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Geary Lecture Series

Dr Roy Geary, 1896 - 1983
Dr Roy Geary, 1896 - 1983

The Geary lecture is organised each year by the ESRI and honours Dr R. C. Geary (1896 –1983), the first Director of the Institute. Dr Geary is regarded as the most eminent Irish statistician of the twentieth century. Lectures have been given by some of the world’s foremost scholars in the fields of economics, statistics and sociology, including a number of Nobel Prize winners. 1996 was the Centenary of Geary's birth, and in honour of this a publication relating to Geary's life and work was published, the first chapter of which constitutes the 1996 Geary Lecture. Link to details of publication "Roy Geary, 1896-1983: Irish Statistician - Centenary Lecture by John E. Spencer and Associated Papers".

Set out below is a list of all the Geary Lectures since 1967, with links to further details. Not all the lectures are currently available to download from our website, but we are in the process of scanning and uploading each paper. The papers should also be available in college libraries.

For further information about the Geary Lectures, please contact the ESRI on admin@esri.ie.

The 2009 ESRI Geary Lecture: "The Challenge of Tax Reform and Expanding the Tax Base", by  Professor James Poterba, National Bureau of Economic Research, took place on 28 May 2009. Click here for further details.

The Entrepreneurial Society
Geary Lecture Series 37
Audretsch, David.
13/11/2008.

Health in an Unequal World: A Matter of Social Justice
Geary Lecture Series 36
Marmot, Michael.
03/12/2007

Making Globalization Work
Geary Lecture Series 35
Stiglitz, Joseph E.
20/12/2008. 

Income and Child Well-Being
Geary Lecture Series 34   
Duncan, G J.
01/02/06  

Funding The Millenium Development Goals
Geary Lecture Series 33
Atkinson, A. B.
01/03/05  

Time and the Socioeconomic Atom
Geary Lecture Series 32
Gershuny, J.
01/03/04  

Economic Problems of Ireland in Europe 
Geary Lecture Series 31
Feldstein, Martin.
01/01/01.
Also incorporating 2 other Papers The Cost and Distribution of Tax Expenditure on Occupational Pensions in Ireland by G Hughes and The National Pensions Reserve Fund: Pitfalls and Opportunities by Philip R Lane).

Official Statistics: Above and Below the Public Debate
Geary Lecture Series 30   
Holt, Tim.   
01/01/99  

Causation, Statistics and Sociology
Geary Lecture Series 29
Goldthorpe, John H.
01/01/98  

Revisiting European Unemployment : Unemployment, Capital Accumulation and Factor Prices
Geary Lecture Series 28
Blanchard, Olivier.
01/01/98  

R. C. Geary: His Life and Work
Geary Lecture Series 27
Spencer, John E.
01/01/97

The Time is Never Ripe: The Repeated Defeat of Universal Health Insurance in the 20th Century United States
Geary Lecture Series 26
Skocpol, Theda. 
01/01/95  

Economics, Time and Age
Geary Lecture Series 25
Posner, Richard A.
01/01/94  

Globalisation: The Challenge for National Economic Regimes
Geary Lecture Series 24
Dunning, John H.
01/01/93 

Welfare State Development in Europe since 1930: Ireland in a Comparative Perspective
Geary Lecture Series 23
Korpi, Walter.
01/01/92 

Growth, The Market and Dissemination of Technology
Geary Lecture Series 22
Baumol, William J.
01/01/91  

Ireland and Europe's New Money
Geary Lecture Series 21
Dornbusch, Rudiger.
01/01/90  

The Rise and Decline of Nations: Where does Ireland Fit in? (not published)
Geary Lecture Series 20
Olsen, Mancur.
01/01/89  

A Theory of the Rate of Growth of the Demand for Labour in the Long Run
Geary Lecture Series 19
Scott, Maurice F. G.
01/01/88  

Social Theory and Problems of Macroeconomics
Geary Lecture Series 18
Giddens, Anthony.
01/01/86  

An Economic Analysis of the Family
Geary Lecture Series 17 
Becker, Gary S.
01/01/85  

Towards More Rational Decisions on Criminals
Geary Lecture Series 16   
Glaser, Daniel.   
01/01/83  

Poor, Relatively Speaking
Geary Lecture Series 15   
Sen, Amartya K.   
01/01/82  

Modernisation and Religion
Geary Lecture Series 14   
Berger, P.L.   
01/01/81  

The Story of a Social Experiment and some Reflections
Geary Lecture Series 13   
Solow, Robert M.
01/01/80  

The Dilemmas of a Socialist Economy: The Hungarian Experience
Geary Lecture Series 12
Kornai, Janos.
01/01/79  

Political and Institutional Economics
Geary Lecture Series 11   
Myrdal, Gunnar.   
01/01/78  

Official Statisticians and Econometricians in the Present-Day World
Geary Lecture Series 10   
Malinvaud, E.   
01/01/77  

British Economic Growth 1951-1973: Success or Failure?
Geary Lecture Series 9   
Matthews, R. C. O.   
01/01/76  

The Chronic Crisis and Structural Analysis in Sociology
Geary Lecture Series 8   
Merton, R. K.   
01/01/75  

The Dark Side of the Dialectic: Toward a New Objectivity
Geary Lecture Series 7   
Gouldner, A.W.   
01/01/74  

Econometric Forecasting from Lagged Relationships
Geary Lecture Series 6   
Kendall, M. G.   
01/01/73  

An Interdisciplinary Approach to the Measurement of Utility or Welfare
Geary Lecture Series 5   
Tinbergen, J.   
01/01/72  

The Psychosonomics of Rising Prices
Geary Lecture Series 4   
Turner, H. A.   
01/01/71  

The Dual Career Family
Geary Lecture Series 3   
Rapoport, Rhona; Rapoport, Robert.   
01/01/70 

Computers, Statistics and Planning - Systems or Chaos?
Geary Lecture Series 2   
Foster, F. G.   
01/01/68  

A Simple Approach to Macro-economic Dynamics
Geary Lecture Series 1   
Allen, R. D. G.   
01/01/67