Fiscal Policy in an Emerging Market Economy
Former Chilean Minister of Finance and Fellow of the Center for International Development at Harvard, Andres Velasco, delivered a lecture on the subject 'Fiscal policy in natural resource intensive countries: some theory and the experience of Chile.'
Fiscal Policy in an Emerging Market Economy
Former Chilean Minister of Finance and Fellow of the Center for International Development at Harvard, Andres Velasco, delivered a lecture on the subject 'Fiscal policy in natural resource intensive countries: some theory and the experience of Chile.'
North Africa in Transition: Mobility, Forced Migration and Humanitarian Crises: Session 1
This workshop provided a space for interested academics, practitioners and policy makers to critically engage with the evolving contemporary crises in North Africa. From the end of 2010, a series of unexpected popular uprisings have spread across North Africa and the Middle East. The dramatic unfolding of events has disrupted the ever changing patterns of mobility in the region in new and disturbing ways, including uprooting people, transforming existing migrants into refugees and constraining t
North Africa in Transition: Mobility, Forced Migration and Humanitarian Crises: Session 2
This workshop provided a space for interested academics, practitioners and policy makers to critically engage with the evolving contemporary crises in North Africa. From the end of 2010, a series of unexpected popular uprisings have spread across North Africa and the Middle East. The dramatic unfolding of events has disrupted the ever changing patterns of mobility in the region in new and disturbing ways, including uprooting people,transforming existing migrants into refugees and constraining th
Too smart by half?
The cost benefits of energy efficiency need to be weighed up, but we will be 'smarter consumers' by 2030 explains Dr Michael Pollitt.
Your five-a-day
Dominic Barton, Global Managing Director of McKinsey & Company, explains the five global forces which will transform how the world looks and operates over the next few years
China and the rise of the BRICs
Can the West compete with those 'dragons at our door' with their 'can do' attitudes and double-digit growth figures?
Measuring national 'well-being'
How do we measure 'well-being' and what is its importance to individuals and society? What matters to you?
To AV or not to AV
Will a switch to AV be less 'fair' for the 'sophisticated' UK voter?
Don't worry be happy!
Morale in a workforce can impact productivity by between 10 and 20 per cent according to Dr Ben Hardy, who has just completed a four-year study into the subject
The weakest link?
Top managers 'think', whilst middle managers 'act', but shouldn't both work together to bring about change?
Noticeable by their absence
Dr Munir says that at a time when economists struggled to explain market behaviour, business schools should have grasped the chance to provide a new theoretical understanding of how markets work based on behavioural and historical evidence rather than untested assumptions.
Science and Religion in Islam Today - A Critical Survey
Prof. Nidhal Guessoum : Seminar
Human Enhancement: How far should we go?
Dr Denis Alexander : Lecture
Joel Moses
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Jay Forrester (Part 1)
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Joseph Gavin
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Dana Mead
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5 XCOR Student Showcase Competition: Great Exploration Ideas for the Future
The five final student teams share their 'Revolutionary Exploration Ideas for the 21st Century", which will be judged by an invited panel of explorers. Competition website: http://explore.mit.edu.
10 Closing remarks
Dava J. Newman SM '89 PhD '92, Chair, MIT150 Exploration Symposium; Professor of Aeronautics and Astronautics and Engineering Systems; Director, Technology and Policy Program, MIT
