Sir John Hicks Memorial Lecture

Professor Ann M. Carlos

29 April 2025

St. Hilda's College

Technological and Organizational Sophistication in North American Indigenous Economies, 1000-1500

Professor Ann M. Carlos is Emeritus Professor in the Department of Economics at the University of Colorado Boulder. After moving from Dublin to Canada for her PhD she began a career-long study of North American economic history and the economies of indigenous peoples. Her interest in the connections between flows of goods, capital and people led her also to enhance our understanding of the development of the early modern London capital market. Her scholarship has made major contributions to the field of economic history, in particular making space for groups previously largely excluded from research as economic actors.  She was president of the Economic History Association and was awarded the inaugural Alice E Murray Medal by the Centre for Economic Policy and History, Trinity College Dublin 2024.

Sir John Hicks Memorial Lecturers Since 1998

2025: Ann M. Carlos, University of Colorado Boulder (about)

2024: Joel Mokyr, Northwestern University (about)

2022: Tracy Dennison, California Institute of Technology (about)

2021: Leah Boustan, Princeton University (about)

2020: No lecture (COVID-19)

2019: Dora Costa, University of California Los Angeles (about) 

2018: Thomas Piketty, Paris School of Economics (about)

2017: Osamu Saito, Hitotsubashi University Tokyo (about)

2016: Hans-Joachim Voth, University of Zurich (about)

2015: Christina Romer, University of California Berkeley (about)

2014: Claudia Goldin, Harvard University (about)

2013: Timothy Guinnane, Yale University (about)

2012: Marc Flandreau, University of Pennsylvania (about)

2011: Kevin O'Rourke, NYU Abu Dhabi (about)

2010: Alan Taylor, University of California Davis (about)

2009: Patrick O'Brien, London School of Economics (about)

2008: Jeffrey Williamson, Harvard University and University of Wisconsin-Madison (about)

2007: Jan Luiten van Zanden, Utrecht University (about)

2006: Maxine Berg, Warwick University (about)

2005: Peter Lindert, University of California Davis (about)

2004: Naomi Lamoreaux, Yale University (about)

2003: Richard Sylla, NYU Stern (about)

2002: Gunnar Persson, University of Copenhagen (about)

2001: Larry Neal, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (about)

2000: Bob Allen, NYU Abu Dhabi (about)

1998: Cormac Ó Gráda, University College Dublin (about)