[Mitworld] Simon Johnson on 13 Bankers, Panel on Rebuilding Haiti

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MIT World Newsletter

Volume 9, Number 32 |  April 7, 2010

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13 Bankers: The Wall Street Takeover and the Next Financial Meltdown
April 2, 2010

Simon Johnson warns in a new book that a “new financial oligarchy” threatens not only the nation’s 
economy, but its political core. In 13 Bankers: The Wall Street Takeover and the Next Financial 
Meltdown, Johnson, says the book provides “the back story” for the 2008 financial crisis “and 
for all the issues being raised now around financial reform.

http://mitworld.mit.edu/video/760

Speaker:
Simon Johnson PhD '89
Ronald A. Kurtz (1954) Professor of Entrepreneurship, MIT Sloan School of Management


Event Host:
MIT Sloan School of Management

"It's about power of private interests verses democracy. Democracy is messy, democracy is crazy, 
democracy is all of us."
-Simon Johnson

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Rebuilding Haiti
February 23, 2010

In the aftermath of the January 2010 earthquake, four panelists with strong personal and 
professional ties to Haiti share their insights about the different paths to rebuilding 
and reconstructing the country.

http://mitworld.mit.edu/video/758

Speakers:
Erica James
Associate Professor of Anthropology

Cherie Miot Abbanat
Lecturer in Communications

Department of Urban Studies and Planning, and Department of Architecture

Dale Joachim
Visiting Scientist, MIT Media Lab

Michel DeGraff
Associate Professor of Linguistics


Event Host:
Center for International Studies

"Establishing and maintaining security is of paramount urgency as is sustained effort to bolster 
Haitian institutions. However, such processes cannot be founded upon practices that depict Haiti 
and its citizens solely through a lens of victimization, failure, or vulnerability."
-Erica James

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In The Pipeline:

Race from France to France, Leave Antarctica to Starboard

Presented By:
MIT Museum

Speaker:
Rich Wilson
Extreme Ocean Racer
The Great American III

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