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Steine Lecture Series
Monday, October 4th, 2010 François Bourguignon, Director of the Paris School of Economics and former Chief Economist for the World Bank "Global Inequality"
	Since October 2007, François Bourguignon has been the Director of the Paris School of Economics (PSE). In addition, he is Professor of Economics at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales in Paris.  Among other advisory boards, he currently serves on the Conseil d’analyse économique (Council of Economic Advisors) of the French Prime Minister. Bourguignon co-founded and directed the Département et Laboratoire d’Economie Théorique et Appliquée (DELTA), a research unit in theoretical and applied economics that was later incorporated into the PSE. He has also held academic positions at the Ecole Normal Supérieure, the University of Toronto, and the University of Chile.  He was Chief Economist and Senior Vice-President of the World Bank from 2003 to 2007.  Bourguignon received his Ph.D. from the University of Western Ontario. Bourguignon is a specialist in the economics of development, public policy, economic growth, and issues related to inequality and poverty. He played an important in reorienting the focus of the World Bank so as to increase the prominence of inequality and poverty on its agenda.  His is the author or editor of twelve books and has published well over one hundred articles. Bourguignon was made a Chevalier de l’Ordre du Mérite in 1991.  He has also been awarded Honorary Doctorates from the Université du Québec à Montréal, the Université de Génève, the University of Western Ontario, and the Université de Liège. Bourguignon is a Fellow of the Econometric Society and was President of the European Economic Association for Population Economics in 1995. He has received both the gold and silver medals for academic achievements from the French Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique.
STEINE LECTURE ARCHIVES Thursday, April 1, 2010 Dale Mortensen, Nobel Laureate from Northwestern University "Firm Heterogeneity: A reason some similar people are paid differently" [video] Tuesday, March 10, 2009 John Taylor, Mary and Robert Raymond Professor of Economics at Stanford University and the Janice Arthur McCoy Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution "Getting Off Track: How Government Caused, Prolonged, and Worsened the Financial Crisis" [windows video]   [real player video] Thursday, November 15th, 2007 Elhanan Helpman, Harvard University "International Specialization: New Perspectives" Thursday, November 2, 2006 N. Gregory Mankiw, Harvard University Thursday, September 8, 2005 Reinhard Selten, Nobel Laureate from the University of Bonn "Stationary Equilibrium Concepts for Experimental 2 by 2 Games" Wednesday, May 18th, 2005 Daron Acemoglu, MIT "Rethinking the Wealth of Nations" Tuesday, February 1st, 2005 George A. Akerlof, Nobel Laureate from the University of California at Berkeley "Identity and the Economics of Organizations" Monday, October 27th, 2003 Ronald W. Jones, the Xerox Professor of Economics at the University of Rochester "Globalization and the Theory of Input Trade" Wednesday, September 25, 2002 Martin Feldstein, Harvard University "Preventing Economic Crisis"

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