Eli F. Heckscher Lectures

The Heckscher Lectures are held each year to honour the memory of Eli F. Heckscher's (1879-1952). Among other things, Heckscher was the founder of economic history in Sweden. The lectures bring world known scholars to SSE, such as Geoffrey Jones and Nobel Laureate Olivier E. Williamson. Since 2009, the lectures are organized in cooperation with the Swedish research institute Ratio.

The tradition started in 2003 when a conference was organized in memory of Heckscher. The papers were published in a conference volume: Findlay, Henriksson, Lindgren and Lundahl (eds, 2006), Eli Heckscher, International Trade and Economic History. Cambridge, Mass: MIT Press.

2022

Professor Ray Stokes,
University of Glasgow

”Business, Industrial, or Economic History? Finding Common Ground”

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2021

David Autor, Ford Professor of Economics at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, MIT.

“On the Persistence of the China Shock “

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2019

Professor Mary O'Sullivan
Université de Genève

"The Intellgent Woman's Guide to Capitalism"

Date: 26 September 2019
Room Aulan, Sveavägen 65

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2018

Professor Andrei Shleifer
Harvard University

"A Crisis of Beliefs - Investor Psychology and Financial Fragility"

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2017

Professor Barry M. Weingast
Stanford University

"Reconstructing Adam Smith's Politics"

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2016

Professor Paul Romer
NYU, Stern School of Business

"Short-Run Shocks; Long-Run Pessimism"

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2015

Professor Naomi R. Lamoreaux
Yale University

"Corporations and Democracy: Beyond Cross-Country Regressions"

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2014

Professor Kenneth S Rogoff
Harvard University

"Lessons from Financial Crisis"

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2013

Professor James A. Robinson
Harvard University

"Why Nations Fail"

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2012

Professor Randall Morck
University of Alberta, Edmonton, Kanada

"Recycling Corporations: A Matter of Life and Death"

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2011

Professor Joel Mokyr
Northwestern University

"Institutions, Technology and Culture: the Origins of
Modern Economic Growth Reconsidered"

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2010

Professor Deirdre McCloskey
University of Illinois at Chicago

"Bourgeois Dignity: Why Economics Can´t Explain
the Modern World"

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2009

Professor Mark Casson
University of Reading

"Entrepreneurship: Theory, Institutions and History."

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2008

Professor Youssef Cassis
University of Geneva

"Entrepreneurship and Big Business. The European
Experience and the American Challange."

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2007

Professor Jaime Reis
University of Lisboa

"Financial Systems in the Periphery: A Nineteenth
Century Comparison of Scandinavia and Southern Europe"

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2006

Professor Geoffrey G. Jones
Harvard Business School

"Global Firms and Global Wealth since 1850."

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2005

Professor Oliver E. Williamson
University of California Berkeley

"Business History: The Lens of
Contract/Governance Perspective"

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2004

Professor Stanley Engerman
University of Rochester

"Blockades, Sanctions, and Economic Warfare."

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