Contemporary, 2010-26 (160 photos)
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ASSA MEETINGS, PHILADELPHIA, JANUARY 4, 2026
Erik Brynjolfsson and Ben Jones
PRESS CONFERENCE ON THE ANNOUNCEMENT DAY OF JOEL MOKYR’S NOBEL PRIZE, CAHN AUDITORIUM, NORTHWESTERN
Stage scene, audience out of sight to left of cameras
Media coverage
Joel Mokyr with Interim President Henry Bienen looking on
ACADEMIC ADVISORY COUNCIL OF THE CHICAGO FED, OCTOBER 10, 2025
Austan Goolsbee, President of the Chicago Fed
Jan Eberly, 2026 President-Elect of the AEA
ACADEMIC ADVISORY COUNCIL OF THE CHICAGO FED, MAY 30, 2025
Kathy Abraham, 2025 President-Elect of the AEA
Alan Auerbach
ROBERT J. GORDON RETIREMENT CONFERENCE, APRIL 25, 2025
Mark Watson and Joel Mokyr (session chair)
Mark Watson in NU Economics Department Seminar Room
Mark Watson from back of the room
Joel Mokyr’s presentation on “Bob Gordon as Economic Historian”
Barry Eichengreen
Gauti Eggertsson
The “Three Marshall Scholars”: Jim Poterba, RJG, and Ben Friedman at Post-Conference Reception
RJG and Julie after the Conference Dinner
BROOKINGS PAPERS ON ECONOMIC ACTIVITY, MARCH 28, 2025
JECO MEETINGS, LYON FRANCE, NOVEMBER 5-7, 2024
Phillippe Aghion
Phillippe Aghion and RJG
BIES LECTURE, NORTHWESTERN, APRIL 25, 2024
Gita Gopinath, Deputy Managing Director of the IMF
Larry Christiano
BROOKINGS PANEL ON ECONOMIC ACTIVITY, SEPTEMBER 28, 2023
Justin Wolfers, Jim Stock, Jason Furman
SOCIAL SCIENCE HISTORY ASSOCIATION MEETINGS, CHICAGO, NOVEMBER 19, 2022
RETIREMENT DINNER FOR CHARLES EVANS AS PRESIDENT OF THE CHICAGO FED, NOVEMBER 17, 2022
Jerome Powell, Chair of the Fed
John Williams, President of the NY Fed
Mary Daly, President of the SF Fed
Marty Eichenbaum
NOBEL PRIZE LUNCHEON, ASSA MEETINGS, SAN DIEGO, January 4, 2020
Chad Jones speaking, with Ben Bernanke and Bill Nordhaus
Ben Bernanke and Janet Yellen
INTERNATIONAL PRODUCTIVITY MONITOR DINNER, SAN DIEGO, JANUARY 3, 2020
Barbara Fraumeni presents a gift to Dale Jorgenson
NORTHWESTERN UNDERGRADUATE AWARDS LUNCHEON, JUNE 21, 2019
Northwestern University Bies Lecture, April 18, 2019
Thomas Piketty, Bies Lecturer, with Mark Witte
American Economic Association Meetings, Atlanta, January 4-5, 2019
Joel Mokyr receives Distinguished Fellow Award from Ben Bernanke
Jason Furman and Robert Shiller
Daron Acemoglu
Gilbert Cette
Dale Jorgenson
Marshall Reinsdorf
National Association of Business Economists, NBER Session, September 30, 2018
Brookings Panel on Economic Activity, September 13-14, 2018
Rick Mishkin and Alan Blinder
Janet Yellen, Stan Fischer, Ben Bernanke, and Olivier Blanchard
LUISS University, Rome, May 4, 2018
Brookings Panel on Economic Activity, Washington, September 7, 2017
Bill Brainard
Justin Wolfers, Alan Blinder, and Susan Collins
ECB Economic Forum, Sintra Portugal, June 26, 2017
Microsoft CEO Summit, Redmond WA, May 17, 2017
In Bill Gates’ house with Warren Buffett and Bill Gates
Warren Buffett (left) and Patrick Collison (right, founder:CEO of Stripe)
Banque de France Conference on Secular Stagnation and Growth Measurement, January 16, 2017
Philippe Aghion
Gilbert Cette
John Fernald
Jordi Gali
Catherine Mann
Brookings Panel on Economic Activity, September 15, 2016
Betsey Stevenson, Ben Bernanke, Bob Hall, and Justin Wolfers
Hyannis Airport and Martha’s Vineyard, July 17, 2015
Bob Solow
Larry Summers
With Allen Sinai
ECB Forum on Central Banking, Sintra, Portugal, May 22-23, 2015
Larry Summers
Mario Draghi, President of the ECB
Mario Draghi, Stan Fischer, and Mark Carney
Mark Carney, Governor of the Bank of England
Brookings Panel on Economic Activity, March 19-20, 2015
Angus Deaton
George Akerlof
Jan Eberly
John Haltiwanger
Justin Wolfers
Martin Baily and Robert Solow
Olivier Blanchard
Robert Solow, discussant at age 90
Marty Eichenbaum 60th Birthday Conference, Chicago Fed, October 9, 2014
John Leahy, Marty Eichenbaum, Sergio Rebelo, Lars Hansen
Brookings Panel on Economic Activity, March 20-21, 2014
Ben Bernanke and Paul Krugman, co-discussants of a paper on Japan
Justin Wolfers and David Romer (organizers) and Alan Blinder
Bank of Korea Conference, June 2-3, 2014
Barry Eichengreen
Dan Sullivan and Joel Mokyr at Tea Ceremony
Joel Mokyr at mask-making class
Ricardo Caballero
RJG at mask-making class
Robert Barro
Tom Sargent
TED Conference, Long Beach, February 26, 2013
RJG in front of wall of speaker photos
G30 Meeting, NY Fed, December 5-6, 2013
