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David Brooks New York Times OpEd columnist David Brooks is one of our most respected social-political commentators, bringing intelligent and principled insight to the most important issues of our time. In addition to his biweekly columns for The New York Times, he is a regular analyst for the NewsHour with Jim Lehrer on PBS and All Things Considered on NPR. To learn more about David Brooks, click here. Paul Krugman Winner, Nobel Prize for Economics In the midst of the current economic crisis, few people offer audiences more value than Nobel laureate Paul Krugman. He foresaw many aspects of the crisis when he published The Return of Depression Economics in 1999, and has recently published an updated edition entitled The Return of Depression Economics and the Crisis of 2008. He also has been following the economics of the downturn and the politics of recover in his biweekly column for The New York Times. To learn more about Paul Krugman, click here. Richard Conniff The UCLA Anderson School of Management has given its prestigious 2009 Gerald Loeb Award for online business journalism to Richard Conniff. Richard was one of the authors of a series on MSN Money titled "Middle Class Crunch." Congratulations, Richard! 6.22.09 Bill Emmott UCLA Anderson School of Management has announced that Bill Emmott will receive the 2009 Gerald Loeb Lifetime Achievement Award. "The Lifetime Achievement Award recognizes an individual whose career exemplifies the consistent and superior insight and professional skills necessary to further the understanding of business, financial and economic issues." The Loeb Awards are the highest honors in business journalism. Congratulations, Bill! 5.13.09 Paul Krugman and Nouriel Roubini Time magazine has named Paul Krugman and Nouriel Roubini to its Time 100. Writing for Time, Mark Zandi says Krugman "has become our most incisive observer of a global economy in deep crisis." Of Roubini, Krugman himself writes in his Time entry: "he became acutely aware – more, perhaps, than any other economist of our era – of the dangerous mix of folly and fragility that characterizes the modern financial system." 5.1.09

Few things in life are as simple as black and white, Ze Frank, That Makes Me Think Of - Time [7.1.09] The Cost Conundrum, Atul Gawande, The New Yorker A daily Publication LOG of articles by and about our speakers ___Thursday_____________________ The cautious approach to fixing banks will not work, Martin Wolf, The Financial Times [7.2.09] The big thinkers, Richard Thaler, Chris Anderson, danah boyd, Research [7.2.09] Krugman: U.S. Headed for 'Jobless' Recovery, Paul Krugman, ABC News [7.2.09] Personal interview with Marilyn Carlson Nelson–Part 1, Marilyn Carlson Nelson, Wired [7.2.09] Entitlement Reform Is Necessary for Long-Term Fiscal Stability, Douglas Holtz-Eakin, The Heritage Foundation [7.2.09] Imaginary money, Gillian Tett & William Cohan, The Globe and Mail [7.2.09] The rest of this week's PLOG Changing the system will not abolish bubbles. The next one will occur as soon as the lessons of the last one are forgotten.    ~ Peter Tasker. Back to top