She has written and edited many books on the economy and sustainability including sustainable lifestyles and the quest for lassitude. Shes a former fellow and has won multipleawards for her work and research. She is joined today by dana depaul who is a professor of law at the university of californiahastings. Her work is subsidized by the California Supreme Court and her writing has been published in slate. Shes currently working on a book. Today they are discussing after the gig, this book discusses what the economy could havebeen and what it could still be. Ill leave you with this quote from Bill Mckibben who said juliet schor and her teamhave done something extraordinary. Their intensive research as let them understand what the sharing economy feels like and their storytelling ability lets the rest of us make complete sense of the data. In addition they provide a workable plan for how to fulfill the promise in gig work as part of a useful, fair economy. This book will redefine the f
Hello everyone, welcome and thank you for sitting in my name is Audrey Stewart and on behalf of Harvard Bookstore im so please welcome you to todays writing forum with juliet schor discussing her book after the gig. She joined today in conversation by veena do fall. Shes a professor at sociology at Boston College and also a member of the Macarthur Foundation research network. She has written and edited many books on the economy and sustainability including sustainable lifestyles and the quest for pleasant. Shes a former guggenheim fellow and has won multiple awardsfor her work and research. She has joined today by veena dupal, her work has been cited by the California Court and her writing has been published in the la times and slate. She is currently workingon a book. Today they are discussing after the gig, based on a decade of Meticulous Research , this new book discusses the sharing economy, what it is, what it could have been and what it could still be. Ill leave you with this quo
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Themselves as a platform investors seem to be buying it with that stock up 13 this week it just keeps going up nearly 4 today and it laid out the case for longer term growth and ironically, it will come from the good old phone, right a lot of that conference was focused on the zoom phonewhich basically enables you to take it wherever you go. And there is s ais an axios rept saying that uber may be looking to celebrate its elevate unit, the moon shot flying taxi unit it reflects obsession with profit ability, but i might argue that it reflects his obsession to please sharehold s shareholders backing away from some of the longer term ambitions such as freight, elevate now and as well as selfdriving cars, it does raise a few questions. Yes, it may give the share price a bump in the short term, about where does it position uber lon term yeah, when these companies dont have a clear business Start Talking about that were a Media Company or a Helicopter Company or were a freight company, real
James comey who saw the trumprussia probe. He testified today he only learned about fbi abuses in the probe reading about them after the fact in government watchdog reports years after he left the bureau. But then comey claiming it was quote, run by the book. All this leading republicans to ask how can comey know so little about an investigation he launch and ran, when it was comey who pushed for the Mueller Probe in the first place . Joining us republican congressman doug collins from house judiciary how the democrats are mounting an even bigger pushback to stonewall president Trumps Supreme Court nominee amy coney barrett. Former federal prosecutor jim trusty on dni ratcliff declassifying information that indicates u. S. Intelligence had evidence from russia in the summer of 2016 that Hillary Clinton and her team had personally signed off on a plan to make up the russia collusion story in order to damage trump an distract from her own personal email scandals. That president obama kne