Dambisa Moyo, “Is Aid Dead? Foreign Aid and Development” (MP3 audio), Council on Foreign Relations, 2009/04/21 September 15, 2009
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Does foreign aid help the development of third world countries, or inhibit it?
Roundtable Meeting: Global Health Roundtable: Is Aid Dead? A Discussion with Dambisa Moyo on Foreign Aid and Development
Christopher Coyne, “Exporting Democracy after War” (MP3 audio), Econtalk, 2008/04/07 September 15, 2009
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After wars, countries may be helped in economic recovery.
Christopher Coyne of West Virginia University and George Mason University’s Mercatus Center talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about his book, After War: The Political Economy of Exporting Democracy.
They talk about the successes and failures of America’s attempts to export democracy after a war. In some cases, Japan and Germany, for example, after World War II, American efforts have led to stability and democratic institutions. In many other cases, Cuba, Somalia, and Haiti, for example, and so far, Iraq, American efforts have failed, often repeatedly and have sometimes made things worse. Coyne tries to identify factors that lead to an improved likelihood of success or failure. Ultimately, he concludes that a non-interventionist posture accompanied by unilateral free trade is more likely to benefit citizens under repressive governments.
Coyne on Exporting Democracy after War | EconTalk | Library of Economics and Liberty
Rick Prelinger, “Lost Landscapes of San Francisco” (MP3 audio), Longnow Foundation, 2008/12/19 September 15, 2009
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San Francisco has a long and interesting history.
Rick started out in 01982 as an amateur collector of the un-collected. He began by collecting film out-takes, esoteric commercial films, and all the other ephemera that is usually discarded by archives and libraries. Today he is a professional archivist who funds his collections by selling commercial access, AND giving it away. Rick pointed out that his archival sales go up the more he provides free access. The film student who uses a clip in film school often becomes a professional who buys the content later.
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Stephen Marglin, “Marglin on Markets and Community” (MP3 audio), Econtalk, 2008/03/10 September 15, 2009
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Community and markets are two different ways in which human being interact socially.
Stephen Marglin of Harvard University and author of The Dismal Science: How Thinking Like an Economist Undermines Community talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the markets and community.
Marglin argues that markets and commercial transactions undermine the connections between us. He wants people to pay more attention to what is lost and not just what is gained by the pursuit of material well-being.
Topics discussed include the nature of community, the role that voluntary associations play in our lives, the costs and benefits of mobility, the role of insurance in reducing our dependence on each other, and the nature of knowledge.
Marglin on Markets and Community | EconTalk | Library of Economics and Liberty
Vernon Smith, “Markets and Experimental Economics” (MP3 audio), Econtalk, 2007/05/21 September 15, 2009
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When I was in graduate school in the 1980s, experimental economics was a new area of research.
Vernon Smith, Professor of Economics at George Mason University and the 2002 Nobel Laureate in Economics, talks about experimental economics, markets, risk, behavioral economics and the evolution of his career.
Vernon Smith on Markets and Experimental Economics | EconTalk | Library of Economics and Liberty
Michael Meyer, “Last Days of Old Beijing” (MP3 audio), Tech Nation, 2008/09/04 September 15, 2009
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The urbanization of Beijing means that the old parts of the city are disappearing.
Dr. Moira Gunn speaks with Michael Meyer, author of “The Last Days of Old Beijing,” about the transformation of a city.
IT Conversations | Tech Nation | Michael Meyer (Free Podcast)
William McDonough, “Sustainability And The Next Industrial Revolution” (MP3 audio), Total Picture Radio, 2007/07/05 September 11, 2009
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William McDonough is a designer with creative approaches to sustainability.
“Reflect on this: It took us 5,000 years to put wheels on our luggage. How smart are humans?” William McDonough
“My goal is very simple. It’s to help create “a delightfully diverse, safe, healthy, and just world, with clean air, soil, water, and power — economically, equitably, ecologically, and elegantly enjoyed, period. What’s not to like?”
William McDonough is the winner of three U.S. presidential awards: the Presidential Award for Sustainable Development (1996), the National Design Award (2004); and the Presidential Green Chemistry Challenge Award (2003). Time magazine recognized him as a “Hero for the Planet” in 1999, stating that “his utopianism is grounded in a unified philosophy that, in demonstrable and practical ways, is changing the design of the world.”
His Book, Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things, (North Point Press). was not printed on conventional paper, but in Durabook, a synthetic “paper” made from plastic resins and inorganic fillers, materials that can be reutilized again and again in industrial processes, what the book calls a “technical nutrient.”
George Dolbier and David Laux, “IBM’s Gaming Business” (MP3 audio), AfterTV, 2007/01/30 September 11, 2009
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Although most people think about IBM as “business machines”, the company is a significant presence in the growing business of video games.
Do they play games at International Business Machines? Yes, they do and, like most other things at IBM, they are pretty good at it.
We caught up with George Dolbier (photographed), the Chief Technology Officer at IBM’s Gaming Division and global executive David Laux to talk about IBM’s gaming business. So what, exactly, does playing electronic games mean at IBM? According to Dolbier, it means recognizing beautiful things at odd angles.
Ted Leung, “Open Source in the Corporate World” (MP3 audio), Herding Code, 2008/10/03 September 11, 2009
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It’s interesting to hear first-hand accounts of histories of successes and failures in Silicon Valley.
Ted Leung … works on dynamic languages and tools at Sun Microsystems and is a member of the Apache Software Foundation.
We discussed a variety of issues, including:
- Ted’s wild ride through Apple, Apache, the Open Source Application Foundation, and Sun
- How open source development can benefit software companies as well as the development community
- How open source has worked for Apple, Sun, and IBM
- Microsoft and open source
- JavaFX
- Chandler: what is it, what it does well, and where it disappoints
Episode 20: Ted Leung on open source in the corporate world | Herding Code
Daniel Bell, “China’s New Confucianism: Politics and Everyday Life in a Changing Society” (MP3 audio), Big Ideas, tvo.org 2008/08/10 September 11, 2009
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The government in China has been promoting Confucianism both internally and throughout the world.
Daniel Bell is a Professor of Philosophy at Tsinghua University in Beijing, China. His lecture is entitled “China’s New Confucianism: Politics and Everyday Life in a Changing Society”.
