Professor James Bradford DeLong
28 April 2026
All Souls College
Theories of Economic History
Professor James Bradford DeLong is professor of economics at U.C. Berkeley, a research associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research, a weblogger at the Washington Center for Equitable Growth, and a fellow of the Institute for New Economic Thinking. He received his B.A. and Ph.D. from Harvard University in 1982 and 1987. He joined UC Berkeley as an associate professor in 1993 and became a full professor in 1997.
Sir John Hicks Memorial Lecturers Since 1998
2026: James Bradford DeLong, University of California (about)
2025: Ann M. Carlos, University of Colorado Boulder (about)
2024: Joel Mokyr, Northwestern University (about)
2023: Leandro Prados de la Escosura, Universidad Carlos III, Madrid (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)
1999: Peter Temin, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (
about)
1998: Cormac Ó Gráda, University College Dublin (about)
