Sixth Richard Goode Lecture: Remaking the Post-COVID World

December 4, 2020

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) will hold its sixth annual Richard Goode Lecture on December 4, 2020. The Richard Goode Lecture is an annual event to anticipate and discuss policy issues and debates. It is hosted by the Fiscal Affairs Department and calls on top academics to contribute in front of a broad audience of policy makers, academics, and representatives from international organizations.

The theme of this year’s seminar is “Remaking the Post-COVID World” presented by Professor Daron Acemoglu. This lecture will examine the impact of technological change and automation in industrialized nations, which has caused a huge increase in inequality between capital and labor and between high- and low-education workers, disparities which have now been further deepened by COVID-19.

Professor Acemoglu is an Institute Professor at MIT and an elected fellow of the National Academy of Sciences, the Turkish Academy of Sciences, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the Econometric Society, the European Economic Association, and the Society of Labor Economists. 

After his presentation, Professor Acemoglu and the Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva will have a brief conversation on the topic. Send your questions for the speaker to FADRG@imf.org.

**The event will be livestreamed to the public on IMF.org/live and on this page.**

AGENDA

Wednesday, December 4, 2020

10:30 – 10:40 AM

Welcome Remarks by Kristalina Georgieva, Managing Director, IMF   

10:40 – 11:25 AM

Presentation by Professor Daron Acemoglu, MIT   

Daron AcemogluDaron Acemoglu is an Institute Professor at MIT and an elected fellow of the National Academy of Sciences, the Turkish Academy of Sciences, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the Econometric Society, the European Economic Association, and the Society of Labor Economists.

He is the author of five books, including Why Nations Fail: Power, Prosperity, and Poverty and The Narrow Corridor: States, Societies, and the Fate of Liberty (both with James A. Robinson). His academic work covers a wide range of areas, including political economy, economic development, economic growth, inequality, labor economics and economics of networks.

Daron Acemoglu has received the inaugural T. W. Shultz Prize from the University of Chicago in 2004, and the inaugural Sherwin Rosen Award for outstanding contribution to labor economics in 2004, Distinguished Science Award from the Turkish Sciences Association in 2006, the John von Neumann Award, Rajk College, Budapest in 2007, the Carnegie Fellowship in 2017, the Jean-Jacques Laffont Prize in 2018, and the Global Economy Prize in 2019.

He was awarded the John Bates Clark Medal in 2005, the Erwin Plein Nemmers Prize in 2012, and the 2016 BBVA Frontiers of Knowledge Award.

He holds Honorary Doctorates from the University of Utrecht, the Bosporus University, University of Athens, Bilkent University, the University of Bath, the Ecole Normale Superieure, Saclay Paris, and the London Business School.

 

11:25 AM – 11:35 PM

Conversation between Kristalina Georgieva and Professor Acemoglu  

11:35 AM – 12:00 PM

Audience Q & A. Questions for the speaker can be sent before or during the event to FADRG@imf.org.