The Annual Hicks Lecture: Historical Record

The Annual Hicks Lecture: Historical Record

Oxford Economic Papers hosts the Annual Hicks Lecture every year since 1984. The event has taken place in the Department of Economics in recent years, and is a significant event in the Department's annual calendar. 

 

Please find recordings of Hicks Lectures from recent years here

 

Previous Hicks Lecturers

 

 

 

Lecturer

Year

Title of lecture

Robert Solow

1984

Mr Hicks and the Classics

Lord Kaldor

1985

Limits on Growth

Edmond Malinvaud

1986

Reflecting on the Theory of Capital and Growth

Franco Modigliani

1987

Reagan's Economic Policies: a Critique

Rudiger Dornbusch

1988

Private Capital Flows, Debt and Economic Development

Robert Lucas

1989

Supply Side Economics: an Analytical View

Amartya Sen

1990

Markets and Freedoms

Jeffrey Sachs

1991

Comparing Economic Reform in Latin America and Eastern Europe

Jean Tirole

1992

The Internal Organisation of Government

Larry Summers

1993

Economic Policy in a Shrinking World

Paul Krugman

1995

The Mystery of Economic Stability

Avinash Dixit

1996

Investment and Employment in the Short Run and the Long Run

Richard Blundell

1999

Making Work Pay: Evaluating Welfare Reforms to the Low Wage Labour Market

James Heckman

2004

Understanding Inequality: Separating Heterogeneity from Uncertainty

Gary Becker

2006

Health as Human Capital: Emerging Theory and Some Evidence

Thomas Schelling

2008

What is Game Theory? A Personal Perspective

Elhanan Helpman

2009

Labor Market Frictions, Trade and Inequality

Olivier Blanchard

2010

The Impact Effects of the Crisis on Emerging Market Economies

Angus Deaton

2011

Living Through Tough Times: Well Being and Economic Adversity

Ken Rogoff

2012

Debt Overhangs

Esther Duflo

2014

Did we misunderstand microcredit? Evidence from a decade of empirical research.

Timothy Besley

2015

Aspirations and the political economy of inequality

Nick Bloom

2016

Management and the Wealth of Nations

Amy Finkelstein

2017

Moral hazard in health insurance: What do we know and how do we know it?

Daron Acemoglu

2022

Redirecting technological change: applications to energy, automation, and AI

Danny Quah

2023

Income Inequality as Sufficient Statistic

Isaiah Andrews

2024

True and Pseudo-True Parameter Values

 

About the Hicks Lecture Series

 

The Sir John Hicks Memorial Lecture has run since 1984.

 

Sir John Hicks was one of the most foremost and influential economists of the 20th Century. In 1946, Hicks returned to Nuffield College as a Research Fellow (1946–1952) and went on to become Drummond Professor of Political Economy (1952–1965) and finally as a research fellow of All Souls College (1965–1971), where he continued writing after his retirement.

As part of its objective of promoting economic education, OEP sponsors the annual Hicks lectures, which bring leading researchers in the field to Oxford to present their work and share their insights with Oxford economic students and faculty. The lectures began in 1984 with a lecture by Robert Solow on Mr Hicks and the Classics, and have since featured ten further Nobel laureates in economics, as well as many other very prominent figures.