Dean’s Lecture: The Good Life after the Age of Growth
Location:
TBC
Date/time
Wed 7 October 2026
17:00-18:30
This year’s Dean’s Lecture is presented by Dean’s Fellow Daniel Markovits on the topic of The Good Life after the Age of Growth.
About the speaker
Daniel Markovits is the Guido Calabresi Professor of Law at Yale Law School and the Founding Director of the Center for the Study of Private Law. Professor Markovits publishes widely and in a range of disciplines, including law, philosophy, and economics. His writings have appeared in Science, The American Economic Review, The Yale Law Journal, The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, The New York Times, The Washington Post, Time, and The Atlantic. In 2021, Prospect Magazine named him to its list of the world’s top 50 thinkers. His last book, The Meritocracy Trap (Penguin Press, 2019), develops a sustained attack on American meritocracy. He is also working on a new book, tentatively called The Good Life after the Age of Growth.