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Nobel Prize-winning economist Michael Spence spoke to Googlers in Mountain View on May 24, 2011 about his book The Next Convergence: The Future of Economic Growth in a Multispeed World.
The Next Convergence is certain to spark a heated debate how best to move forward in the post-crisis period and reset the balance between national and international economic interests, and short-term fixes and long-term sustainability.
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Running a profitable business that takes care of the environment, provides meaningful jobs, and helps the community is an oxymoron, right? Not so fast. Friend states that green business practices are good for business and the world. It's not shareholder value or profit.
Gil Friend is Founder/CEO of Natural Logic, Inc. and Author of The Truth About Green Business
Nobel Prize winner in Economics, Elinor Ostrom. She worries about the news and text books promoting one way solutions to complex issues. There is not one way, no one recipe. She is the Arthur F. Bentley Professor of Political Science at Indiana University.
Author and economics professor Robert Frank discusses some basic economic concepts including if the benefit exceeds the cost, do it. He is the author of the "The Economic Naturalist: In Search of Explanations for Everyday Enigmas" and this lecture was part of the Authors@Google series. This event took place on July 23, 2007 at Google headquarters in Mountain View, CA.
"Toward a Truly Free Market: A Distributist Perspective on the Role of Government, Taxes, Health Care, Deficits, and More"
For three decades free-market leaders have tried to reverse longstanding Keynesian economic policies, but have only produced larger government, greater debt, and more centralized economic power. So how can we achieve a truly free-market system, especially at this historical moment when capitalism seems to be in crisis?
About the Author
John C. Médaille is the author of The Vocation of Business: Social Justice in the Marketplace and an instructor at the University of Dallas. He writes and lectures frequently on economics. Médaille has more than thirty years' experience in management at large corporations and as a small businessman, and he served five terms as a city councilman in his hometown of Irving, Texas.
In this interview, Dr. Sharif Abdullah talks about the issue of criminality and morality in terms of five economic systems, color coded markets, easy to remember when you are confronted with the challenge of doing the right thing or first realizing that just because something is legal doesn't make it moral. He is Founder and President of the Commonway Institute. Click image to order his book, Creating a World That Works for All.
Check out EarthSayers.tv special collection, Transforming Our Economy for more films, lectures, interviews.
Sustainability: John Fullerton of the Capital Institute talks with Ruth Ann Barrett of EarthSayers.tv about the need to align capital with sustainability principles and practices and the emergence of impact investing. He begins with how he is aligning his own investment activity with his values which are consistent with a sustainable future. He references the Social Capital or SoCap10 conference recently held in San Francisco and the largest interdisciplinary gathering of individuals and institutions at the intersection of money and meaning.
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