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Support Edward Snowden and chelsea madden, private manning and to remember that lineage that atm with the Citizens Commission to investigate the f. Era. Thank you very much. Thank you. [applause] for people in the back. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible] so is conviction that the fbi office was worth breaking into mustve been based on more than just antipathy for the fbi. Id like to know what does he know about the fbi the email of, which convinced him to take this rather drastic action. I ca...

I have one question so far which i think touches a little bit on that. What do the stagnation and end of innovation days not recognize when they face that . The great stagnation, his argument has used this plateau. You are painting quite a different picture. Hes a super smart guy and we discussed it with him. He really inspired us to work on that first book, race against the machine. When we read his book because he was arguing we had run out of innovation and it was just no more good things, a ...

Edmund phelps. He was the 2006 Nobel Laureate in economics and is the author of many books including a new one called mass flourishing how grassroots innovation created jobs, challenge, and change. This book examines modern economics and what makes nations prosper. And why the sources of that prosperity are under threat today. Net phelps teaches economics and is the director of the center on capitalism and society at columbia university. He has lost at the sources of Economic Growth in the cause...

Good evening, and welcome to tos meeting of the Commonwealth Club of california, the place where youre in the know. You can find the Commonwealth Club on the internet at commonwealthclub. Org. Im Andrew Leonard from salon. Com, your moderator for this evenings program. To my left is Erik Brynjolfsson and Andrew Mcafee who are researchers at the Mit Sloan School of management. Erik is the directer of the mit center for Digital Business and andrew is the Principal Research scientist. The two men m...

Anecdotage is influential and important military mission culminating to be a supreme allied commander in europe in the 1990s. And retirement he has been an investment banker and big shot businessman and he does have one book here todays so join me to welcome wesley clark. [applause] it is a terrific book i do not have a copy with me thank you. Here we go. It is dont wait for the next war a strategy for American Growth and Global Leadership to prepare for this set of challenges were facing. And t...

Emerging markets. We have been talking with eric ham. Here is the book the gop civil war it an ebook and available at amazon. Com welleducated broad minded liberal young air force officer looking after me offered chats which i find very interesting and he told me he was a liberal because he wanted to create in my mind an impression on my have gotten from the immediate at the u. S. Air force academy, full of strange, radical fundamentalists. He told me he was in favor of immigration. But, he said...

Law at the university of california, berkeley. And your moderator for this evenings program. Im delighted to introduce my friend and colleague in the field of economics, doctor edmund phelps. He was the 2006 Nobel Laureate in economics and is the author of many books including a new one called mass flourishing how grassroots innovation created jobs, challenge, and change. This book examines modern economics and what makes nations prosper. And why the sources of that prosperity are under threat t...

Good luck. Guest thank you. Next eric or nelson and andrew mcabee talk about the technical advancements taking over our lives and our economy and suggest ways to harness those advancements to benefit society. The conversatconversat ion is about one hour. Good evening. Welcome to todays meeting of the Commonwealth Club of california the place where you are in the know. You can find the Commonwealth Club on the internet at Common Wealth club. Org. I am Andrew Leonard from salon. Com your moderator...

There is a reason that they are called the business plan. I just came from a panel there and there were three other economists and they were pointing out some pretty good statistics. As you may know, the Median Income is the 50th percentile is lower now than it was in the 1990s. In the employment to population ratio has plummeted. Some of the members are little bit better recently, but it keeps people dropping out of the labor force and not new job and how can these two groups be a very differen...

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