In 2005, Patrick Byrne, the founder and CEO of Internet retailer Overstock.com, who holds a Ph.D. in philosophy from Stanford endowed the Arrow Lecture Series in Ethics and Leadership. The series is named in honor of Nobel Laureate Kenneth Arrow (photo), the Joan Kenney Professor of Economics and Professor of Operations Research, Emeritus. Professor Arrow has made many contributions to welfare economics, social choice theory and collective decision-making. He is also a founding member of the Ethics in Society honors program. 

During the 2012-2013 academic year, we will sponsor two Arrow lectures.

January 24, 2013
5:30-7:00pm / CEMEX Auditorium, Knight Management Center

"Income Inequality: Evidence and Policy Implications"

Emmanuel Saez (Economics, UC Berkeley)


Emmanuel Saez is Professor of Economics and Director of the Center for Equitable Growth at the University of California Berkeley. His research focuses on tax policy and inequality both from theoretical and empirical perspectives. Jointly with Thomas Piketty, he has constructed long-run historical series of income inequality in the United States that have been widely discussed in the public debate. He received his PhD in Economics from MIT in 1999. He was awarded the John Bates Clark medal of the American Economic Association in 2009 and a MacArthur Fellowship in 2010.

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May 16, 2013
5:30-7:00pm / location TBA

"Where is inequality headed?"

Tony Atkinson (Economics, Oxford)


Sir Tony Atkinson, currently at Nuffield College, Oxford, works predominantly on the economics of income distribution,   poverty and security, micro-economics, and public economics. His research has led to an inequality measure named after him -- the Atkinson index.  Prior to Nuffield, Atkinson held positions at the University of Cambridge, University College London, the London School of Economics, and the University of Essex. He was elected a Fellow of the British Academy, a Fellow of the Econometric Society, Honorary Member of the American Economic Association, and Foreign Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.


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Past Arrow Lectures