Henry George Lecture at University of Scranton – Scranton Times-Tribune

The University of Scranton’s Fall Henry George Lecture, an annual presentation that has featured 13 Nobel Prize winners, recently welcomed William Easterly, Ph.D., professor of economics and co-director of the Development Research Institute at New York University, as its featured speaker. Easterly presented, “Violent Saviors: Development Lessons from the History of Colonialism,” on Oct. 21 at Scranton’s DeNaples Center. Members of the Department of Economics, Finance and International Business, from left: John A. Ruddy, D.P.S.; Iordanis Petsas, Ph.D.; Easterly; Pedro Monteiro, Ph.D.; Anna Jaskiewicz, Ph.D., and Aram Balagyozyan, Ph.D.