A 30-year history of the Omicron Delta Epsilon guest speaker series
April 19, 1982
Dr. Robert Solow, Institute Professor of M.I.T.
Everything You Always Wanted to Know about the Federal Budget
March 23, 1983
Dr. Oldrich Kyn, Professor of Economics, Boston University
Planned vs. Free Market Economies: The Case of Austria and Czechoslovakia.
April 26, 1984
Dr. Robert Lekachman, Distinguished Professor of Economics, Lehman College
Is there Life After Reagan
April 15, 1985
Carolyn Shaw Bell, Professor of Economics, Wellesley College
Comparable Worth: Will it Work?
March 22, 1988
Dr. David Colander, Christian A. Johnson Distinguished Professor of Economics Middlebury College
Why are Economics Texts so Irrelevant
April 5, 1989
Dr. Scott McCormick, Associates in Rural Development (ARD)
Natural Resources and Economic Development in the Third World
February 8, 1990
Dr. Michael Claudon, Professor of Economics Middlebury College and President of Geoeconomics
Doing Business in the Soviet Union: Will the Reforms be Successful?
March 26, 1990
Thomas Salmon, Governor of the State of Vermont
April 18, 1991
Dr. Arthur Woolf, Professor of Economics, University of Vermont and former Chief Economist for Governor Kunin
The Role of Economic Analysis in State Government
April 9, 1992
Professor Shane Hunt, Professor of Economics, Boston University
Inflation, Depression, and Revolution in Latin America
April 22, 1993
Dr. Richard Brandenburg, Chair of the Vermont Health Care Authority
The Future of Health Care Reform in Vermont
April 14, 1994
Dr. Carl Reidel, Director of Environmental Programs, University of Vermont
Private Property and the Public Trust: A Challenge for Economics
April 27, 1995
Dr. Paul Dion, visiting professor, Saint Michael’s College
Why the United States is the World’s Pollution Spewing Policeman: The Economics of Multinational Public Goods
April 18, 1996
Dr. Darius Conger, Professor of Economics, LeMoyne College
An Economic Analysis of New Spouse Selection Following Divorce: At Last a Prince(ss) or Just Another Frog
April 14, 1997
Dr. Joseph Pliskin, Sydney Liswood Professor of Health Care Management at
Ben-Gurion University of the Negev in Israel, and Adjunct Professor at Harvard School of Public Health
Optimal Screening for Down’s Syndrome: An Economic Analysis
April 16, 1998
Dr. David Colander, Christian A. Johnson Distinguished Prof. of Economics, Middlebury College
The Way the World Really Works
April 21, 1999
Dr. Patrick Crowley, Professor of Economics, Middlebury College
EMU and the Euro: Background and Prospects
April 12, 2000
Dr. Thomas Naylor, Professor of Economics, Duke University
Techno-Fascism: The Foundation of the New Economy
April 25, 2001
Joseph Boutin, President and CEO of Merchants Bank
Banking Now and In The Future: The Changing Competitive Environment
April 26, 2002
Dr. Ashok S. Rai, Center for International Development, Harvard University
Microfinance Against Poverty
March 20, 2003
Dr. Art Woolf, Ass. Professor of Economics, University of Vermont and President ofNorthern Economic Consulting and the Vermont Economic Newsletter
New Hampshire vs. Vermont: What a Difference a River Makes
April 21, 2004
Dr. Abu Turab Rizvi, Professor of Economics, University of Vermont
Happiness, Income and Work
April 28, 2005
Dr. Mark Stephan Calnon, Chief Economist, Verizon
Evolution, Challenges, and the Future of the Telecommunications Industry
March 7, 2006
Dr. Gustav Papanek, President of the Boston Institute for Developing Economies and Emeritus Professor of Economics, Boston University
Poverty, Politics and Development in Asia: An economic adviser discusses successes and failure in over 50 years of work in the region
April 11, 2007
Dr. Sunder Ramaswamy, Frederick C. Dirks Professor of Economics and Acting Dean at Middlebury College
Power of Economic Reasoning
April 8, 2008
Dr. Bisrat Aklilu, Executive Coordinator, Multi-Donor Trust Fund Office, the United Nations
The United Nations and the Millennium Development Goals: Challenges and Opportunities