Lectures tagged "Nobel Prize"

Joseph Stiglitz: America and the Sinking of the World Economy
Joseph Stiglitz: America and the Sinking of the World Economy
Joseph E. Stiglitz
January 25, 2010
00:50:03
Nobel Prize--winning economist Joseph Stiglitz talks about his new treatise, Freefall: America, Free Markets, and the Sinking of the World Economy, in conversation with writer and editor Cullen Murphy.
Orhan Pamuk: The Museum of Innocence
Orhan Pamuk
October 24, 2009
01:00:01
Orhan Pamuk discusses his new novel, The Museum of Innocence, his first since winning the 2006 Nobel Prize in Literature. Pamuk talks about literature, love, and life with commentator Christopher Lydon. Co-sponsored by PEN New England and the New York Review of Books.
Conscience of a Liberal
Paul Krugman
February 9, 2009
01:16:42
Nobel Prize-winning economist Paul Krugman talks with David Gergen of the Harvard Kennedy School about the foundations of the liberal political and economic systems. In the current economic downturn, Krugman asks what we learn from past liberal successes and failures.
Frank Wilzcek: Understanding the Universe
Frank Wilczek
September 15, 2008
01:03:57
The 2004 Nobel Prize in Physics winner, Frank Wilczek, explains the universe, synthesis the Grand Unification of Forces, and shares his vision of a new Golden Age in physics– all for the layperson, in an event celebrating the publication of his new book, The Lightness of Being: Mass, Ether and the U
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Black Writers: Wole Soyinka
Wole Soyinka
April 21, 2003
01:19:19
Wole Soyinka reads from his book Samarkand & Other Markets I Have Known. In 1986, Soyinka became the first African to be awarded the Nobel Prize in literature. In plays, novels, and poems, he has chronicled the political turmoil of his native Nigeria.