Distinguished economist - Professor Oded Galor from Brown University, the seventh oldest University in the USA, located in Providence, Rhode Island, will present the Copernican Lecture in the series of the Rector’s Lectures in Torun on Oct. 17, 2019. The title of his interdisciplinary lecture is The Biogeographical Roots of the Wealth of Nations.
Professor Oded Galor is interested in the economic growth and development, economic inequalities, demography, evolutionary economics and socio-economic geography. He is the author of Unified Growth Theory and the editor-in chief of the Journal of Economic Growth which is among the TOP10 of the economic journals in the world.