Named Lectures
Introduction
The Econometric Society Australasian Standing Committee has approved several
Named Lectures. These lectures are named after prominent economists from
the Australasian region and are presented at the Australasian Meetings
by invited lecturers.
Currently, there are three Named Lectures: A W Phillips Lecture, Colin
Clark Lecture and the E J Hannan Lecture.
Brief Biographies
A W Phillips
A W (Bill) Phillips was born in New Zealand in 1914. Following his
initial work as an apprentice electrician, he travelled in Australasia
and then to Britain (via China and Russia) in 1937. He studied at the London
School of Economics from 1946 to 1949, and then took up a Lecturership
there. He became a professor at LSE in 1958. In 1967, he returned to Australasia
to take up a chair at the Research School of Social Sciences at the Australian
National University. In 1969, he returned to New Zealand to take up an appointment at the University of Aukland where he worked until his death in 1975.
Bill Phillips is probably best remembered for his famous 1958 Economica
paper on what is now known as "the Phillips curve" relationship between
the unemployment rate and wage change. He also produced a hydraulic machine,
known as Moniac or "the Phillips Machine" as a physical representation
of his mathematical model of the economy, thus combining his interests
in macroeconomics and hydro-dynamics.
Biographical and other information about A W Phillips can be found in
the following sources:
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Barr, Nicholas, "The Phillips Machine Project", LSE Magazine,
June 1988, 3.
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Blyth, C A, "A W H Phillips, MBE: 1914-1975", The Economic Record,
51-135, September 1975, 303-307.
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Blyth, C A, "Phillips, A W H", in Eatwell, J, Milgate, M and P Newman (editors),
The
New Palgrave, Macmillan, 1987, 857-861.
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Lancaster, Kelvin, "Phillips, A William" in International Encyclopedia
of the Social Sciences, New York, The Free Press, 1979, 632-634.
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Phelps, Edmund S, "Phillips Curve", in Eatwell, J, Milgate, M and P Newman
(editors), The New Palgrave, Macmillan, 1987, 858-861.
E J Hannan
E J (Ted) Hannan was born in Melbourne and, after war service, completed
a commerce degree at the University of Melbourne. Following a position
with the Reserve Bank of Australia, he completed a PhD in statistics at
the Australian National University. He was to remain at the ANU until his
retirement in 1986.
Ted Hannan has written a large number of influential papers in statistics
and econometrics, particularly in the field of time series analysis. He
is also the author of several well-known books in this area, including
Time
Series Analysis published in 1964 and Multiple Time Series published
in 1970. Hannan published over 140 papers and books, with a steady flow
continuing until his death in 1994. Amongst other recognitions of his achievements
he was elected a Fellow of the Econometric Society in 1966.
Biographical and other information about E J Hannan can be found in
the following sources:
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Gani, J M, "Edward James Hannan 1921-1994", Historical Records of Australian
Science, 10-2, December 1994, 173-185. A footnote to this paper points
out that shorter and slightly different versions of this account have appeared
as follows: "Obituary: Edward James Hannan", Australian Journal of Statistics,
36-1, 1994, 1-8 and "Obituary: Edward James Hannan", Journal of Applied
Probability, 31, 1994, 595-605.
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Robinson, P M, "Edward J Hannan, 1921-1994", Journal of Time Series
Analysis, 15-6, 1994, 563-576.
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Pagan, A R, "The ET Interview: Professor E J Hannan", Econometric Theory,
1-2, August 1985, 263-289.
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Pagan, A R and D Terrell, "Obituary: E J (Ted) Hannan", Econometric
Theory, 10, 1994, 221-222.
Colin Clark
Colin Clark was born in London and studied chemistry at Oxford University
in 1924. He was appointed Lecturer in Statistics at Cambridge University
in 1931 before moving to Australia, where he spent a year at the Universities
of Melbourne and Sydney. He was Director of the Queensland Bureau of Industry
and the Queensland Government Statistician between 1938 and 1953. He returned
to England as Director of the Institute of Agricultural Economics at Oxford
University. Clark subsequently spent time in Australia and England and
returned to Australia permanently in 1978.
Colin Clark's research output has ranged widely over the economics discipline,
including agricultural economics, macroeconomics, demography, policy, economic
growth and national income accounting. He is credited with the invention
of the concept of Gross National Product (at around the same time as Kuznets'
invention of Gross Domestic Product) and was influential in setting up
the National Accounts for Australia. He produced many journal papers and
books, including The National Income, 1924-31 published in
1936, the classic Conditions of Economic Progress in 1940, The
Economics of 1960 in 1942, and Population Growth and Land Use
in 1967 to mention just four.
Colin Clark's contributions to economics have been recognized by his
election to fellowship of many prestigious societies including election
as a Distinguished Fellow of the Economic Society of Australia in 1987
and as a Fellow of the Econometric Society in 1944.
Biographical and other information about Colin Clark can be found in
the following sources:
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Arndt, H W, "Clark, C G" in Eatwell, J, Milgate, M and P Newman (editors),
The
New Palgrave, Macmillan, 1987, 428.
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Arndt, H W, "Clark, Colin" in International Encyclopedia of the Social
Sciences, New York, The Free Press, 1979, 121-124.
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"Distinguished Fellow - Dr Colin Clark", The Economic Record, 66-195,
December 1987, 300.
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Higgins, C I, "Colin Clark: An Interview", The Economic Record,
65-190, September 1989, 296-310.
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Perkins, J O N and Alan A Powell, "Colin Clark, 1905-1989: An Affectionate
Memoir", The Economic Record, December 1990, 329-341.
Previous Presenters
of Named Lectures
Year |
A W Phillips |
Colin Clark |
E J Hannan |
| 2004 |
Andrew Chesher |
Kaushik Basu |
Clive Granger |
| 2003 |
Ricardo Caballero |
John McMillan |
Donald Andrews |
| 2002 |
Lawrence Christiano |
Paul Klemperer |
James Hamilton |
| 2001 |
Steven Durlauf |
John Geanakoplos |
Joel Horowitz |
| 1999 |
Darrell Duffie |
Roger Farmer |
Chris Sims |
| 1998 |
Mark Watson |
R Preston McAfee |
Richard Blundell |
| 1997 |
Robert Engle |
Leonid Hurwicz |
Peter C B Phillips |
| 1996 |
Arie Kapteyn |
Elhanan Helpman |
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| 1994 |
Jean-Jacques Laffont |
John Geweke |
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| 1993 |
Peter Robinson |
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| 1992 |
Clive Granger |
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| 1991 |
Daniel McFadden |
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| 1989 |
David Hendry |
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| 1988 |
John B Taylor |
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Other Special Lectures
Econometric Society Presidential
Lecture
| 2004 |
Ariel Rubinstein |
| 2003 |
Eric Maskin |
| 2002 |
Guy Laroque |
| 2001 |
Avinash Dixit |
| 1999 |
Robert Wilson |
| 1988 |
Anthony B Atkinson |
Marschak Lecture (rotates around regional meetings)
| 2004 |
Francis X. Diebold |
| 1999 |
Jean-François Richard |
| 1996 |
Ronald Gallant |
| 1992 |
Mervyn King |
| 1988 |
Jerry Hausman |
Occasional Lectures
Alfred Cowles Lecture
National Australia Bank Nobel Laureate Address
| 1998 |
Sir James A Mirrlees |
Full Listing of Invited Speakers and Topics
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