The Fall 2022 Yates Lecture featured Hilary Hoynes, Professor of Public Policy and Economics and holds the Haas Distinguished Chair in Economic Disparities at the University of California Berkeley, where she also co-directs the Berkeley Opportunity Lab. Her research focuses on poverty, inequality, food and nutrition programs, and the impacts of government tax and transfer programs on low-income families. She is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the National Academy of Social Insurance and is a Fellow of the Society of Labor Economists.

In this lecture, Professor Hoynes discusses the emerging research that examines how the social safety net affects children’s life trajectories.  The evidence shows that programs targeted toward child poverty not only have long-run benefits for families, but also constitute a great public investment.

The Fall 2018 Mary C. Parker Yates Lecture featured Mihir A. Desai, the Mizuho Financial Group Professor of Finance at Harvard Business School and a Professor of Law at Harvard Law School.  He is the author of The Wisdom of Finance, which explores the intersection between finance and the humanities, a frequent contributor to popular media such as the New York Times, Financial Times, and NPR, and is considered a leading expert on corporate tax reform.

US states and localities spend $45 billion annually on tax incentives and other programs intended to spur economic development. Countries around the world similarly offer tax holidays, investment credits, and other preferential tax treatments in a bid to promote investment and create jobs. Do these policies work? At what cost? Are there better and worse ways to spur local economic growth and productivity gains? What might international practitioners learn from their state and local counterparts and vice versa? This one-day conference co-sponsored by the American Tax Policy Institute and the Murphy Institute at Tulane University explored these questions from a variety of perspectives in international and state and local taxation as well as regional and economic growth.

Watch Executive Director Steve Sheffrin moderate the panel, State and Local Tax Incentives in the United States: Overview and Assessment, which features Tulane Assistant Professor of Economics Patrick Button, along with Timothy Bartik of the W.E. Upjohn Institute and Carlianne Patrick of Georgia State University.

Slides from the Murphy Institute's 2017 Yates Lecture: Anil Kashyap's "Macroprudential Regulation: Will it Prevent Financial Crises?"

Sarah Buss, Professor of Philosophy at the University of Michigan, interviewed Gary Watson, Provost Professor of Law and Philosophy at the University of Southern California, on November 3, 2016. The interview served as the inaugural event of "Watson Fest" a conference dedicated to works of Gary Watson. The conference, organized by David Shomaker, Justin Coates, and Neal Tognazinni, took place in New Orleans from November 3 to 5, 2016, and was sponsored by Murphy Institute's Center for Ethics and Public Affairs at Tulane University.

This lecture was hosted by the Murphy Institute's Center for Ethics and Public Affairs at Tulane University on February 3, 2017.

Professor Flanagan presented this lecture at Tulane University on January 27, 2017

Professor Flanagan is the James B. Duke Professor of Philosophy at Duke University where he also holds appointments in Psychology and Neurobiology.  He is the author of ten books, including Consciousness Reconsidered (MIT Press, 1992), Self Expressions: Mind, Morals and the Meaning of Life (Oxford University Press, 1996), and, most recently, The Geography of Morals: Varieties of Moral Possibility (Oxford University Press).

Professor Peri presented the Fall 2016 Yates Lecture at Tulane University on November 14, 2016.

Jacob T. Levy presented this lecture on at Tulane University on October 15, 2015.

Lawrence Katz gave the Murphy Institute's Spring 2015 Yates Lecture at Tulane University on March 5, 2015.

The Murphy Institute at Tulane University and the Campaign to Fix the Debt co-sponsored a conference on the federal debt.  The panel focused on the instability in our budget and economic future created by our long-run debt problem, and what realistic strategies are available to enable our political system to be able to handle this challenge. 

This lecture was hosted by the Murphy Institute at Tulane University on Friday, April 4, 2014.

This lecture was hosted by the Murphy Institute's Center for Ethics and Public Affairs at Tulane University on February 14, 2014.

This lecture was hosted by the Murphy Institute's Center for Ethics and Public Affairs at Tulane University on January 31, 2014.

This lecture was hosted by the Murphy Institute's Center for Ethics and Public Affairs at Tulane University on November 15, 2013.

This lecture was hosted by the Murphy Institute at Tulane University October 3, 2013.

This Yates lecture was hosted by the Murphy Institute at Tulane University on Tuesday, March 12, 2013.