Hello, everybody. Welcome to the American Enterprise institute, thank you for joining us today. We are going to dive right in to talk about the new book everybody lies. The subtitle for about 15 to 20 minutes after that, we will sit down and have a conversation at Columbia University at 5 30 then we will look at the book but hes produced and have the opportunity to defend himself and then we will take questions from the audience and follow the same procedure. Do you want to go first . Thanks for the introduction and for inviting me to this panel. The book everybody lies is about five years of research ive been doing. So i will describe what it is. For the last 80 years, if you want to know what people want, why people do the things they do and what people are going to do, you have basically one main approach. You ask them if you can talk to the survey said they will go out and ask people questions. And there is a problem in this approach which is people tend to lie to surveys to make t
New book which is called the chessboard in the web. The most recent of several books that she has written. She is currently the presidency of new america. She was formally a director of policy planning at the state department informally dean of the Woodrow Wilson school at princeton. What is important although just some of their past assignments and a very illustrious career whats important in terms of todays discussion is that youll see in her background that amory is both a practitioner and theorist or as a teacher, professor of international affairs. Its an exciting opportunity to discuss her book. Lets jump and tell us about the thesis of the book and why you decided to write it now . It is great to talk to. And to be able to reflect on both of our experiences. As for policy practitioners ive been writing about networks since 1994. As a scholar ive been looking at how to look at how the world was moving from big hierarchal organizations or the world bank. An increasingly toward net
New book which is called the chessboard in the web. The most recent of several books that she has written. She is currently the presidency of new america. She was formally a director of policy planning at the state department informally dean of the Woodrow Wilson school at princeton. What is important although just some of their past assignments and a very illustrious career whats important in terms of todays discussion is that youll see in her background that amory is both a practitioner and theorist or as a teacher, professor of international affairs. Its an exciting opportunity to discuss her book. Lets jump and tell us about the thesis of the book and why you decided to write it now . It is great to talk to. And to be able to reflect on both of our experiences. As for policy practitioners ive been writing about networks since 1994. As a scholar ive been looking at how to look at how the world was moving from big hierarchal organizations or the world bank. An increasingly toward net
C before we say or do anything else today i want to pause to extend our thoughts and our prayers for the wellbeing of with scalise and our colleagues. Police and staff who were attacked by gunman this morning in virginia. Several members of this committee were there. This is a sad day for our country. We still dont have all the details but we do know that there are those who want to use acts of violence to create chaos , to disrupt our democracy. The American People will not let them when. So after deliberation with the Ranking Member, we have decided to proceed. The secretary has a very challenging schedule. Given the circumstances of the delayed start of our hearing, i want to appeal to members who intend to use less than their full five minutes so that more of our colleagues have a chance to speak and i will be abbreviating my Opening Statement. Today secretary tillerson will testify on the administrations budget and reorganization plans for the department of state. First off mr. Se
C before we say or do anything else today i want to pause to extend our thoughts and our prayers for the wellbeing of with scalise and our colleagues. Police and staff who were attacked by gunman this morning in virginia. Several members of this committee were there. This is a sad day for our country. We still dont have all the details but we do know that there are those who want to use acts of violence to create chaos , to disrupt our democracy. The American People will not let them when. So after deliberation with the Ranking Member, we have decided to proceed. The secretary has a very challenging schedule. Given the circumstances of the delayed start of our hearing, i want to appeal to members who intend to use less than their full five minutes so that more of our colleagues have a chance to speak and i will be abbreviating my Opening Statement. Today secretary tillerson will testify on the administrations budget and reorganization plans for the department of state. First off mr. Se