Oded Galor, Herbert H. Goldberger Professor of Economics, delivered on June 18th, The Max Bogen Memorial Lecture, at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. The Max Bogen Memorial Lecture is a prestigious annual event where current research on general interest topics in Economics is presented. The Lecture is attended by the Economics faculty, its students and other social scientists. Past lecturers have included James Heckman, Eric Maskin, Robert Solow,  Stanley Fischer, Bob Hall, Josh Angrist, and Ed Glaeser.