Graz Schumpeter Lectures
The Graz Schumpeter Society organizes this annual conference series in which internationally renowned scientists give lectures. The lectures are named after one of the great economists and social scientists of this century, Joseph Alois Schumpeter (1883-1950), who was a member of the University of Graz from 1911 to 1920.
The lectures of each conference will be published in the series "The Graz Schumpeter Lectures" by Routledge (London).
Graz Schumpeter Lectures 2025
The latest Graz Schumpeter Lectures took place from 17 to 19 March 2025. The lecturer was Prof Eric S. Maskin (Harvard University), Nobel Memorial Prize Laureate in Economics 2007.
About the speaker
Eric Maskin is the Adams University Professor and Professor of Economics and Mathematics at Harvard. He has made contributions to game theory, contract theory, social choice theory, political economy, and other areas of economics.
He received his A.B. and Ph.D. from Harvard and was a postdoctoral fellow at Jesus College, Cambridge University. He was a faculty member at MIT from 1977-1984, Harvard from 1985- 2000, and the Institute for Advanced Study from 2000-2011. He rejoined the Harvard faculty in 2012. In 2007, he was awarded the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics (with L. Hurwicz and R. Myerson) for laying the foundations of mechanism design theory.