Distinguished Lecture on Globalization
Free Markets No More? How to Ensure a Successful Return for Industrial Policy
The lecture will be held on: 14 October 2025 (Tuesday), 12:15-1:30pm EST.
Registration link: dartgo.org/anneharrison
Venue: Tseng classroom, Tuck School of Business. Or: via Zoom.
History is full of examples of successful and unsuccessful industrial policies. The critical question is not whether to engage in such policies but how they are designed and implemented. Industrial policy can work, but only with strict adherence to sensible guidelines based on sound economic practice, political economy considerations, and historical context. In this lecture I review the necessary foundation for a successful industrial policy. We incorporate both recent theory and evidence, as well as country-specific examples drawn from China, India, and the United States.
About the speaker:
Ann E. Harrison is a renowned economist and one of the most highly cited scholars on foreign investment and multinational firms. She served as the 15th dean of the Haas School of Business and was the second woman to lead the school since its founding in 1898. Harrison is a Life Member of the Council of Foreign Relations, as well as a member of the National Bureau of Economic Research. She serves on a number of Boards, including UNPRME, the Berkeley Haas Advisory Board, and the board of the French business school EDHEC.
Organized by: The Michael G. Fisch 1983 Academic Cluster on Globalization. With support from the International Security and Economics Initiative at the Davidson Institute, Dickey Center for International Understanding; Department of Economics; Department of Government; and Tuck School of Business.
Previous Lectures
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2022: Sergei Guriev spoke on "Spin Dictators: Globalization and the Changing Face of Tyranny in the 21st Century". Sergei Guriev is the Provost and a Professor of Economics at Sciences Po, Paris. He is a former Rector of the New Economic School in Moscow (2004-2013) and former Chief Economist of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD). (You can watch the lecture: here.)
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