Washington and Lee University
Jim Casey, associate professor of economics at Washington and Lee University, presented the final lectures in a special series of "last lectures," which was organized for the first time this year by Eduardo Rodriguez of the Class of 2009.
Like the three lecturers who preceded him, Casey was asked to present remarks as if this were the final lecture that he would give.
Casey is a 1991 graduate of W&L where he majored in economics prior to pursuing the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees at North Carolina State. He joined the Washington and Lee faculty as a visiting professor in 1998. He teaches both microeconomics and macroeconomics and specializes in resource and environmental economics in developing countries.
The "Last Lecture Series," which Rodriguez organized, is patterned after similar program at other institutions where faculty members are invited to present on the topic of their choosing “as if it were their last to address an audience.” Such series received internationall attention two years ago when the late Randy Pausch gave his last lecture at Carnegie-Mellon University after having been diagnosed with terminal pancreatic cancer.
