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Excerpt from BigThink -- "This past spring, Big Think convened a roundtable of distinguished economists moderated by Parag Khanna, that included Dambisa Moyo, Daniel Altman and Anand Giridharadas."

Excerpt from Bloomberg -- "Most advanced economies are lapsing into recession while the U.S. is already contracting, Nouriel Roubini, the economist who predicted the bubble in U.S. housing before the market peaked in 2006, said in New York last month."  Additional coverage appeared in Bloomberg Businessweek, CNBC, New York Post and MoneyControl.com.

Excerpt from Barron's -- "In an interview, Brenner pointed out that it's hard to know what effect VIX options and VIX futures will have on the behavior of the VIX itself."  Additional coverage appeared on Dow Jones.

Excerpt from The Independent -- "The psychologist Jonathan Haidt argues that conservatism taps into more wellsprings of moral passion than liberalism, which gives the Right a powerful electoral advantage."

Excerpt from the Innovation Investment Journal -- "'Ideas are the recipes we use to rearrange things to create new value and wealth,' Frog Design Fellow Luke Williams reading of economist Paul Romer. "

Excerpt from Financial Post --"In her excellent book, 'The Forgotten Man,' Amity Shlaes notes that the 1932 tax increases were not the result of any 'fundamentalist' commitment to balanced budgets, but of fears about a run on the dollar."  Additional coverage appeared in The Phoenix and American Spectator.

Excerpt from AdAge -- "While Nielsen today is a major public corporation, it is still imbued with the spirit of a proud family-owned business dedicated to the best principles and practices of the research profession."  Additional coverage appeared in the Associated Press.

Excerpt from AddPR -- "Hugo’s screenplays had been cycling in industry circles and widely revered by film industry connoisseurs such as director/UCLA professor Philip Frank Messina, Tribeca Film Festival co-founder Sharon Badal ... "

Excerpt from BigThink -- "Last week my colleagues at New York University’s Stern School of Business hosted a lecture by the governor of the Reserve Bank of India, Duvvuri Subbarao, in which he openly sympathized with Bernanke’s plight. ... Flooding the economy with money is all Bernanke can do."

Excerpt from RepoWatch -- "Liquidity risk – which was at the heart of the September 2008 financial meltdown and explains regulatory concerns about a Greek default today – remains an open issue in financial regulatory reform."

Excerpt from ABC News -- "He wasn't flaunting it like Donald Trump. ... He didn't do Architectural Digest. Do you even know what his wife looks like?"  Additional coverage appeared in Deseret News, Moneywatch and San Antonio Feeds!

Excerpt from The Economist -- " ... the vast majority of job growth has been in areas like education and health care, where productivity and wages are stagnant, a trend well documented by Michael Spence."  Additional coverage appeared in The Washington Post.

During an interview, Professor Lawrence White discusses the economy

Excerpt from GigaOm -- “If the conversation is on the Internet instead of in the workplace, you can immediately go and find that show."

Excerpt from Forbes -- "We should divide 'technological advance' into two sections, as William Baumol (the goto economist on these matters) does. In his definitions, there is invention, which is the creation of spiffy new things. There is also innovation, which is using either these spiffy new things to do interesting things"

Excerpt from Bloombrg TV -- "Credibility means you decide, and then you speak. Today in the eurozone it's the opposite - everybody is talking, there's a cacophony of voices, and no decision is being taken."  Additional coverage appeared in The Washington Post, The Australian, Business Spectator, Dario Economico, five Bloomberg pieces, three Bloomberg Businessweek pieces, TIME, CNBC and The Wall Street Journal.

Excerpt from Vimeo -- "We study what are the determinants of information aggregation in social networks, establishing what properties of the network topology, the agents’ information structure and the agents’ preferences drive (or preclude) learning in large networks."

Excerpt from ContentLead -- “There has been evidence from survey and experimental research for more than 50 years to demonstrate the power of word-of-mouth communication."

Excerpt from Forbes -- "Frank has got it wrong. After a while dumping money into the economy doesn't bring recovery, it just widens the potential for inflation."

Excerpt from Downtown Express -- “At this rate, in a few years, every single Downtown school will have a waitlist — even the incubator Peck Slip school"  Additional coverage appeared in Our Town Downtown, Tribeca Trib and DNAinfo.

Excerpt from a CIO blog -- "It's called Baumol's Cost Disease because Baumol realized something more -- that competition in the labor marketplace isn't limited to neatly confined distinct positions within which individual candidates compete for work. It's broader than that."

Excerpt from Reuters -- "Small businesses, entrepreneurs are the corporate equivalent of dolphins. Everybody likes dolphins ... It's a good group to associate with." Additional coverage appeared on Canada.com.

Excerpt from AdAge.com -- "Social media is the corporate equivalent of skinny jeans, making you look hip, Mr. Galloway added."  Additional coverage appeared in Folio Magazine and AdAge.

Excerpt from New York Post -- "[I]n the next 10 to 20 years, I don’t think [Facebook] will be in the top 100' most valuable companies." Additional coverage appeared on Forbes.com and Innovation Excellence.

Excerpt from Bloomberg -- “Week two is when people decide if they’re going to stick with a new show."