Inaugural Butlin Brothers Lecture, Professor Tim Hatton

Human Capital and the Australian Economic Miracle, 1840-1870

The inaugural lecture will be given by Professor Tim Hatton on Thursday 3 December from 6pm till 7pm at the Australian Academy of Science’s Shine Dome on the Australian National University campus, Canberra

About our Presenter

Prof Tim Hatton’s research is in economic history and applied economics. He has published extensively on the economic history of labour markets, including unemployment, poverty and migration. His research interests include the causes and effects of international migration, and immigration and asylum policy. His books include Global Migration and the World Economy: Two Centuries of Policy and Performance (MIT Press, 2005), co-authored with Jeffrey G. Williamson, and Seeking Asylum in the OECD (CEPR, 2011) . He has also published a series of papers on health and heights in Britain and Europe since the late nineteenth century and he is currently developing a project on immigration to Australia in the nineteenth century.

In addition to his emeritus appointment at the ANU, Tim Hatton is Emeritus Professor of Economics at the University of Essex in the UK. He is a Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia (ASSA) and of the Academy of Social Sciences (UK), and a Research Fellow of of the CEPR (London), CREaM (London) and the IZA (Bonn). Professor Hatton was founding editor of European Review of Economic History, published by Cambridge University Press (1994-8), President of the European Society for Population Economics (2010) and founding director of the ANU’s Centre for Economic History (2012-). In 2012, he was awarded the prestigious ‘Clio Can’ by the Cliometric Society (US).

Information

When: Thursday 3 December
Time: From 6pm until 7pm, followed by drinks and light refreshments
Cost: Open to members and non-members, free of charge
Where: In-person only - the Shine Dome, ANU, Canberra.  

Central Council Code of Conduct

Registration is essential - book below before 23 November.