Minnesota Lecture

The Minnesota Lecture series is sponsored by the University of Minnesota Department of Economics; each lecturer is a distinguished graduate of the Minnesota Economics PhD program.

Each year a committee of graduate students selects an alumnus who has made significant contributions to the discipline of economics.  The inaugural lecture was given by Nobel Prize winner Daniel McFadden. Later honorees include Lars Hansen, another Nobel Prize winner; Zvi Eckstein and Richard Rogerson, alumni and former faculty members at Minnesota; and Richard Sandor, who is known as the “father of financial futures.”

The Minnesota Lecture showcases “the shoulders of giants” on which Minnesota Economics graduates stand as they pursue research that will change the way economists and others see the world.