Assorted Talks

Indian Maths – So how were these advances passed on to the rest of the world? And why was the contribution of mathematicians from this area ignored by Europe for centuries?

Don Boudreaux on Law and Legislation

Science Fatwah? - Part 1: Charles Harper jnr and Richard Sloan
There are signs of a new anti-religion militancy on the part of scientists and atheists in the United States. In the first of a two part series, this week we speak to two of the protagonists at a recent science conference hosted by the Salk Institute in California

Metaphysics in Australia

What's wrong with slavery?

Apocalypse now

World Energy Outlook 2006: Mapping a New Energy Future
Fatih Birol, Chief Economist and Head of the Economic Analysis Division, International Energy Agency
See also ExxonMobil’s The Outlook for Energy, A view to 2030

Clean-Coal Technology and Policy Issues for the US (RadioEconomics)

A policy address by Turki Al-Faisal, Saudi Arabian Ambassador to the United States

India - an Emerging Giant
A Conference organized by Jadgish Bhagwati and Arvind Panagariya, professors of Indian Economy, Columbia University

The Stern Review on the Economics of Climate Change
Dimitri Zenghelis, UK government economic adviser to the Stern Review on Economic of Climate Change, commissioned by Chancellor Gordon Brown

Uncovering Iran- The Revolution and the Coup

Abbas El-Zein: memoirs of a 'Foreign Arab'

The Last Moghul
William Dalrymple is an award winning author, whose career spans travel writing as well as a series of books on Indian history that began with White Mughals...and continues with the book, "The Last Mughal: The Fall of a Dynasty, Delhi, 1857", in which he argues that 1857 has long been misunderstood by historians - Indian and British alike.

Shanta Devarajan and Michael Clemons on Development Funding

Tough Choices, by Carly Fiorina
After six years as CEO of computer firm Hewlett-Packard, Carly Fiorina was ousted by the company’s board of directors. In her memoir, Tough Choices, Fiorina has written a memoir of not only the events leading up to her firing, but also her career and rise in business.

WorldBank Seminar Series: Professor Eduardo Engel
Although they have become increasingly popular as tools for development, partnerships between government and private companies (public-private partnerships) have achieved only mixed results. In this seminar, sponsored by the World Bank’s Poverty Reduction and Economic Management (PREM) Network, the dilemma of the partnership approach was examined by Eduardo Engel, Professor of Economics at Yale University.

Some picks from Foreign Exchange with Fareed Zakaria- Interview with Saad Eddin Ibrahim from Egypt and the interview about the UN Human Development Report 2006- Beyond Scarcity: Power, Poverty and the Global Water Crisis