What does the price of Triscuits over decades at one California grocery store say about macroeconomic conditions? What do civil servants and academic researchers need to do to retrofit microfiche readers to painstakingly digitize historical data? These details came to the fore when Professor Emi Nakamura delivered the 2024-25 C. Malim Harding Visiting Lectureship in Political Economy on 30 September 2024. Among the members of the audience were faculty of the Department of Economics, the Department of Political Science, graduate students, and members of the Harding family including his son Victor, daughter Debbie, and their spouses. [Read more…]