Max Weber Past Lectures 2006-2011

Max Weber Lectures 2010-2011

20 October 2010
Jane Mansbridge , Harvard Kennedy School
"Against Accountability"
17 November 2010
Kenneth Pomeranz , University of California-Irvine
"Development with Chinese Characteristics? Convergence and Divergence in Long-run and Comparative Perspective "
15 December 2010
Daniel C. Dennett , Tufts University
"My brain made me do it!”—When neuroscientists think they can do philosophy"
19 January 2011
Mario Biagioli , University of California, Davis
"The Dematerialization of Invention: Revolutions in the History of a Legal Concept"
16 February 2011
Jean Tirole , Toulouse School of Economics
"Laws and Norms"
16 March 2011
Deirdre Curtin , University of Amsterdam
"Beyond Whack-a-mole: Keeping Government Secrecy Safe"
20 April 2011
Wolfgang Streeck , Fernand Braudel Senior Fellow, EUI
"The Crisis in Context: Democratic Capitalism and Its Contradictions "
18 May 2011
Elhanan Helpman , Harvard University
"Trade and Labor Market Outcomes"
15 June 2011
Bruce Ackerman , Yale University
"The Decline and Fall of the American Republic"

Max Weber Lectures 2009-2010

23 September 2009
Philippe C. Schmitter , Emeritus Professor, SPS Department, EUI
"Micro-Foundations for the Science(s) of Politics"
21 October 2009
Thomas F. Cooley , New York University
"The Spirit of Capitalism: The Role of Executive Compensation in the Financial Crisis"
18 November 2009
Mireille Delmas-Marty , Collège de France, Paris
"Ordering Pluralism: In the Land of Orderly Clouds"
16 December 2009
Mary Beard , Cambridge University
"Simulacra and re-enactments: the experience of Pompeii in the 19th century"
20 January 2010 - Special Max Weber Lecture
Charles Richard Bean , Deputy Governor, Bank of England
"The Great Moderation, the Great Panic and the Great Contraction"
20 January 2010
Harold James , Princeton University/EUI
"The Financial Crisis: Can History Help Us Understand the Future?"
17 February 2010
Knud Haakonssen, University of Sussex
"Natural Law and Social Science: Some Historical Considerations"
17 March 2010
Alan Schwartz , Yale University
"Is a Contract Law Necessary?"
21 April 2010
Jon Elster , Columbia University
"Justice, Truth, Peace"
19 May 2010
Jeremy Waldron , New York University
Dignity, Rights, and Responsibilities
16 June 2010
Ernst Fehr , University of Zurich
"The Lure of Authority"

Max Weber Lectures 2008-2009

24 September 2008
Eric Maskin, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton & Nobel Prize in Economics 2007
"On Mechanism Design"
15 October 2008
Ute Frevert, Director of the Max Planck Institut, Berlin
"Does Trust have a history?”
19 November 2008
Jared Diamond , Department of Geography, UCLA
"Lessons from the Past: How Societies Have Failed or Succeeded "
17 December 2008
Torsten Persson , Director of the Institute for International Economic Studies, Stockholm
"State Capacity, Conflict and Development"
28 January 2009
Christine Jolls , Yale University Law School
"The New Behavioral Law and Economics"
18 February 2009
Gosta Esping-Andersen , Department of Political and Social Sciences, Universitat Pompeu Fabra
"How Women Changed the World"
18 March 2009
Barry Weingast , Department of Political Science, Stanford University
"Why Developing Countries Prove So Resistant to the Rule of Law"
15 April 2009 - Cancelled
Mireille Delmas-Marty , Collège de France, Paris
"Ordering Pluralism: In the Land of Orderly Clouds"
20 May 2009
David Levine , Department of Economics, Washington University in St. Louis
"Is Behavioural Economics Doomed?"
10 June 2009
Charles S. Maier , Department of History, Harvard University
"Between Social Science and Surprise: Abiding Dilemmas of Historical Explanation"

Max Weber Lectures 2007-2008

17 October 2007
Roger Guesnerie, Collège de France
"Global Warming and the Design of Climate Policies"
21 November 2007
Perry Anderson , Department of History, UCLA
"Theories of European Integration: a Geoculture"
19 December 2007
Deirdre McCloskey , Departments of History, Economics, English, and Communication, University of Illinois at Chicago
"Bourgeois Towns: How Capitalism Became Virtuous, 1600-1776"
16 January 2008
Eric Posner , University of Chicago Law School
"The Rise of Global Legalism"
13 February 2008
Carlo Ginzburg , Scuola Normale Superiore Pisa
"Fear, Reverence, Terror - Reading Hobbes Today"
5 March 2008
Dieter Grimm , Humboldt University, Berlin
"Broadcasting Regulation between National Constitutional and European Community Law"
19 March 2008
Adam Przeworski , Carroll and Milton Petrie Professor, Department of Politics, New York University
"From Representative Institutions to Democracy"
16 April 2008
Thomas J. Sargent , Department of Economics, New York University and Hoover Institution, Stanford , CA
"Evolution versus Intelligent Design in Macroeconomics"
21 May 2008
Richard Layard , Department of Economics, London School of Economics
"Social Science and Causes of Happiness and Misery"
19 June 2008
Jean Comaroff, Department of Anthropology, University of Chicago
"Nietzsche and Neopentecostalism: The World After Weber?"

Max Weber Lectures 2006-2007

4 October 2006
Fritz Scharpf, Max Planck Institute for the Studies of Societies, Cologne
"Social Science as a Vocation. Are Max Weber’s Warnings still Valid? "
4 October 2006
Odile Quintin, Director General for Education and Culture, European Commission
Opening Speech of the Max Weber Programme
18 October 2006
James J. Heckman, Department of Economics, University of Chicago
"The Economics of Human Development"
15 November 2006
Russell Hardin, Wilf Family Department of Politics, New York University
"Government without Trust "
17 January 2007
Gunther Teubner, Institut für Arbeits-, Wirtschafts- und Zivilrecht, JWG-University of Frankfurt
"Rights of Nonhumans? Computers and Animals as New Actors in Politics and Law"
14 March 2007
John Hardman Moore, Department of Economics, London School of Economics
"Partial Contracts: More is Less?"
28 March 2007
Joel Mokyr, Departments of Economics and History, Northwestern University
"The European Enlightenment, the Industrial Revolution, and Modern Economic Growth"
18 April 2007
Martti Koskenniemi, Faculty of Law, University of Helsinki
"'Not excepting the Iroqouis themselves...' Sociological Thought and International Law"
9 May 2007
Lucette Valensi , Centre d’Histoire Social de l’Islam Méditerranéen, EHESS
"The Spectre of Islamism. A Historian's Reading"
16 May 2007
Hartmut Kaelble, Department of History, Humboldt University
"The European Public Sphere"
20 June 2007
Stephen Haber , Department of Political Science & Hoover Institution, Stanford University
"Political Institutions and Financial Development: Evidence from New World Economies"