Spreading Prosperity and Resisting Economic Divergence: The Significance of Richard Snape’s Academic Legacy

Richard Snape Lecture

On 8 November 2004, Anne Krueger gave the second Richard Snape Lecture, Spreading prosperity and resisting economic divergence: The significance of Richard Snape’s academic legacy, at the Productivity Commission's office in Melbourne. It was released on 16 March 2005.

Anne Krueger has been the First Deputy Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund since 1 September 2001. Ms Krueger was the Herald L. and Caroline L. Ritch Professor in Humanities and Sciences in the Department of Economics at Stanford University and a Senior Fellow of the Hoover Institution. She is a Distinguished Fellow and past President of the American Economic Association, a member of the National Academy of Sciences, and a Research Associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research.

Richard Hal Snape was Deputy Chairman of the Productivity Commission and Emeritus Professor of Monash University. He was a Board Member of the Australian Research Council, Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia and a Distinguished Fellow of the Economic Society of Australia.