The Goddess of the Market: The Meaning of Ayn Rand Cato Institute - Cato InstituteTwo major new books on Ayn Rand testify to the continuing impact of America’s most influential novelist of ideas. Sales of Rand's books have been impressive for 66 years — more than 25 million -- and have rece...
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How Soccer Explains Soviet LifeThe Graduate Center, CUNY - CUNY Graduate CenterRobert Edelman, Professor of Russian History, University of California, San Diego, discusses his recently published, Spartak Moscow: A History of the People’s Team in a Workers' State, a history of the USSR's most pop...
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The Future of Business: Innovation and Sustainability swissnex San Francisco - swissnexSwissnex brings together several well known local and international personalities to discuss how to innovate business with a strategy for sustainability.Of the world’s 100 largest economies, more than half are...
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Halifax Int’l Security Forum Keynote with Robert M. GatesThe German Marshall Fund - The honorable Robert M. Gates delivers the keynote speech at the Halifax International Security Forum hosted by the German Marshall Fund.The German Marshall Fund of the United States (GMF), in cooperation with th...
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Baroness Susan Greenfield: Is Online Networking Harmful? Australian Broadcasting Corporation - Sydney Opera HouseWith a recent study showing that up to 97% of Australians aged 16-17 use at least one social networking site, should we be worried? Increasingly children are raised in front of televi...
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The Talent Gap: A Leadership Opportunity Acumen Fund - Acumen Fund, a non-profit global venture fund, uses entrepreneurial approaches to tackle problems associated with poverty. Established in 2001 by Jacqueline Novogratz, Acumen Fund has pioneered the use of market-based approaches to ...
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Sam Tanenhaus: The Death of ConservatismThe New School - The New SchoolSam Tanenhaus discusses his new book, The Death of Conservatism. For 75 years, Tanenhaus argues, the right has been split into two factions: consensus-driven "realists," who believe in the virtue of government and its power t...
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Paul Krugman: The Return of Depression EconomicsThe Hudson Union Society - Hudson Union SocietyNew York Times columnist and Nobel economist Paul Krugman comes to the Hudson Union Society to talk about the aftermath of the global economic crisis.He discusses what it will take to make a full recove...
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Ron Pompei: Commerce, Culture & Community LuxuryLab - TheTimesCenterLuxuryLab presents its first-ever INNOVATION FORUM, an unprecedented event addressing the rapidly changing luxury marketplace.Held at TheTimesCenter, the forum brought together thought leaders to share never-seen-before research...
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Change by Design: Tim Brown of IDEO Commonwealth Club - The Commonwealth Club of CaliforniaOne myth of innovation is that brilliant solutions leap fully formed from the minds of geniuses. In reality, we don’t simply realize solutions; we design them. Design thinking is now being applied to addre...
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John Demsey: The Changing Paradigm of Celebrity Marketing LuxuryLab - TheTimesCenterLuxuryLab presents its first-ever INNOVATION FORUM, an unprecedented event addressing the rapidly changing luxury marketplace.Held at TheTimesCenter, the forum brought together thought leaders to share never-seen...
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Howard Wiley and the Angola Project feat. Faye Carol de Young Museum - Koret AuditoriumJazz at Intersection presents live music by Howard Wiley and the Angola Project, featuring Faye Carol. Intersection’s resident composer, Howard Wiley, and his 12-piece jazz, blues, and gospel ensemble continue...
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The Goddess of the Market: The Meaning of Ayn Rand
