December 7, 2009 ABRAMOVITZ LECTURE to be given by Joel Mokyr from Northwestern University.

Joel Mokyr, the Robert H. Strotz Professor of Arts and Sciences and Professor of Economics and History from Northwestern, will give the Abramovitz Lecture on December 7, 2009. The Abramovitz Lecture Series was established in 2000 and is jointly sponsored by the Stanford Economics Department and SIEPR, the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research. The purpose of the lecture series is to honor the career and intellectual legacy of Moses Abramovitz.