Same frustration that caused me, my coauthor, and so many others to look around and say what were doing isnt working. And people come at this from any position. 10 years ago,his first out of the National Debt crisis. Michael porter came to it out of my invitation but also because he has been doing work on Harvard Business school on our economic competitiveness and whether we are a country that can grow jobs and grow income levels. And other people come to it from specific policy angles, which is that every policy organization has begun to come to the communication realization that they may have a fabulous policy idea but he has absolutely zero chance to be successful in congress because the system is dysfunctional. And now people across the board are coming to it because theyre frustrated with the division, with the diff dysfunction, and the lack of progress in washington, d. C. And certainly really veryr two troubling tragic elements that we see, the governments response to the corona
Katherine first, im seeing the same frustration that caused me, my coauthor, and so many others to look around and say what were doing isnt working. And people come at this from any position. So i came to this 10 years ago, first out of the National Debt crisis. Michael porter came to it out of my invitation but also because he has been doing work on Harvard Business school on our economic competitiveness and whether we are a country that can grow jobs and grow income levels. And other people come to it from specific policy angles, which is that every policy organization has begun to come to the communication realization that they may have a fabulous policy idea but he has absolutely zero chance to be successful in congress because the system is dysfunctional. And now people across the board are coming to it because theyre frustrated with the division, with the diff dysfunction, and the lack of progress in washington, d. C. And certainly recently, our two really very troubling tragic e
Susan katherine gehl, in your notebook, you write the american political system has become the cause of our decline in the barrier to address the problems it exists to solve. When you look at america today, what are you seeing . Katherine first, im seeing the same frustration that caused me, my coauthor, and so many others to look around and say what were doing isnt working. And people come at this from any position. So i came to this 10 years ago, first out of the National Debt crisis. Michael porter came to it out of my invitation but also because he was doing work at Harvard Business school on our economic competitiveness and whether we are a country that can grow jobs and grow income levels. And other people come to it from specific policy angles, which is that every policy organization has begun to come to the realization that they may have a fabulous policy idea, but it has absolutely zero chance to be successful in congress because the system is dysfunctional. And now people acr
I wrote about facts, not what i believe. Of course in the First Administration he gained after he went into training after the assassination recovery inch your 70s, thats no small accomplishment. We do thank you, tom, for this special look, and as he does say, its a very factbased, very interesting focus on a period of the president s life that we dont often see as clearly. We do thank you again for coming to join us, and thank tom. Thank you for having me. [applause] up next, author and think tank president , Arthur Brooks. The former french hornist, tunnel social scientist, talks about his research on charity, happiness, and Free Enterprise. The head of the American Enterprise institute is the author of four nonfiction books, including New York Times bess sellers by Gross National happiness and the road to freedom. Arthur brooks, where did the phrase, Gross National happiness, come from . Guest the phrase comes from the government of beaut buttan, who 30 years ago read the process of
And what were doing when we burn fossil fuels, is that we are taking carbon that was buried under the earth over the course of hundreds of millions of years, and we are transferring it back up into the atmosphere. So were basically running geological history backwards and at a very high speed. Were taking a process that took hundreds of millions of years to run in one direction, and were running it in the other direction in a matter of centuries. And if you were an alien and you came to visit the earth, you could easily conclude that what were doing, that the fundamental purpose of modern industrialized society, is to affect this transfer as quickly as possible. To see how much carbon we can get out of the ground and put up into the air and how fast we can do it. And thats a look at some of the chicago tribunes top books for 2014. To link to the full list and to see other publications selections, visit booktv. Org. Okay, now its time for hillary. You wrote that she captured your attent