In 1902, Harris Weinstock, a well-known businessman of Sacramento, California, provided the University of California with a fund to support an annual public lecture on the morals of trade, on behalf of his wife Barbara. Weinstock summed up his reasons for this decision in an article he wrote after the first lecture was delivered in 1904: "Thus, hope is in the air and there is a better and cleaner day in store for all destined to spend their lives in commercial pursuits. The thing to do at this hour is to accelerate the movement and to bring this hoped for day as near to our own as possible. The California University lectureship on the moral of trade is a small effort in that direction."

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Title	Lecturer	Year
The Moral Economy of Resource Extraction and the Future of Industrialization	Helen Thompson	2025
The Deadly Trade in Oil and Gas	Bill McKibben	2024
Slavery in the Economy of the Anthropocene	Kevin Bales	2023
The Moral Economy: Why Good Incentives are No Substitute for Good Citizens	Samuel Bowles	2019
Shaping a 21st Century Workforce – Is AI Friend or Foe?	Jennifer Granholm	2018
Food Politics and the Twenty-First Century Food Movement	Marion Nestle	2017
Healthcare 2024	Kathleen Sebelius	2015
Aftershock: The Next Economy and America’s Future	Robert Reich	2011
Natural Capitalism: The Next Industrial Revolution	Amory Lovins	2008
From the Second Sex to the Joint Venture: An Overview of Women’s Rights and Family Law in the United States	Herma Hill Kay	2000
Institutions, Regulation and Development	Jean-Jacques Laffont	2000
Population and Practical Reason	Amartya Sen	1994
Business and Corruption: Framing the Haitian Question	Michael Laguerre	1994
Beyond Free Trade to Fair Trade	Neil Kinnock	1994
Comparative Capitalism – The Japanese Difference	Chalmers Johnson	1993
European Community, International Trade and World Unity	Jean-Claude Dischamps	1992
California Employers Could and Should Apply Rational Economic Principles to Control Health Care Costs	Alain Enthoven	1992
The World Economy after the Cold War	C. Fred Bergsten	1991
There’s More to Trade Than Trade	John N. Turner	1990
Greenhouse Warming: The Prospects for Collective Action	Thomas C. Schelling	1990
The Morals of Trade	Philip Hawley	1988
The External Debt Problem: Not Only a Financial Question	Jes Herzog	1987
International Banking and Domestic Politics: Perspectives on Debt and Development	Andrew Brimmer	1986
Corporate Decision Making: An Economist’s View	Juanita M. Kreps	1984
Business Morality Shareholder Proposals as Tools for Change?	Nicholas De B. Katzenbach	1981
Business Morality in Less Developed Countries	Goh Keng Swee	1979
Morals of Trade	Ahmed Zaki Yamani	1979
The Business Crime Wave	Ralph Nader	1974
Morals of Trade	Thomas J. Watson	1972
Life Before Death in the Corporate State	Nicholas Johnson	1970
Needed Protections for the Consumer	Paul H. Douglas	1968
The Ethics of Competition Revisited	Eugene V. Rostow	1962
The Morality of Discrimination in International Trade	Sir Geoffrey Crowther	1956
Elementary Conditions of Business Morals	Chester I. Bernard	1955
Toward Enlarging the Sphere of Freedom	Ralph J. Watkins	1951
Economics vs. Politics in International Relations: The European Recovery Program	Edward S. Mason	1948
Capitalizing on Capitalism: A Moral Responsibility	Paul Gray Hoffman	1946
Morals of Trade	Thurman Arnold	1942
Life Insurance and the Democratic State	M. Albert Linton	1941
Right and Wrong in Labor Relations	William M. Leiserson	1937
Morals in Business	Edward A. Filene	1934
Ethics and Modern Business	Henry S. Dennison	1931
The Legal Sanctions of Business Morality	Max Radin	1930
Economics and Politics	Moritz Julius Bonn	1930
Relativity in Business Morals	Henry M. Robinson	1927
The Ancient Greeks and the Evolution of Standards in Business	George M. Calhoun	1925
The New Paper Moneys of Europe: Their Moral and Economic Significance	Francis W. Hirst	1921
Safeguarding the Future of Private Business	Wigginton E. Creed	1921
The Morals of Economic Internationalism	John A. Hobson	1919
The Ethics of Cooperation	James Hayden	1918
Creating Capital: Money Making as an Aim in Business	Frederick Lockwood Lipman	1917
Higher Education and Business Standards	Willard Eugene Hotchkiss	1916
Is Civilization a Disease?	Stanton Coit	1915
Social Justice Without Socialism	John Bates Clark	1913
Morals in Trade and Commerce	F.B. Anderson	1911
Commercialism and Journalism	Hamilton Holt	1909
The Moral Tendencies of Business	A.C. Bartlett	1907
This Lecture by Felix Adler is Untitled	Felix Adler	1907
This Lecture by James R. Garfield is Untitled		1907
The Business Center in Its Public Relations	Albert Shaw	1904
The Conflict Between Private Monopoly and Good Citizenship	John Graham Brooks