Year: 1991  Speaker: B.S. Minhas Subject: Public Versus Private Sector: Neglect of Lessons of Economics in Indian Policy Formulation

Year: 1990 Speaker:  D.T. Lakdawala Subject: Indian Public Debt

Year: 1989 Speaker:  Malcolm S. Adiseshiah Subject: Eighth Plan Perspectives

Year: 1988 Speaker:  Sukhamoy Chakravarti Subject: Development of Development Thinking

Year: 1987 Speaker:  K.R. Ranadive Subject: Town and Country in Economy in Transition

Year: 1986 Speaker:  Manmohan Singh Subject: The Quest for Equity in Development

Year: 1985 Speaker:  Andre Beteille Subject: Equality of Opportunity and the Equal Distribution of Benefits

Year: 1984 Speaker:  M.P. Rege  Subject: Concepts of Justice and Equality in the Indian Tradition

Year: 1983 Speaker:  I.G. Patel Subject: Inflation – Should it be Cured or Endured?

Year: 1982 Speaker:  I.S. Gulati Subject: IMF Conditionality and Low Income Countries

Year: 1981  Speaker: V.M. Dandekar  Subject: Measurement of Poverty

Year: 1980 Speaker:  Aloo J. Dastur Subject: Problems of Indian Minorities