: 19 May: Eric Maskin, a Nobel Prize winner, will give a public lectureentitled “How should we elect presidents?”

The lecture will be held in the framework of the Zvi Griliches Memorial Lectures at the New Economic School in Moscow (NES).

In 2001, the International Advisory Board of the NES with the full approval of the entire NES community decided to establish an annual series of lectures in economics in memory of Zvi Griliches. The Zvi Griliches Memorial Lectures are presented by leading scholars and are open to the economic community and the general public in Russia.

Zvi Griliches was one of the founders of the NES in Moscow and one of its main academic architects. Dr. Griliches served as a member of the International Advisory Board of the NES from its inception and often visited the NES. He helped shape the program in econometrics and taught econometrics at the NES to several generations of students.
Dr. Griliches also initiated foreign professors' visits to the NES. His recommendations helped many of the best NES graduates enter leading Western universities for their PhD programs. He was a direct participant and inspiration in establishing the NES.

In previous years, the Zvi Griliches Distinguished Lectures were delivered by:

Eric Maskin–Albert O. Hirschman Professor, School of Social Science, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton University. Winner of the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2007.

The lecture will be held 19 May 2010 at 16:30
Central Economic Mathematical Institute, Room 320,
47 Nakhimovsky Prospect
(metro station Profsoyusnaya, first car from the center)
Telephone: 956-9508

Free admission
Registration is at the NES site

The lecture will be held in English with simultaneous translation.
A personal identification document is required for using the simultaneous translation equipment.

The lecture is organized by the New Economic School and Dmitry Zimin's Dynasty Foundation.
About other public lectures of the Dynasty Foundation

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