Why is there No Class Warfare in the US? American ...
Why is there No Class Warfare in the US? American Exceptionalism and ...
04/23/2003 3:00 PM 3-442Chuck Collins, co-founder and Program Director of United for a Fair Economy and Responsible WealthDescription: In this talk, Collins discusses the economic impact of the (then) proposed and (now) passed into law Bush tax cut, and issues around ...
Warning: Physics Envy May be Hazardous to Your Wealth
Warning: Physics Envy May be Hazardous to Your Wealth
06/05/2010 1:00 PM Wong AuditoriumAndrew W. Lo, Harris & Harris Group Professor, Director, MIT Laboratory for Financial EngineeringDescription: In this talk Andrew Lo addresses the problem of finding the right level of abstraction with which to think about economic ...
View from the Top Overview & Keynote Highlights
View from the Top Overview & Keynote Highlights
The Alumni Association event View from the Top in London on Jan. 22, 2009, presented a panel of seasoned executives discussing the forces shaping our turbulent times. The event was hosted by PA Consulting Group. For an update of these views, watch Jon Moynihan ...
Transportation in Contemporary Society: A Complex Systems ...
Transportation in Contemporary Society: A Complex Systems Approach
03/09/2010 4:00 PM 3"270Joseph Sussman, J R East Professor of Civil and Environmental EngineeringDescription: In the nineteen fifties and sixties, students of transportation focused on building infrastructure and applied lessons from the physical sciences to designing ...
Toward India 2020: Challenges and Opportunities
Toward India 2020: Challenges and Opportunities
09/09/2009 11:00 AM Bartos theaterDr. Montek Singh Ahluwalia, Deputy Chairman, Indian Planning CommissionDescription: People sometimes ask Montek Singh Ahluwalia questions loaded with "aspirational objectives," such as when India will "get rid of poverty." Few are as ...
Theory of the Firm
Theory of the Firm
ESG freshman Joel Schneider uses Lagrange Multipliers applied to microeconomics. Read more about the Experimental Study Group: http://esg.mit.edu/
The World Economy Blanchard, Caballero and Rigobon
The World Economy Blanchard, Caballero and Rigobon
01/23/2002, 5:00 PM, E51-345 Olivier Blanchard Ricardo Caballero Roberto Rigobon Three members of the Economics Department came together for a discussion on where the world economy appears to be going, and the potential implications of September 11th. School of ...
The U.S. Economy: The Last 50 Years and the Next 50 Years
The U.S. Economy: The Last 50 Years and the Next 50 Years
09/18/2000 7:00 PM KresgeFranco Modigliani, 1985 Nobel Laureate in Economics; Paul A. Samuelson, 1970 Nobel Laureate in Economics; Robert M. Solow, MIT Institute Professor, Emeritus 1987 Nobel Laureate in EconomicsHost(s): Office of the President, Ford/MIT Nobel ...
The U.S. and the World's Recession
The U.S. and the World's Recession
06/07/2008 9:00 AM E51"115Roberto Rigobon, PhD '97, Professor of Economics; Description: Roberto Rigobon somehow makes his audience laugh while summarizing preliminary research on worldwide inflation and recession, data that bring some grim tidings about our global economic state of health. ...
The Tough Get Growing: How to Succeed in a Down Economy
The Tough Get Growing: How to Succeed in a Down Economy
11/16/2009 6:00 PM KresgeBo Fishback, VP, Entrepreneurship, Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation; Eugene Fitzgerald, '85, Merton C. Flemings"SMA Professor, MIT Department of Materials Science and Engineering; Helen Greiner, '89, CEO, The Droid Works; Daphne Zohar, Founder ...
The Status of Women in Science and Engineering at MIT
The Status of Women in Science and Engineering at MIT
03/28/2011 9:00 AM KresgeNancy Hopkins, Amgen, Inc. Professor of BiologyDescription: It's difficult to imagine that at one point in her career, National Academy of Science member Nancy Hopkins thought to quit. In her talk, she relates the historical challenges facing ...
The Road from Copenhagen
The Road from Copenhagen
Following the United Nations Climate Change Conference held in December 2009 in Copenhagen, Denmark, a five-member panel reviews the pros and cons of the events that took place.
The Militarization of Science and Space
The Militarization of Science and Space
02/15/2004 1:00 PM KresgeNoam Chomsky, Institute Professor, MITDescription: Chomsky launches a savage, two-pronged assault on national economic policies and efforts at "global dominationEUR.By now the stakes are so high that issues of survival arise," says Chomsky. The basic principle ...
The Future of the News
The Future of the News
11/18/2008 6:00 PM MuseumEllen Hume, Research Director, MIT Center for Future Civic MediaDescription: Ellen Hume predicts a "good news conversation" with her MIT Museum crowd about the future of news, but all participants end up working very hard to find a silver lining in the dire situation ...
The Future of the Economy
The Future of the Economy
The Alumni Association event View from the Top in London on Jan. 22, 2009, presented a panel of seasoned executives discussing the forces shaping our turbulent times. In this video, Jonathan P. Moynihan SM '77, executive chairman of PA Consulting Group, offers a view on the future of the ...
The Future of Finance
The Future of Finance
01/28/2011 12:15 PM Rockwell cageRobert C. Merton, Ph.D. '70, MIT Sloan School of Management Distinguished Professor of FinanceDescription: In his keynote address, Robert Merton chooses not to focus on the financial crisis. It is clear to him there were "fools and knaves," as well as "many ...
The Future of Corporate Governance
The Future of Corporate Governance
Stewart C. Myers, Robert C. Merton (1970) Professor of Financial Economics,; MIT Sloan School of Management ; William F. Pounds, Professor Emeritus of Management; Dean Emeritus, MIT Sloan ; Adam Emmerich, Partner, Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz Description: While they won't directly address ...
The Financial Crisis, the Recession, and the American ...
The Financial Crisis, the Recession, and the American Political Economy: A ...
11/09/2010 4:00 PM 54"100Charles H. Ferguson, Ph.D. '89, FilmmakerDescription: Charles Ferguson shows how useful a varied background in math, political science and business can be, as he dissects the complexities and recent crisis of the U.S. financial system. In a ...
The Evolution of Financial Technology
The Evolution of Financial Technology
01/28/2011 9:00 AM KresgeAndrew W. Lo, Harris & Harris Group Professor, Director, MIT Laboratory for Financial Engineering; John C. Cox, Nomura Professor of Finance, MIT Sloan School of Management; Robert C. Merton, Ph.D. '70, MIT Sloan School of Management Distinguished Professor of Finance; ...