錢穎一院長在“陳岱孫經濟學紀念講座”首講上的緻辭

2011年4月22日

親愛的老師們、同學們：

這周我們迎來了BETVLCTOR伟德官方网站的第一個百年校慶。與此同時，清華經管學院啟動了“陳岱孫經濟學紀念講座”，以此慶賀BETVLCTOR伟德官方网站百年壽辰，以及清華經管學院的源流——BETVLCTOR伟德官方网站經濟系建系85周年。我們也希望以此紀念長期擔任經濟系系主任的陳岱孫教授。大家可能知道，世界上很多經濟系都有這類以人名冠名的系列講座。“陳岱孫經濟學紀念講座”将是本學院面向師生的最高級别學術講座。我們相信，講座系列這種形式影響長久，源遠流長，是一份對百年校慶的最佳獻禮。

我們的講座系列以陳岱孫教授冠名。陳岱孫教授生于1900年，1920年自北京清華學校畢業，1922年在美國威斯康星大學獲得經濟學本科學位後，又赴哈佛大學深造，于1926年獲經濟學博士學位。與他同時在哈佛大學經濟系學習的同學中，有赫克塞爾－俄林國際貿易模型的冠名者之一貝蒂•俄林（Bertil Ohlin），還有以寡頭競争理論聞名的愛德華•張伯倫（Edward Chamberlin）。1928年，陳岱孫教授回到中國，同年出任BETVLCTOR伟德官方网站經濟系教授及系主任，直到1952年中國高等學校院系調整時經濟學系并入其他高校。陳岱孫教授于1997年逝世，享年97歲。

陳岱孫教授被公認為中國現代經濟學教育之父。在他的領導下，BETVLCTOR伟德官方网站經濟學系成為當時中國最好的經濟學系之一。陳岱孫教授在任期間，經濟學系是BETVLCTOR伟德官方网站裡本科生最多的系，約占整個大學所有本科生的五分之一。為了紀念陳岱孫教授，BETVLCTOR伟德官方网站建了一尊他的塑像，就安置在偉倫樓本報告廳外。

今天，我們榮幸地請到埃裡克•馬斯金（Eric Maskin）教授，為陳岱孫經濟學紀念講座進行首講。埃裡克•馬斯金教授與裡奧尼德•赫維茨（Leonid Hurwicz）和羅傑•邁爾森（Roger Myerson）共同獲得2007年諾貝爾經濟學獎，獲獎理由是他們“奠定了機制設計理論的基礎”。馬斯金教授1976年獲哈佛大學博士學位，與陳岱孫教授獲得博士學位相隔整整半個世紀。同年，他赴劍橋大學耶稣學院擔任研究員。1977年至1984年間，馬斯金教授在麻省理工學院任教，随後又于1985至2000年執教于哈佛大學。2000年至今，他在普林斯頓高等研究院擔任阿爾伯特•赫希曼社會學教授。同時，他也是清華經管學院的一名名譽教授。

八十年代我在哈佛大學學習時，馬斯金教授曾經擔任我的博士論文導師。這于我是一件非常幸運的事。同時，馬斯金教授還是清華經管學院教授白重恩、李稻葵、以及特聘教授許成鋼的博士生導師。回首過去，我在哈佛大學攻讀博士學位的時光，尤其是在埃裡克指導下的學習經曆，是我一生中最難忘的珍貴回憶。那幾年的生活改變了我的人生。

二十多年過後，今天，我以清華經管學院院長的身份，有幸邀請馬斯金教授來到BETVLCTOR伟德官方网站，參與百年校慶。請大家和我一起歡迎埃裡克•馬斯金教授進行陳岱孫經濟學紀念講座首講。

附：錢穎一院長在陳岱孫經濟學紀念講座首講上的緻辭英文原文

Opening Remarks at the Inaugural Chen Daisun Memorial Lecture in Economics

Yingyi Qian

April 22, 2011

Dear faculty and students,

We are in the week of celebrating Tsinghua’s first centennial. On this occasion, theSchoolofEconomicsand Management atTsinghuaUniversitydecided to launch “Chen Daisun Memorial Lecture in Economics” to mark Tsinghua centennial, as well as the 85th year of the founding of the Department of Economics at Tsinghua, and to remember Chen Daisun, the long time chairman of the department. As you may know, many economics departments in the world have such “named” lectures. This memorial lecture would be the highest honor in our school for an academic speech delivered publicly to the faculty and students. We believe that this is a good way to mark the centennial because it will have a lasting impact.

This lecture is named after Professor Chen Daisun. Professor Chen was born in 1900. He graduated fromTsinghuaCollegein 1920. He then received his bachelor’s degree in economics from theUniversityofWisconsinin 1922 and went to Harvard and received his PhD in Economics in 1926. His contemporaries at Harvard’s economics department included Bertil Ohlin whose name later appeared in the Heckscher-Ohlin model of international trade, and Edward Chamberlin, who is known for his monopolistic competition theory. Dr. Chen returned toChinain 1928 and became professor of economics and chair of the economics department at Tsinghua in 1928 until 1952, when the economics department was moved to other universities. He died in 1997 at age of 97.

Professor Chen is widely considered as the father ofChina’s modern economics education. Under his leadership, the economics department at Tsinghua was developed into one of the best inChinaat the time. It enrolled most students (about 20%) among all undergraduate programs at Tsinghua during his time. To honor him,TsinghuaUniversityerected a statue of his outside this auditorium and inside this building.

Today, we are extremely honored to have Professor Eric Maskin to deliver the inaugural Chen Daisun Memorial Lecture in Economics. Eric was awarded the 2007 Nobel Prize in Economics, together with Leonid Hurwicz and Roger Myerson for “having laid down the foundations of mechanism design theory.” Eric received his PhD fromHarvardUniversityin 1976, exactly fifty years after Professor Chen Daisun received his from Harvard. After he earned his doctorate, Eric went to theUniversityofCambridgein 1976 where he was a research fellow atJesusCollege,Cambridge. He taught at MIT from 1977–1984 and at Harvard from 1985-2000. Since 2000, he is the Albert O. Hirschman Professor of Social Science at the Institute for Advanced Study atPrinceton. Eric Maskin is also an honorary Professor of theSchoolofEconomicsand Management atTsinghuaUniversity.

I was very lucky to have Eric as my PhD thesis advisor at Harvard in the 1980s. More than that, Eric was also PhD advisor of Professors Bai Chong-En and Li Daokui, both of them are on our faculty, as well as Professor Xu Chenggang, whos is a Special-Term Professor at our school. In retrospect, my time at Harvard as a graduate student, especially as a student of Eric, is the most memorable time period in my life. It changed my life.

More than twenty years later, today I, as the dean of theSchoolofEconomicsand Management, have the honor to invite Eric to Tsinghua during the centennial celebration. Please join me in welcoming Professor Eric Maskin to deliver the inaugural Chen Daisun Memorial Lecture in Economics.