The Last Lecture: Paul Heyne's "The Moral Critics of Capitalism"
If you were asked to give your last public lecture — to summarize the most important ideas of your lifetime — what would you talk about?
That was the theme of a series of public lectures held at the University of Washington in 2000, where I was an undergraduate at the time. One of the participants was economist Paul Heyne, author of The Economic Way of Thinking, one of the legendary teachers of economics, and a friend and mentor of mine.
Paul’s lecture was given February 17, 2000 in Seattle. After the talk — which I remember distinctly as my 24th birthday — I stopped by his office for an audio tape. He looked very tired. That’s the day I learned he’d been diagnosed with cancer. That ironically turned out to be his “last lecture,” as he succumbed to cancer just 2 months later.
Years later, I managed to convert the audio into an MP3 file, and added it to the audio archive at archive.org. You can download the full talk, “The Moral Critics of Capitalism,” (30 minutes) and Q&A session (20 minutes) here:
Full lecture (MP3 — 11.7MB).
Q&A session (MP3 — 9MB)
Posted by Andrew on Monday February 14, 2005 | Feedback?
