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World Thinkers 2015: Paul Collier
© World Economic Forum Collier, a professor at Oxford University, is best-known for his influential book The Bottom Billion, in which he examined the failures of international aid to developing...
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World Thinkers 2015: Thomas Piketty
Photo by Emmanuelle Marchadour It’s hard to think of a work of economics—certainly not one published in the past 30 years—that has had as extraordinary an impact outside the guild of professional...
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World Thinkers 2015: Bruce Katz
© Bruce Katz A former advisor to Barack Obama, Katz published The Metropolitan Revolution with Jennifer Bradley in 2014, in which they outlined the importance of a network of global trading cities....
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World Thinkers 2015: Lee Smolin
Based at the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics, Smolin has challenged some of the tenets of theoretical physics, particularly the shortcomings, as he sees them, of string theory. He followed...
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World Thinkers 2015: Esther Duflo
© Kris Krüg A winner of the 2011 FT/Goldman Sachs Award for her book Poor Economics, which called for a reconsideration of poverty-fighting measures. She has now turned her attention to social networks...
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World Thinkers 2015: Elizabeth Blackburn
© Conrad Erb Blackburn, a Nobel Prize winner and professor at the University of California, co-discovered the enzyme that replenishes telomeres—stretches of DNA that prevent cells from premature...
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World Thinkers 2015: Linda Colley
In the year that Scotland nearly broke away from the United Kingdom, Colley provided vital historical perspective. Her radio series and book Acts of Union and Disunion argued that Alex Salmond’s notion...
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World Thinkers 2015: Anne Applebaum
© Anne Applebaum As the crisis in Ukraine has unfolded Anne Applebaum, from her home in Warsaw, has proven an insightful Pulitzer-winning critic, both of Vladimir Putin and of the west’s response....
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What is civic capitalism? An interview with Colin Hay
In their new book, “Civic Capitalism“, Colin Hay and Anthony Payne, co-directors of the Sheffield Political Economy Research Institute at the University of Sheffield, argue that the global financial...
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Is your vote truly free?
Daniel Kawczynski is parliament’s tallest ever MP, so does that make him its most electable? © IAN NICHOLSON/PA Archive/Press Association Images On Thursday the nation decides. Each one of us will be...
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Nancy Sherman on war and homecoming
An American solider in Baghdad in 2007 (Photo: Luke Thornberry) In April 2007, US Army captain Josh Mantz was on patrol in Sadr City in Baghdad when a sniper opened fire on him and his troops. A bullet...
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Myths and morals: a conversation with Edward Mendelson
Mythmaker: Norman Mailer in 1948 (Photo: Carl Van Vechten) In 1975, Saul Bellow published an essay entitled “Starting Out in Chicago”. His subject was the distance between the “din of politics,” the...
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World Thinkers 2015: Bruce Katz
© Bruce Katz A former advisor to Barack Obama, Katz published The Metropolitan Revolution with Jennifer Bradley in 2014, in which they outlined the importance of a network of global trading cities....
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World Thinkers 2015: Thomas Piketty
Photo by Emmanuelle Marchadour It’s hard to think of a work of economics—certainly not one published in the past 30 years—that has had as extraordinary an impact outside the guild of professional...
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World Thinkers 2015: Bruce Katz
© Bruce Katz A former advisor to Barack Obama, Katz published The Metropolitan Revolution with Jennifer Bradley in 2014, in which they outlined the importance of a network of global trading cities....
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World Thinkers 2015: Thomas Piketty
Photo by Emmanuelle Marchadour It’s hard to think of a work of economics—certainly not one published in the past 30 years—that has had as extraordinary an impact outside the guild of professional...
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World Thinkers 2015: Bruce Katz
© Bruce Katz A former advisor to Barack Obama, Katz published The Metropolitan Revolution with Jennifer Bradley in 2014, in which they outlined the importance of a network of global trading cities....
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World Thinkers 2015: Thomas Piketty
Photo by Emmanuelle Marchadour It’s hard to think of a work of economics—certainly not one published in the past 30 years—that has had as extraordinary an impact outside the guild of professional...
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World Thinkers 2015: Bruce Katz
© Bruce Katz A former advisor to Barack Obama, Katz published The Metropolitan Revolution with Jennifer Bradley in 2014, in which they outlined the importance of a network of global trading cities....
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World Thinkers 2015: Thomas Piketty
Photo by Emmanuelle Marchadour It’s hard to think of a work of economics—certainly not one published in the past 30 years—that has had as extraordinary an impact outside the guild of professional...
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