For their presentations. They will speak for 10 to 12 minutes at the most, i will enforce that with an iron hand about their Current Research on president ial commissions and then the three of us will talk in conversation about the role of president ial commissions and political history. And i will reserve the last half hour at least for questions and comments from you and for us to continue talking. As you can tell todays session is being filmed by cspan so do with that information as you will. All right. Frank is going to go first and introduce yourself. Yeah, my name is frank popper. I teach city planning rather than history, although increasingly i take a historical approach to city planning. I do that at rutgers and at princeton. The reason im here is that nearly half a century ago i wrote a small book for the 20th century fund, now the Century Foundation in new york city on president ial commissions and its one of the very few sources, i think, on them and a couple of months ago
Stay with us now for crosstalk asking whether the u. S. And china can find a way out of better trade for. A low and welcome across talk were all Things Considered im Peter Lavelle after a breakdown in negotiations president and she may soon again meet to hash out a trade deal the stakes couldnt be higher both sides would need to proceed to wind failure could witness the Global Economy divided into rival blocks and a dual internet world. Trade war im joined by my guest. The zoom in washington she is a financial analyst as well as Vice President of vision for Fund Distributors also in washington we have john gong he is a professor at the university of International Business and economics located in beijing china and in forest hills we crossed to Michael Hudson he is a professor of economics at the university of missouri kansas city as well as author of forgive them their debts a Financial Times 2800 book of the year all right crosstalk rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime y
Palestinian protestors College Campuses here in the United States. Fire people driving trying to get to the u. K. Just hours after the government process, a controversial law to send migrants and refugees to the one on marching to protect their culture and deadlines, brazils Indigenous Peoples, a staging, a 5 day protest in the capital and sport inter have one the its holly and sorry, a title maybe rivals ac milan to one to claim the tropi for the 20th time in their history. The 15 g m t. Were going to begin in gaza where israels war isnt it . The 2 hundreds, a day more than the 34183 promised indians have been killed since october, the 7th thunder. No signs of the violence ending in the central parts of the strip is really air strikes. Targeted on the senate refugee camp. It is in the north and the sides have also being hit of the i know we assessing our role as the, as mediators. We need serious commitment by all the sites to reach a deal. And secondly, attacking the mediator does no
Point in history . It is a time when institutions and government are at an alltime low but has a huge surge in the Economy Companies like air bnb, uber and tinder. In areas as diverse as dating, banking, sharing rides or hiring nannies weve been investigating beasthese to understand how technology is transforming trust in exploring what the implications are for the decisionmaking in life, work and business and also completing the study said harvard and lectures she divides her life between sydney and london. We welcome rachel botsman. [applause] good evening everyone thank you for coming. Happy holidays to all of you. It is lovely to come back. Im very excited to talk to you this evening about my work on trust and what i thought we would explore is this trust shift that is happening from institutions and individuals and i hope i can give you a balanced view on conditionhaitians thath good and bad and all different areas of our lives, so im going to talk for a little bit and then open t
Getting this sort of thoughtful discussion it deserved. I think 15 or 20 years ago, erik and i talked about this when i was a graduate student and erik was a professor and we felt that people werent taking the issue seriously. If anything, i would say people should not panic at this point. And i think you know, there are a number of remarks i could make. I think there are season for some skepticism or at least a a little bit about how fast things are actually moving. And i would think there is a lot of aggregate data that dont suppo support the idea that the labor market or the idea is changing as a dramatic story. So the premium to Higher Education has plateaued over the last ten years. And in fact, we see evidence that highly skilled workers are moving have less rapid career directors and moving into less skills and productivity is not growing rapidly and the unemployment growth weve seen have been in relatively low education, in person serve occupations which has a Technology Elemen