HalVarian, Chief Economist of Google
Ken Rogoff
Marty Feldstein
William Dudley (President of the NY Fed) and Timothy Geithner
Brookings Panel dinner, Washington, March 21, 2013
Alan Krueger (the dinner speaker and Chair of the CEA), David Romer, and Justin Wolfers
Ben Friedman, Alan Greenspan, and Richard Cooper
AEA Meetings, San Diego, January 5, 2013
London lunch, May 27, 2012
Richard Portes (Founder and President of CEPR) and Julie Gordon
Launch of LIGEP Report on Productivity, LUISS University in Rome, October 26, 2012
Harvard 50th Reunion, Cambridge, May 22, 2012
First New York Times Dealbook Conference, NYT Conference Center, New York, December 11, 2012
Andrew Ross Sorkin, editor of the Dealbook section
David Leonhardt interviews Paul Krugman
James Glassman, Chief U.S. Economist of J.P. Morgan Chase, RJG student, NU PhD 1978
Lloyd Blankfein, CEO of Goldman Sachs, with Arthur O. Sulzberger, Jr., Publisher and Chairman of the NYT
Sorkin interviews Blankfein
Nobel Prize Luncheon at ASSA Meetings, Chicago, January 7, 2012
EPS Dinner in Honor of Robert J. Gordon at the ASSA Meetings, Chicago, January 7, 2012
Bob Coen (Photo by Jim Poterba)
Bob Hall
Erik Brynjolfsson (Photo by Jim Poterba)
Julie Gordon, Bob Hall, and RJG (Photo by Jim Poterba)
Richard Parker (Photo by Jim Poterba)
Jamie Galbraith, RJG, Jim Poterba (all sharing in common that they were Marshall Scholars) (Photo by Erik Brynjolfsson)
RJG Giving Speech 1 (Photo by Jim Poterba)
RJG Giving Speech 2 (Photo by Jim Poterba)
Conference to Celebrate the 100th Anniversary of Milton Friedman’s Birth, Booth School of Business, November 9, 2012
Dinner speech by Gary Becker
Reception in the atrium
Brookings Panel on Economic Activity, September 14, 2012
James Sullivan
Robert Shiller and Martin Feldstein
MIT 150th Anniversary Celebration: Conference on Economics and Finance, 2011
Christy Romer and Peter Diamond
Hal Varian and Bob Hall
Olivier Blanchard
Ricardo Caballero, Olivier Blanchard, Pedro Aspe, RJG, Christy Romer, Greg Mankiw
IMF Conference on Macro and Growth Policies in the Wake of the Crisis, Washington, March 7-8, 2011
Dani Rodrik
Dominique Strauss-Kahn again, somewhat unkempt after a late-arriving overnight flight from Brazil
Dominique Strauss-Kahn avant le deluge
Joe Stiglitz in foreground, background Olivier Blanchard talking to Adam Pozen
Joe Stiglitz
Paul Romer
Denver ASSA Meeting, Private Party in President’s Suite, January 8, 2011
Chad Jones
Dale Jorgenson and Lars Hansen
Valerie Ramey and John Taylor
Swiss National Bank Annual Research Conference, Zurich, September 24-25, 2010
NBER Public Finance Group Research Meeting, April 8, 2010
Jim Poterba, Roger Gordon, and Peter Diamond
NBER Business Cycle Dating Committee Meeting, April 8, 2010
Clockwise: RJG, Jim Stock, Bob Hall, Jeff Frankel, Marty Feldstein, Mark Watson, and Jim Poterba
Lunchtime Party for LUISS University Group on Economic Policy (LIGEP), Rome, May 2, 2010
Jean-Paul Fitoussi dances with his wife Annie
Ned Phelps dances with his wife Viviana
Cournot Center Conference What’s Right with Macroeconomics, Paris, December 2-3, 2010
Bob Solow (age 86)
Wendy Carlin and Bob Solow
Wendy Carlin
Conference in Rome to Launch LIGEP Report After the Crisis: The Way Ahead, October 29, 2010
Chris Pissarides, Jean-Paul Fitoussi, Ned Phelps, RJG
Chris Pissarides
Giorgio di Giorgio, Etienne Wasmer, Chris Pissarides, Jean-Paul Fitoussi, Ned Phelps, RJG, Stefano Micossi
Photo shoot of Chris Pissarides, who had won the Nobel Prize two weeks before
CREI-CEPR Conference Cornucopia Quantified, Co-organized by Joachim Voth and RJG, Barcelona, May 21-22, 2010
Jerry Hausman, Joachim Voth, Carol Corrado, and Ana Aizcorbe
Jerry Hausman
Joel Mokyr
RJG
Brookings Papers on Economic Activity, March 18-19, 2010
Alan Blinder and Alan Greenspan
Alan Greenspan
Ben Friedman and Greg Mankiw
Ben Friedman
Chris Sims
David Romer and Justin Wolfers
Matt Shapiro and Justin Wolfers with Matilda
Rob Shimer and Larry Katz
Steve Davis
ASSA Meetings, Atlanta, January 3-5, 2010
(Back row) Merton, Hall, Poterba. (Front row) Dixit, Diamond, Solow
All six, including Bob Hall hidden behind the podium
Avinash Dixit and Peter Diamond
Avinash Dixit, Peter Diamond, and Bob Solow
Avinash Dixit
Bob Solow with Samuelson image on screen
Bob Solow
Jim Poterba and Robert Merton
Jim Poterba
Robert J. Barro
Robert Merton
Steve Davis
Valerie Ramey