Rogge Memorial LectureThe Rogge Memorial Lecture was started shortly after the death of Benjamin A. Rogge in 1980. Ben Rogge was a champion of libertarian principles and free market economics. To honor him, the Rogge Committee arranges a lecture each year. |
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February 2020 Rogge Lecture
Dr. Joseph Mason
Department of Finance
Louisiana State University
"Filtering Costly Information in the Age of Market Segmentation" (evening talk)
"Property Appraisal Quality and Mortgage Loan Performance in the Great Recession” (noon talk)
September 2018 Rogge Lecture
Douglas A. Irwin
Professor of Economics, Dartmouth College
“Understanding Trump’s Trade Policy”
October 2017 Rogge Lecture
Athanasios Orphanides
Professor of the Practice of Global Economics & Management
MIT Sloan School of Management
“Will the Euro Area Survive? A Diagnosis Not a Prescription”
September 2016 Rogge Lecture
Esther George
President and Chief Executive Officer
Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City
“An Insider’s View of the Federal Reserve and the US Economy”
September 2015 Rogge Lecture
Robert Higgs
Senior Fellow in Political Economy
at the Independent Institute
“False Prosperity During World War II”
November 2014 Rogge Lecture
Deirdre McCloskey
Distinguished Professor of Economics, History, English, and Communication at the University of Illinois at Chicago
Professor of Economics History at Gothenburg University
“How Liberty and Dignity Made Us Rich”
March 2014 Rogge Lecture
Professor Joel Mokyr
Robert H. Strotz Professor of Arts and Sciences and Professor of Economics and History
Northwestern University
“The Market for Ideas: A Historical Puzzle Resolved”
March 2013 Rogge Lecture
Terry Anderson
John and Jean De Nault Senior Fellow
The Hoover Institute
Noon Lecture: “The Not So Wild West: Property Rights on the Frontier”
Evening Lecture: "Free Market Environmentalism: Breaking the Shackles of Regulation."
October 2011 Rogge Lecture
Mark Pauly
Bendheim Professor, Professor of Health Care Systems, Insurance and Risk Management, and of Business and Public Policy
Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania
"Solving Health Care's Problems Through Aggressive Neutrality"
April 2010 Rogge Lecture
Sam Peltzman
Ralph and Dorothy Keller Distinguished Service Professor of Economics Emeritus
University of Chicago’s School of Business
"Pharmaceutical Regulation: A Matter of Life and Death"
April 2009 Rogge Lecture
Charles Calomiris
Henry Kaufman Professor Emeritus, Financial Institutions and International and Public Affairs
Columbia Business School
"The Subprime Turmoil: What’s Old, What’s New, and What’s Next"
September 2007 Rogge Lecture
Michael Mandelbaum
Professor Emeritus, Political Science
Christian A. Herter Professor of American Foreign Policy
John Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies
"Democracy’s Good Name: The Rise and Risks of the World’s Most Popular Form of Government"
October 2006 Rogge Lecture
Douglass C. North
Professor Emeritus, Economics, Political Economics
Nobel Laureate in Economics 1993
University of Washington at Seattle
"The Natural State or Why Effective Economic Reform is so Difficult to Achieve"
March 2005 Rogge Lecture
Jeffery Miron
Senior Lecturer on Economics Director of Undergraduate Studies
Harvard University
Noon Lecture: “Drug War Crimes”
Evening Lecture: "Why Thoughtful Conservatives Should be Libertarians: The Pitfalls of Fixing Bad Government with More Government."
November 2003 Rogge Lecture
William Easterly
Professor of Economics
Co-director of the NYU Development Research Institute
New York University
“The Elusive Quest for Growth: Economists’ Adventures and Misadventures in the Tropics”
2001-2002
Michael Elliott
Former Managing Editor, Editor, Time Magazine, Time International, Time Asia
CEO, One Campaign
“East is East and West is West, and Will They Ever Meet?”
1999-2000
Dr. David Landes
Senior Fellow at Harvard’s Society of Fellows
Emeritus Professor of Economics and History
Harvard University
1998-1999
Robert Tollison
Professor of Economics Emeritus
BB&T Senior Fellow
Clemson University
“Rent Seeking: The Economics of a Parasite Economy.”
1997-1998
Theodore Lowi
Professor of American Institutions Emeritus
Government Department at Cornell University
Cornell Institute for Public Affairs
“The Legacy of ’96: It Ain’t About Who Won, Stupid; It’s what won.”
1996-1997
Manual Ayau
President and Founder (1972-88)
Francisco Marroquín University
Founder, the Center for Economic and Social Studies
1995-1996
Alvin Rabushka
David and Joan Traitel Senior Fellow Emeritus
Hoover Institute
Member, 1980 Tax Policy Task Force
“What is the Flat Tax and Will We Finally Get One?”
1994-1995
Steven Goldsmith ’68
46th Mayor of Indianapolis
Derek Bok Professor of the Practice of Urban Policy
Harvard University
“Using the Marketplace to Make Big Cities Work.”
1993-1994
James M. Buchanan Jr.
Nobel Laureate in Economics 1986
Professor of Economics Emeritus
George Mason University
“Democracy in Society.”
1991-1992
Richard Epstein
Peter and Kirsten Bedford Senior Fellow, Hoover Institute
Professor of Law Emeritus
University of Chicago
“Markets, Coercion, and Discrimination.”
1990-1991
Walter Williams
Visiting Scholar, Hoover Institute
Professor of Economics Emeritus
George Mason University
“Government Interference and Individual Freedom.”
1989-1990
Robin Malloy
E.I. White Chair and Distinguished Professor of Law
Founder, The Association for Law, Property and Society
Syracuse University
1987-1988
Richard Epstein
Peter and Kirsten Bedford Senior Fellow, Hoover Institute
Professor of Law Emeritus
University of Chicago
“Discretion in Markets and in Politics.”
1985-1986
Israel Kirzner
2006 Global Award for Entrepreneurship Research
Professor of Economics Emeritus
New York University
“The Economics of Discovery and the Discovery of Economics.”
1984-1985
Thomas Sowell
Rose and Milton Friedman Senior Fellow on Public Policy
Hoover Institute
Stanford University
“Preferential Treatment in International Relations.”
1983-1984
George Stigler
Nobel Laureate in Economics 1982
Professor of Economics Emeritus
University of Chicago
“Economics - The Imperial Science.”
1982-1983
Ralph Harris, Baron of High Cross
Director, Institute of Economic Affairs (1957-88)
Director, Times Newspaper (1988-2001)
University of Buckingham
“Economics - The Imperial Science.”