service Professor of Economics at the University of Chicago since 1990 and focuses particularly on mathematical economics while recently conducting research a ...

. ''Shirtsleeves to Shirtsleeves: The Economics of Social Mobility''. *

Roy Radner Roy Radner (June 29, 1927 – October 6, 2022) was Leonard N. Stern School Professor of Business at New York University. He was a micro-economic theorist. Radner's research interests included strategic analysis of climate change, bounded ration ...

. ''Economic Survival''. *

Robert B. Wilson Robert Butler "Bob" Wilson, Jr. (born May 16, 1937) is an American economist who is the Adams Distinguished Professor of Management, Emeritus at Stanford University. He was jointly awarded the 2020 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences, toge ...

(Nobel Laureate 2020). ''Negotiation With Private Information: Litigation and Strikes''. * Peter A. Diamond (Nobel Laureate 2010). ''Issues in Social Insurance''. *

Kenneth J. Arrow Kenneth Joseph Arrow (August 23, 1921 – February 21, 2017) was an American economist, mathematician and political theorist. He received the John Bates Clark Medal in 1957, and the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences in 1972, along with J ...

(Nobel Laureate 1972). ''Information and Returns to Scale''. * Gary S. Becker (Nobel Laureate 1992). ''On Habits, Addictions, and Traditions''. *

Vernon L. Smith Vernon Lomax Smith (born January 1, 1927) is an American economist who is currently a professor of economics and law at Chapman University. He was formerly the McLellan/Regent's Professor of Economics at the University of Arizona, a professor of ...

(Nobel Laureate 2002). ''Experimental Economics: Behavioral Lessons for Theory and Microeconomic Policy''.

2000 - 2009

Drew Fudenberg Drew Fudenberg (born March 2, 1957) is a professor of economics at MIT. His research spans many aspects of game theory, including equilibrium theory, learning in games, evolutionary game theory, and many applications to other fields. Fudenberg ...

. ''Learning in Games''. *

Roger B. Myerson Roger Bruce Myerson (born March 29, 1951) is an American economist and professor at the University of Chicago. He holds the title of the David L. Pearson Distinguished Service Professor of Global Conflict Studies at The Pearson Institute for the ...

(Nobel Laureate 2007). ''On the Foundations of Social Institutions''. * Matthew Jackson. ''Social Structure, Segregation, and Economic Behavior''. *

Robert C. Merton Robert Cox Merton (born July 31, 1944) is an American economist, Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences laureate, and professor at the MIT Sloan School of Management, known for his pioneering contributions to continuous-time finance, especia ...

. (Nobel Laureate 1997). ''How to Pursue Both Comparative Advantage and Efficient Diversification of Risk: An Application of Derivative Securities''. *

John O. Ledyard John is a common English name and surname: * John (given name) * John (surname) John may also refer to: New Testament Works * Gospel of John, a title often shortened to John * First Epistle of John, often shortened to 1 John * Second Ep ...

. ''Information Markets''. *

Daniel Kahneman Daniel Kahneman (; ; March 5, 1934 – March 27, 2024) was an Israeli-American psychologist best known for his work on the psychology of judgment and decision-making as well as behavioral economics, for which he was awarded the 2002 Nobel Memor ...

(Nobel Laureate 2002). ''Psychology and Behavioral Economics''. * Bengt R. Holmstrom (Nobel Laureate 2016). ''Corporate Governance''. * Eric R. Maskin (Nobel Laureate 2007). ''How to Reduce Greenhouse Gas Emissions: An Application of Auction Theory. * David Baron. ''Private Politics.'' * Oliver Hart (Nobel Laureate 2016). ''Financial Contracting''.

2010 - 2019

* Vincent P. Crawford. ''Puffery, Trickery, Rendezvous, and Reassurance: Nonequilibrium Models of Strategic Communication''. *

Paul Milgrom Paul Robert Milgrom (born April 20, 1948) is an American economist. He is the Shirley and Leonard Ely Professor of Humanities and Sciences at the Stanford University School of Humanities and Sciences, a position he has held since 1987. He is a ...

(Nobel Laureate 2020). ''Prices and Auctions in Markets with Complex Constraints''. *

Ehud Kalai Ehud Kalai () is a prominent Israeli American game theorist and mathematical economist known for his contributions to the field of game theory and its interface with economics, social choice, computer science and operations research. He was the ...

. ''Chaos, Learning and Stability in Big Games''. *

Colin Camerer Colin Farrell Camerer (born December 4, 1959) is an Americans, American behavioral economics, behavioral economist, and Robert Kirby Professor of Behavioral Finance and Economics at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech). Background A ...

. ''When Game Theory Predicts Surprisingly Well, and Why''. *

Hal Varian Hal Ronald Varian (born March 18, 1947, in Wooster, Ohio) is chief economist at Google and holds the title of emeritus professor at the University of California, Berkeley where he was founding dean of the School of Information. Varian is an econ ...

. ''Predicting the Present with Search Engine Data''. *

Jean Tirole Jean Tirole (born 9 August 1953) is a French economist who is currently a professor of economics at Toulouse 1 Capitole University. He focuses on industrial organization, game theory, banking and finance, and psychology. In particular, he focus ...

(Nobel Laureate 2014). ''Laws and Norms''. * K. Daron Acemoglu. ''Why Nations Fail''. * Al Roth (Nobel Laureate 2012). ''Market Design''. *

Susan Athey Susan Carleton Athey (born November 1970) is an American economist. She is the Economics of Technology Professor in the School of Humanities and Sciences at the Stanford Graduate School of Business. Prior to joining Stanford, she has been a profe ...

. ''Marketplaces, Intermediaries, and Product Quality''. * Stephen Morris. ''Taking Incomplete Information Seriously: The Misunderstanding of John Harsanyi''.

2020-present

Avinash Dixit Avinash Kamalakar Dixit (born 6 August 1944) is an Indian-American economist. He is the John J. F. Sherrerd '52 University Professor of Economics Emeritus at Princeton University, and has been distinguished adjunct professor of economics at L ...

. ''Community-Based Organizations to Combat Corruption''. (postponed)

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