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Lessons from Mark Carney

Mark Carney, who led the central banks of Canada and England, coined the “Tragedy of the Horizon” to explain why markets struggle with climate change’s systemic financial risks. His work probes the gap between market prices and human values.
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Lessons from Luigi Zingales

Luigi Zingales, an economist at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business, studies finance, economics, and politics. His distinction between pro-market and pro-business policies illuminates how competition, regulatory capture, and rent-seeking affect growth and democratic institutions.
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Lessons from Larry Summers

Larry Summers, a former U.S. Treasury Secretary, National Economic Council director, and Harvard University president, revived secular stagnation to explain persistent low growth and interest rates. His views on fiscal policy and technological change reveal how he reads the modern economy.
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Lessons from Kwame Anthony Appiah

Kwame Anthony Appiah, a British-Ghanaian philosopher, examines the social fictions that divide people and the obligations owed to strangers. His cosmopolitanism asks why labels endure, how moral revolutions happen, and how a shared world can survive deep disagreement.
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Lessons from Kim Bowes

Kim Bowes, a University of Pennsylvania archaeologist and historian, studies the everyday lives of the Roman poor. Using material evidence from the Roman Peasant Project and domestic sites, she reconstructs how the vast majority of Romans actually lived.
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Lessons from Joseph Stiglitz

Joseph Stiglitz, an economist, showed how unequal information between buyers and sellers can make markets fail. His work traces how this imbalance drives inequality, enables monopoly extraction, weakens democracy, and makes policy choices central to building a fairer system.
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Lessons from Jill Lepore

Jill Lepore, a Harvard historian and New Yorker staff writer, examines how politics, law, and media shape American society. Her approach to interpreting the past connects historical inquiry to enduring questions of civic life within American society.
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Lessons from Jerusalem Demsas

Jerusalem Demsas, a journalist covering housing and infrastructure, argues that America’s housing shortage is a self-inflicted policy failure. Her reporting shows how zoning rules, neighborhood vetoes, and local political control block development needed for affordability and economic mobility.

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