Downing Lectures

Richard Downing was the Ritchie Chair Professor of Research in Economics at the University of Melbourne from 1954 until 1975.

He made a significant contribution to economic research and guided and mentored the research interests of other staff and his students. For 20 years he edited the Economics Record and played a prominent part in the founding of the Institute of Applied Economic and Social Research.

During this time Richard Downing also served as assistant Vice Chancellor and as Chairman of Ormond College Council.

Downing Lecture Series

• 2012: "The Great Recession and the Distribution of Household Income" - Professor John Micklewright, University of London
• 2011: "Empirical Evidence and Tax Reform: Lessons from the Mirrless Review" - Professor Richard Blundell, University College, London
• 2010: "Family Economics and the Second Demographic Transition" - Professor Shelley Lundberg, University of Washington, USA
• 2009: "Spaghetti unravelled: how income varies with age" - Professor Stephen Jenkins, University of Essex, UK

If you want access past recorded public Lectures please click on FBE Past public lectures