A distinguished economist - Professor Oded Galor from Brown University, the seventh oldest University in the USA, located in Providence, Rhode Island, will present Rector’s Lecture in Toruń on October 17th, 2019 at 11.30 a.m.
The lecture will be held in the Artus Court – a historical building in the heart of the Old Town. The title of his interdisciplinary lecture isThe Biogeographical Roots of the Wealth of Nations. Professor Oded Galor’s interests cover such issues as the economic growth and development, economic inequalities, demography, evolutionary economics and socio-economic geography. He is the author of Unified Growth Theory (2011) and the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Economic Growth, which is included in the TOP10 list of the economic journals in the world. The accompanying event will be a piano concert performed by Professor Tadeusz Trzaskalik from the University of Economics in Katowice.
