Past Event
13th Annual Conference: Steps to Mass Flourishing: Social Values and Individual Experience
November 9, 2015
9:30 AM - 12:00 PM
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Columbia University, New York, NY
- Introductory Remarks: Edmund Phelps
- Session 1: Innovation: Its Measurement, Cultural Sources and Recent History
- Speakers: Edmund Phelps, Raicho Bojilov, Gylfi Zoega, Saifedean Ammous
- Discussants: Philippe Aghion, Eric Bartelsman
- Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nOlGJYUihkM
- Session 2: Forces Impairing Prosperity in the Economies of the West
- Speakers: Luigi Bonatti, Catherine L. Mann
- Discussants: Luigi Paganetto, Charles Calomiris
- Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9kR_A5Dt7oU
- Roundtable: Capitalism and Innovation in the West
- Speakers: Stefano Micossi, Ian Goldin, David S. Rose
- Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kEAQOtnGSBM
- Luncheon Speaker: Peter Thiel
- Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y11uX8X6iz4
- Session 3: The Emergence of Innovation and Flourishing
- Speakers: Emma Griffin, Anton Howes
- Discussant: Amar Bhide
- Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xHOsdAoKwqU
- Session 4: Impact Investing
- Speakers: Richard Robb, Brian Trelstad, Andrzej Rapaczynski, Matthew Bishop, Abigail Noble
- Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pfld2m5ZcPo
- Session 5: How Evolving Social Values Suppress Individual Initiative
- Speakers: Jonathan Haidt, Barry Schwartz, Philip K. Howard, Lewis Lapham
- Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ko02AzJszf0
- Dinner Speaker: Peter Jungen