American economy. He argues that corporations, despite americans ambivalence towards them are essential in in the balanced productive and Progressive Society by spurring innovation, rewarding talent and hard work and creating a bounty by which americans have come to depend. Walter, Deputy Editor of Harvard Business review writes that he writes a compelling defense of big does i this finance and the tech industry. Both their critics and their defenders will benefit from reading this book. He will be joined in conversation tonight by edward, u. S. National editor for Financial Times and author of the retreat of western liberalism. Please join me in welcoming tiger and edward. [applause] thank you, thank you very much. Thank you very much for that introduction. Its a delight to be here. Ive met tyler a million times iand weve been friends for many years. We dont always agree with each other, but i think that i can confidently say that hes not just an example of disagreeing without being d
Center for critical race and digital studies and coauthor of race appeal how candidates invoke the race in political campaigns, the winner of the 2012 a psa ralphs monkey award and also with us hed David Ellingtons founder and executive chairman of the Silicon Valley block chain society, a global member driven ecosystem block chaining cryptocurrency related project across industries and for social impact. Members are active investors primarily in technology, collectively representing more than 1. 5 trillion in investment capital, and the motto is funded revolution. I love that. We are so pretty new that is very compelling story, very important story kind of lesser known in tech, but looking at people have been working towards a social justice inside the Tech Industry and the book is called black software the internet Racial Justice, from the afronet to black lives matter of course by charlton d. Mcllwain and published by our friends at Oxford University press. Gentlemen, pleasure to ha
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Tonight and thanks to rainy day books our favorite collaborator and of course one of the nation great independent bookstores. We pride ourselves here at the library among other things on the timeliness and relevance of our signature programming, whether we are holding forums on local issues over addressing national topics. We certainly didnt intend on the particular timeliness of tonights presentation. Christopher leonard was a busy man at the end of last week, taking reporters calls, wrote a couple of pieces for the New York Times and four cnn business after the death of david. Chris spent eight years immersed in oakland. The state of the place and the title of his new book. On the extraordinary Business Empire and putins Political Network that was put together from their base some three hours in which debate over wichita. Anybody have the chance to read the book yet . You wont understand that you will know immediately when you get into it what i am talking about. Its daunting when yo
Good evening and welcome im abbott. Welcome to our program. Todays event is on the record and this is live streaming. We do welcome social media engagement. This is an independent non partisan platform. The host into. For this evening programs began youll hear flush talk from doctor former nation. His work focus on demystifying peoples behaviors and opinions in complexes societies and difficult complex situations. He has a ph. D. In policy studies. Following the flash top we begin our Panel Discussion and i will introduce our panel stat that time. Please join me in welcoming doctor pharma nation. I appreciate the chance to be here. Hello chicago. This is my first time. Here the title being Public Opinion after the iranian crisis. We are independent company focusing on opinion polling. Only on iran. Im from toronto canada. Welcome to the canadians from here. We are based in toronto. Thats one of our call centers in toronto. Scientific polling from iran have been completely reliable, and