Nancy L. Schwartz Memorial Lecture

The Nancy L. Schwartz Memorial Lecture is a series of public lectures 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.

Lectures

Reinhard Selten. Evolution, Learning, and Economic Behavior.
Truman F. Bewley. Knightian Uncertainty.
Robert E. Lucas, Jr.,. On the Mechanics of Economic Development.
Robert J. Aumann. Cooperation, Rationality, and Bounded Reality.
Menachem E. Yaari. On the Role of 'Dutch Books' in the Theory of Choice Under Risk.
Andreu Mas-Colell. On the Theory of Perfect Competition.
Hugo Sonnenschein. The Economics of Incentives: An Introductory Account.

Joseph E. Stiglitz.. The Theory of Bankruptcy in Modern Capitalism.
Ariel Rubinstein. Topics in Language and Economics.
David M. Kreps. Anticipated Utility and Dynamic Choice.
Nancy L. Stokey. Shirtsleeves to Shirtsleeves: The Economics of Social Mobility.
Roy Radner. Economic Survival.
Robert B. Wilson. Negotiation With Private Information: Litigation and Strikes.
Peter A. Diamond. Issues in Social Insurance.
Kenneth J. Arrow. Information and Returns to Scale.
Gary S. Becker. On Habits, Addictions, and Traditions.
Vernon L. Smith. Experimental Economics: Behavioral Lessons for Theory and Microeconomic Policy.

Drew Fudenberg. Learning in Games.
Roger B. Myerson. On the Foundations of Social Institutions.
Matthew Jackson. Social Structure, Segregation, and Economic Behavior.
Robert C. Merton.. How to Pursue Both Comparative Advantage and Efficient Diversification of Risk: An Application of Derivative Securities.
John O. Ledyard. Information Markets.
Daniel Kahneman. Psychology and Behavioral Economics.
Bengt R. Holmstrom. Corporate Governance.
Eric R. Maskin. How to Reduce Greenhouse Gas Emissions: An Application of Auction Theory.
David Baron. Private Politics.
Oliver Hart. Financial Contracting.

Vincent P. Crawford. Puffery, Trickery, Rendezvous, and Reassurance: Nonequilibrium Models of Strategic Communication.
Paul Milgrom. Prices and Auctions in Markets with Complex Constraints.
Ehud Kalai. Chaos, Learning and Stability in Big Games.
Colin Camerer. When Game Theory Predicts Surprisingly Well, and Why.
Hal Varian. Predicting the Present with Search Engine Data.
Jean Tirole. Laws and Norms.
K. Daron Acemoglu. Why Nations Fail.
Al Roth. Market Design.
Susan Athey. Marketplaces, Intermediaries, and Product Quality.
Stephen Morris. Taking Incomplete Information Seriously: The Misunderstanding of John Harsanyi.

Avinash Dixit. Community-Based Organizations to Combat Corruption.
Philippe Aghion. Rethinking Capitalism Post-Covid: The Power of Creative Destruction.
Dilip Abreu. Bargaining and Cooperation in Dynamic Games
Darrell Duffie. The Resilience of the US Treasury Market
Douglas Diamond. The Long and Short of Financial Development.