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Lessons from Henry Farrell

Henry Farrell, a political scientist, studies how states weaponize the infrastructure of globalization, turning financial networks, supply chains, and internet traffic into instruments of coercion while probing technology’s political economy and the conditions for democratic problem-solving.
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Lessons from Hal Varian

Hal Varian bridged academia and technology as a UC Berkeley professor and Google’s Chief Economist, applying information economics to online ad auctions and the Varian Rule while examining how data, automation, and digital goods reshape markets.
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Lessons from Glen Weyl

Glen Weyl, an economist focused on institutional redesign, developed Quadratic Voting and Plurality to balance individual preferences with collective cooperation, offering mathematical approaches to making property, voting, digital identity, markets, and democracy work for more people.
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Lessons from George Selgin

George Selgin, a Cato Institute monetary economist, argues that competitive private banking can issue money more stably than central banks and advances the productivity norm, the idea that prices should naturally fall as economic efficiency improves.
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Lessons from Garry Kasparov

Garry Kasparov, World Chess Champion for 15 years, combined deep preparation with aggressive play, faced IBM’s Deep Blue, and later wrote about strategy and opposing Vladimir Putin, linking decision-making, human-machine collaboration, and political survival.
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Lessons from Ed Boyden

Ed Boyden, an MIT neuroscientist who co-invented optogenetics and expansion microscopy, studies the brain’s physical and chemical mechanics to map and control circuits, treat neurological disease, understand consciousness, and explore the future of human intelligence.
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Lessons from Doug Irwin

Doug Irwin, an economist and historian of U.S. trade policy, shows how tariffs, protectionism, legislative bargaining, and deficits interact, grounding debates about international markets in the political mechanics and historical consequences of restricting trade.
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Lessons from Dani Rodrik

Dani Rodrik, a Turkish-American Harvard economist, studies trade, industrial policy, and development through the Globalization Trilemma: full economic integration cannot coexist with both national sovereignty and democracy, revealing why domestic priorities repeatedly collide with global markets.

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