How can we tackle the main challenges of our time: the economy in the short-term, life satisfaction in the mid-term, and environment in the long-term? Matthieu Ricard is a Buddhist monk and

How can we tackle the main challenges of our time: the economy in the short-term, life satisfaction in the mid-term, and environment in the long-term? Matthieu Ricard is a Buddhist monk and public thinker whose powerful message has influenced major economists such as Dennis Snower, Amartya Sen, Joseph Stiglitz and George Soros. He has taken his simple, yet radical message to Davos and the United Nations, and now visits the RSA to make a robust case for cultivating altruistic love and compassion as the best means for benefitting society – and ourselves. It seems so simple, but why is it so hard to implement this ancient solution to both our personal and global 21st century predicaments?

Joseph Stiglitz talks about Occupy Wall Street. Joseph E. Stiglitz is a graduate of Amherst College, he received his PHD from MIT and became a full professor at Yale in 1970.  He has taught

Joseph Stiglitz talks about Occupy Wall Street. Joseph E. Stiglitz is a graduate of Amherst College, he received his PHD from MIT and became a full professor at Yale in 1970.  He has taught at Princeton, Stanford, MIT and was the Drummond Professor and a fellow of All Souls College, Oxford. He is now University Professor at Columbia University in New York and Co-Chair of Columbia University's Committee on Global Thought. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in economics for his analyses of markets with asymmetric information.