The last lecture
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. One of the participants was economist Paul Heyne, author of The Economic Way of Thinking and one of the legendary teachers of economics.
Audio of Prof. Heyne’s “Last Lecture,” titled “The Moral Critics of Capitalism,” has been added to the public archive of archive.org. The talk was given February 17, 2000 in Seattle.
Ironically this was in fact Prof. Heyne’s last public lecture, as he succombed to cancer just 2 months later.
Download the full talk (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?
