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"It is not the case that just because knowledge is constantly being overturned we do not know anything. But too often, we fail to acknowledge change."
Samuel Arbesman, author of The Half-Life of Facts, from The Economist.
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NotesHere’s Jessica Jackley, KIVA co-founder and Lavin speaker, talking with The Economist about the future of crowdfunding and community entrepreneurship.
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Vijay V. Vaitheeswaran, the award-winning correspondent for The Economist, talks about his new book Need, Speed, and Greed, and how innovation can solve the world’s “wicked problems.” Read more HERE.
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NotesLavin speaker Daron Acemoglu, in an Economist video, talking about how “economic success or failure is rooted in the health of political institutions.” Acemoglu’s book, Why Nations Fail, co-authored with James Robinson, debuted at #11 on the New York Times bestseller list this week.
