Faculty member of the Economics Department and the cochair of the mit work of the future attack force that was commissioned a year ago the spring and the purpose of the task force is to engage in confront the sense that many have that the labor market and technology is changing rapidly to understand why people are anxious, to figure out how concerned they should be, what is changing and what is different this time and what can we do to ensure that the coming era of change needs to not productivity growth but some that show up in our focus is on the labor market and how we make the labor market function well for as many workers as possible. Thats where we see the opportunity and the challenge in the lesson if you read the Task Force Report which was released last week, one thing that we s say, i think a critical economic lesson of the 21st century, a wellfunctioning labor market is the foundation for a healthy middleclass in a wellfunctioning political system. Without that foundation of
Its great to be here with you all to celebrate and discuss an excellent new book by one of the originals and insightful economicic thinkers, amy shlaes. Over the course of her distinguished career, shes got her wideranging intelligence and feel for storytelling to some of the countrys leading intellectual and cultural and technician. She served as a member of the wall street journal editorial board, columnist forle both the Financial Times and Bloomberg News and has taught economic history at the stern school of business. Hi now in addition to her prolific book writing, she serves as a president ial scholar for james college, chairs the board of the Calvin Coolidge president ial foundation and for us at nih hermiachairs the selection comme for the Manhattan Institute cries, an award she herself has won. The latest work a new history is a stunning achievement. Few decades have been printed on the popular quite as much as the 1960s and so many of us remember that decad the decade t drama
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Democracies are being unraveled with by a new class war. [inaudible conversations] good evening and welcome to Hudson Institute, stern policy center. Im john wallace, chief operating officer. Id like to welcome our audience here at our pennsylvania avenue headquarters and our cspan audience the our first ever podcast taping that is both live and marks the Second Season of the premiere podcast of the Second Season realignment hosted by our Hudson Institute fellows. The podcast launched last year, and i recommend end for those of you who havent been following it, that you take a look at the episodes from last year, particularly the conversation with secretary of state mike pompeo, josh haully, mike duran and others. Its an Excellent Program partly because of the two people who put it together and their ability to bring out topics and to move the argument along. So we couldnt be prouder of the work that theyve done and want to thank them for that, and we are happy to launch this Years Pro
Our next panel we are very excited to get an International Perspective on infrastructure. Earlier i had a chance to meet with mexicos current chair of the governors the current chair is france just go and incoming as mendoza, swift got both representatives from mexico and canada appear on the stage we are really thrilled to have it with us a total of five premieres from our neighbors to the north, who we very much appreciate everybody making the tremendous effort to come down here and join us. They are joining us for this discussion on infrastructure from an International Perspective. I believe canada is doing some really interesting and Creative Things on infrastructure, silly want to thank each one of you for joining us. We have saskatchewan premier who is the chair of the council of the federation which is our equivalent, sort of like the nga of canada. Quebec khmer fans while ago, ontario premier doug ford, New Brunswick premier blaine higgs, and alberta premier jason, please give