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Perhaps no one understands markets—especially runaway markets—better than Robert Shiller. He predicted the dotcom collapse in his New York Times bestseller Irrational Exuberance. More recently, he warned that the housing market was dangerously inflated by historic proportions and due to burst and bring much of the rest of the financial system down with it.

In his forthcoming book (September 2008), The Subprime Solution: How Today's Global Financial Crisis Happened and What to Do About It, Shiller defines the problems in the financial system that have made such market turmoil a recurring phenomenon and lays out solutions that would help prevent such meltdowns in the future.

To learn more about this speaker and his work, click here.


Richard Thaler and Cass Sunstein

Nudge

Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth and Happiness

Since its publication in April, Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth and Happiness has attracted a tremendous amount of positive press. As the subtitle suggests, the ideas in Nudge apply directly to healthcare and financial services and to any organization that depends on offering customers, employees or anyone else options for making decisions are are optimally framed—and what organization isn't? Richard Thaler is one of the founding fathers of behavioral economics and Cass Sunstein is one of the most respected legal minds in the U.S., with publications that reach far beyond the law into many areas of social policy.


Robert H. Frank

Economists have refused to treat people as people, and so have painted a distorted picture of the marketplace.

Robert H. Frank is also a behavioral economist who has written extensively on how human behavior affects economic decisions and financial markets, and how understanding human behavior could help improve social policy and business performance. He has consistently upended the traditional economic view of people as rational, self-interested actors and explored what really motivates people in economic and competitive environments and how businesses and markets might meet people's real needs more effectively. To learn more about Robert Frank, click here.


Paul Romer

There is absolutely no reason why we cannot have persistent growth as far into the future as you can imagine.


What drives wealth creation?

Named one of America’s 25 most influential people by Time magazine, Paul Romer is the primary developer of New Growth Theory, which provides a new answer to one of the oldest questions in economics: what sustains economic growth in a physical world characterized by scarcity? The answer: advances in technology. The key to sustaining economic growth is creating economic incentives that support new ideas and their development.

To learn more about Paul Romer, click here.



A daily Publication LOG of articles by and about our speakers

___Thursday________________________
Amateur Cultural Production and Peer-to-Peer Learning, Mimi Ito, Digital Youth Learning, [7.3.08]
Ze Frank and the Value of Resonance and Branding, Commentary on Ze Frank, MakeSomethingHappen.net, [7.3.08]
Why Can a Draft Regression Outpredict NBA Experts?, Ian Ayres, The ANew York Times, [7.3.08]
Why Is the GOP Really the Party of Free Trade?, William Bernstein, The Huffington Post, [7.3.08]

___Wednesday________________________
Why the Rural Idyll Doesn't Come Cheap, Tim Harford, The Financial Times, [7.2.08]
The highest political bearpit in the land, Clive Crook, The Financial Times, [7.2.08]
Oily Speculators, James Surowiecki, The New Yorker, [7.2.08]

___Tuesday________________________
Why Some Succeed Wildly, Malcolm Gladwell, The New York Times [7.1.08]
Debating the Long Tail, Chris Anderson, Harvard Business Review [7.1.08]
An anti-stagflation strategy: move back home, Tim Harford, The Financial Times [7.1.08]
Three’s a Crowd, Bill Emmott, The Washington Post [7.1.08]
Independent Reading, Jacob Weisberg, Slate [7.1.08]

___Monday________________________
One Rebate Isn’t Enough, Robert Shiller, The New York Times [6.30.08]
Britain has run out of luck, Martin Wolf, The Financial Times [6.30.08]
What Winning Means to Generation Y, Nadira Hira, CNBC [6.30.08]

World's top public intellectuals
The British magazine Prospect has conducted a poll to identify the world's 100 top public intellectuals and seven of our speakers made the list: Paul Krugman, Martin Wolf, Francis Fukuyama, Jeffrey Sachs, Lawrence Lessig, Robert Kagan, and Malcolm Gladwell.
6.30.08

Atul Gawande
On June 25, Atul Gawande and the World Health Organization launched their "Safe Surgery Saves Lives" Initiative, which aims to improve the safety of surgical care around the world, beginning with the institution of a simple checklist. You can read a New York Times article about the launch here.
6.27.08

Wikinomics
Don Tapscott and Anthony Williams's bestelling book Wikinomics continues to garner awards. It's already been chosen as a Best Book by The Economist, The Wall Street Journal, The Financial Times, BusinessWeek, and nine other publications or book outlets. Now the Highams Group has given Wikinomics the Highams Business Technology Book of the Year award for books celebrating IT developments that have had the most impact in the working world over the past year. Congratulations, Don and Anthony!
6.24.08

Jeffrey Sachs
Jeffrey Sachs appeared this past Sunday (June 22) on ThisWeek with George Stepahopoulos as part of a panel discussing the energy crisis with two members of Congress and the head of the Petroleum Institute. Click here to view the video.
6.23.08

Bill McKibben
Bill McKibben's 350.org campaign launched today with this wonderful animated video. 350 parts per million is the target amount of carbon in the atmosphere that would prevent huge and irreversible damage to the earth.
6.17.08

HR World's Top 100 Management Blogs
HR World has named three of our speakers to its list of the Top 100 Management Blogs: Chris Anderson's The Long Tail, Charles H. Green's Trust Matters, and Fara Warner's The Power of the Purse. Congratulations!
6.15.08

Matt Mason
Free Pirates! Matt’s book The Pirate's Dilemma is now available free online.
6.9.08

Richard Schroth
Dr. Richard Schroth has been named one of their Top 25 Consultants in the World for 2008 by Consulting Magazine. Congratulations, Rich!
6.6.08

Chris Anderson
Wired magazine, under edtior-in-chief Chris Anderson, won the 2008 National Magazine Award in the Design category. Congratulations, Chris!
5.5.08

Atul Gawande
Dr. Atul Gawande has been selected for the third time to appear in the annual Best American Essays collection. That makes the sixth of seven years in a a row that Dr. Gawande has appeared in Best American Science Writing. Congratulations, Atul!
4.29.08

Campaign Stops
The New York Times is hosting a series of blogs on the 2008 election campaigns that features several of our speakers: David Brooks, Bill Emmott, and Jacob Hacker. Other commentators, like Paul Krugman, also drop in from time to time. click here to check it out.
3.29.08

James Surowiecki
The Brooklyn Museum has launched an extraordinary art exhibition based on Jim Surowiecki's critically acclaimed book, The Wisdom of Crowds. Click! is a photography exhibition that invites Brooklyn Museum's visitors, the online community, and the general public to participate in the exhibition process. Taking its inspiration from Jim's idea that a diverse crowd is often wiser at making decisions than expert individuals, Click: A Crowd-Curated Exhibition explores whether his premise can be applied to the visual arts—is a diverse crowd just as 'wise' at evaluating art as the trained experts? Click here to read the Museum's full description of this unique exhibition.
3.12.08
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