Werner Sichel Lecture Series Speakers
The Department of Economics at Western Michigan University is pleased to host the Werner Sichel Lecture Series.
In 2013, the series celebrated its 50th anniversary.
- 2022-23: Behavioral Economics, Applications & Assessments
- 2021-22: China & India, Two Emerging Giants with Different Economic, Political and Sociological Models
- 2019-20: Differences in Family Disadvantage Effects By Gender and Race and Implications for Adult Outcomes
- 2018-19: Alternative Economic Indicators
- 2017-18: Political Economy of Inequality: U.S. & Global Dimensions
- 2016-17: Immigration Policy Today
- 2015-16: The Impacts of China's Rise on the Pacific and the World
- 2014-15: Lessons from the Great Recession
- 2013-14: Award-Winning Economists Speak on Contemporary Economic Issues
- 2012-13: The Political Economy of Good Governance
- 2011-12: The Economics of Health
- 2010-11: Regional Economic Development: Current Issues
- 2009-10: Advances in Economic Forecasting
- 2008-09: The Economics of Natural and Unnatural Disasters
- 2007-08: Globalization and International Development: Critical Issues of the 21st Century
- 2006-07: How Do We Spend our Time? Evidence from the American Time Use Survey
- 2005-06: Immigrants and Their International Money Flows
- 2004-05: Regional Economic Development: Current Issues
- 2003-04: How the World Survived the Population Bomb: An Economic Perspective
- 2002-03: Methodology of Benefit Cost Analysis
- 2001-02: Gambling with the Future: Economic and Social Perspectives on the Casinos in America
- 2000-01: The Economics of Work and Family
- 1999-00: The Economics of Health Care
- 1998-99: The Economics of Sports: Winners and Losers
- 1997-98: When Is Transition Over?
- 1996-97: The Economics of The Great Depression
- 1995-96: Telecommunications: Have Regulators Dialed the Wrong Number?
- 1994-95: The Economics of Rich and Poor: The Political Economy of Income Redistribution
- 1993-94: The Underground Economy
- 1992-93: Human Capital and Economic Development
- 1991-92: The Economics of Education
- 1990-91: Socialism in Transition
- 1989-90: The Economics of Discrimination
- 1988-89: The State of Economic Science: The Views of Six Nobel Laureates
- 1987-88: Organized Labor at The Crossroads
- View 1963-1986 series here