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Upton Scholar
Promoting the wealth and well-being of nations.
Named for economist and sixth Beloit College President Miller Upton, the Upton Forum on the Wealth and Well-Being of Nations is Beloit’s premier residency program in economics, featuring panel discussions and a keynote address by the Upton Scholar.
Though the forum events last for only one week, students are immersed in the theories and work of the Upton Scholar well before the slated campus visit. Seniors in the department of economics and management participate in a seminar course built around the ideas and research of that year’s Upton Scholar, so that they will be able to engage the scholar on a deeper level.
Residents

James Heckman
2019
Professor of Economics and Director of the Center for the Economics of Human Development at the University of Chicago.

Dani Rodrik
2018
Professor of International Political Economy at Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government.

Michael Greenstone
2017
Previous chief economist for President Barack Obama’s Council of Economic Advisers.

Deirdre Nansen McCloskey
2016
A well-known economist and historian and rhetorician, she has written 17 books and around 400 scholarly pieces on topics ranging from technical economics and statistical theory to transgender advocacy and the ethics of the bourgeois virtues.

Yasheng Huang
2015
The International Program Professor in Chinese Economy and Business, Professor of Global Economics and Management, and Associate Dean for International Programs and Action Learning at the MIT Sloan School of Management.

Robert N. Stavins
2014
One of the world’s leading thinkers on climate change policy whose research focuses on diverse areas of environmental economics and policy.

James D. Gwartney
2013
The co-author of the annual report, Economic Freedom of the World and holds the Gus A. Stavros Eminent Scholar Chair at Florida State University, where he directs the Stavros Center for the Advancement of Free Enterprise and Economic Education.

Timur Kuran
2012
professor of economics and political science and the Gorter Family Professor of Islamic Studies at Duke University.

Joel Mokyr
2011
Specializes in economic history and the economics of technological change and population change, is the Robert H. Strotz Professor of Arts and Sciences and Professor of Economics and History at Northwestern University.

Elinor Ostrom
2011
Became the first woman to win the Nobel Prize in economics when she received the honor and was a longtime faculty member at Indiana University-Bloomington.

Israel Kirzner
2010
Emeritus Professor of Economics at New York University and a leading figure in the Austrian school of economics.

Hernando de Soto
2009
President of the Institute for Liberty and Democracy in Lima, Peru Focusing on economic reforms that will encourage capital formation among the poor in Africa, Asia, Latin America, the Middle East, and the former Soviet bloc.

Douglass North
2008
Winner of the 1993 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences and acted as economic consultant to the governments of Russia, Argentina, Peru, and the Czech Republic.