Condliffe Memorial Lecture
The Condliffe Memorial Lecture was instituted in 2005 to honour John Bell Condliffe, who became the first Professor of Economics at Canterbury University College in 1921. The Lecture series brings leading economists to Canterbury to provide a public lecture highlighting their recent work and its relevance to the broader business and policy community.
2013 Condliffe Memorial Lecture
Speaker: Ed Glaeser
Date: Wednesday, 10 July 2013
Ed Glaeser is the Fred and Eleanor Glimp Professor of Economics at Harvard, where he also serves as Director of the Taubman Center for State and Local Government and the Rappaport Institute for Greater Boston. He studies the economics of cities, and has written scores of urban issues, including the growth of cities, segregation, crime, and housing markets. He has been particularly interested in the role that geographic proximity can play in creating knowledge and innovation.
He received his Ph.D. from the University of Chicago in 1992 and has been at Harvard since then.
For more information: www.canterbury.ac.nz/wiw
2012 Condliffe Memorial Lecture: John H. Cochrane "What if governments can't pay their debts?"
2010 Condliffe Memorial Lecture: Charles Plott "The emergence of economics as a laboratory sciences"
2009 Condliffe Memorial Lecture: Hal Varian "Computer mediated transactions"
2008 Condliffe Memorial Lecture: Joel Slemrod, "Tax policy in the real world"
2007 Condliffe Memorial Lecture: Mark Blaug, "Congestion Charges: the solution to traffic problems?"
2006 Condliffe Memorial Lecture: Gene Grossman, "Trading Tasks: It's Not Wine for Cloth Anymore".