I feel like i should be selling sham wow. [laughter] it has been a while. I used to do these every summer and then i started going on killing sprees instead. It was a long and generous introduction. Those who have heard me speak the ford know if it is not brought up i feel compelled to do it myself. When the l. A. Times pick me up as a columnist, or frustration publicly canceled her subscription and protest. In my line of your comment does not can it better than that. I always feel like i shouldve retired on that lineup. If i dont bring it up, no one else will. I am musty these days, i have been buried working on a new book in my house. Sort of like Howard Hughes with kleenex boxes on my feet. The shtick i am always supposed to do is be this sort of entertaining and thoughtful whatever. At a stop because that is a high bar to hit. Like the guyeel who wants to be both the veterinarian and the taxidermist. That way he can promise you will get your dog back no matter what. Dogould not do
And personally, this means so much to me. First, i want to sing, and im not a singer but im about to saying, for Helene Cooper as a reporter. She joined the New York Times in 2004 as an assistant editorial page editor, and she has been a Diplomatic Correspondent for the times as well as a white house correspondent, she is now the pentagon reporter for the paper. And in 2015 she was part of the team that won the Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting specifically for work in liberia during the ebola epidemic. And that same year she received the prestigious george polk award and the overseas press club award. And prior to joining the times she spent 12 years with the wall street journal where she was an assistant bureau chief of the washington bureau. And i know that many of you are fans like i am of seeing her on sunday mornings giving insightful, thoughtful, words for us all to think about. Long before her life working highprofile job in the countries top papers, she experienced fi
Society is more important than government. He wrote a great number of books. He taught at university of chicago for a while. He ended up in his hometown, not his hometown, dutch in germany, freiburg, which means free city which is perfect. He wasnt a conservative. He was a liberal, a libertarian. Host in your most recent book, bourgeois equality how ideas, not capital or institutions, enrichd the world you talk about them as young hayek, middleaged hike and old hightech. Did he change his opinion . Guest not too much. Heres what happened. He was an economist economist. One of the leading economists in the world in the 1930s and 40s. He was commonly thought by everyone as John Maynard Keynes equal. But later in the 50s and 60s and 70s, he turned to philosophy, to political philosophy. I think thats the big change. Its not that he changed his opinions about what we unfortunately call capitalism. He thought it was a good thing. He thought that socialism is hard to impossible to make work.
Okay, we are going to start. Good evening everyone, thanks for joining us. My name is yael yisraeli, im the Community Relations manager at the nyu bookstore. This is an ongoing series that weve been having here for the past 70 years featuring nyu alumni like tonight with Haroon Moghul as well as nyu faculty and the General Community as well. Its a real pleasure to be hosting tonight Haroon Moghul who is an nyu along. Welcome back to nyu, pleasure to have you here. We are going to hear from haroon and then have time for questions and answers and a book signing. I want to start the evening by giving a brief introduction. Haroon, i think. Haroon has been very active since graduating from nyu so i dont know if i will cover everything but i will leave it up to him to fill in the gaps. Haroon is currently senior fellow and director of development for the center of global studies, policy, excuse me. He is a commentator and broadcaster who wishes he could be a writer and i think you are, haroo
It has to measure value, and a measuring stick cant be part of what it measures. And if the government treats money as a magic wand to Summit Economic growth like fully entrepreneurs, thats the meaning of the crucial price signals that govern all their opportunities, then you have the kind of stagnation that we are experiencing today. Its a worldwide stagnation, which means its not simply bad policy of the united states. Some systemic affliction of capitalism around the world, and the systemic affliction is the erosion of the meaning of money. So this question throws all valuations into question. Because its like we float money today. Now, International Exchange trading today, just trading currencies back and forth, is 73 times bigger than all trade in goods and services put together. Its 25 times bigger that all global gdp, and it doesnt even arrive as monetary value that anybody can trust. When money is a model of all the horizons of the economy shrank. Host is this book a call to re