New Mexico Governor, Bill Richardson, in conversation with Google VP, Elliot Schrage, as part of the Candidates@Google series. This event took place May 14th, 2007 at Google Headquarters in Mountain View, CA.
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Senator Mike Gravel, in conversation with Google Director of Public Policy and Government Affairs, Andrew McLaughlin, as part of the Candidates@Google series. This event took place October 10, 2007 at Google Headquarters in Mountain View, CA
Senator Chris Dodd joins Google General Counsel Kent Walker for a Candidates@Google “fireside chat.” Senator Dodd (D-CT) begins the event with a policy announcement.
Senator Dodd is the senior Senator from Connecticut and chairs the Senate Banking Committee. He was elected to the Senate in 1981 after six years in the House and has been re-elected four times. In January 2007, he announced his candidacy for the Democratic nomination for president.
Senator John McCain in conversation with Google CEO Eric Schmidt as part of the Candidates@Google series. This event took place May 4th, 2007 at Google Headquarters in Mountain View, CA.
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New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg visits Google’s Mountain View, CA, headquarters for a conversation with Google VP Sheryl Sandberg. This event took place on June 18, 2007, as part of the Authors@Google series.
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Nobel Prize-winning economist Joseph Stiglitz speaks about his book, “Making Globalization Work.” This event took place on October 13, 2006, at Google’s Mountain View, CA, headquarters as part of the Authors@Google series.
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In “The Conscience of a Liberal”, Paul Krugman, today’s most widely read economist, studies the past eighty years of American history, from the reforms that tamed the harsh inequality of the Gilded Age to the unraveling of that achievement and the reemergence of immense economic and political inequality since the 1970s. Seeking to understand both what happened to middle-class America and what it will take to achieve a “new New Deal,” Krugman has created a work that weaves together a nuanced account of three generations of history with sharp political, social, and economic analysis.
Paul Krugman, who was named Columnist of the Year by Editor and Publisher magazine, writes a twice-weekly column for the op-ed page of the New York Times. He is a professor of economics and international affairs at Princeton University, and the author or editor of 20 books and more than 200 professional journal articles. In recognition of his work, he has received the John Bates Clark Medal from the American Economic Association, an award given every two years to the top economist under the age of 40. The Economist said he is “the most celebrated economist of his generation.”
This Authors@Google event took place December 14, 2007 at Google Headquarters in Mountain View, CA.
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Economist Jeffrey D. Sachs visits Google’s Mountain View, CA, headquarters to discuss his book, “Common Wealth: Economics for a Crowded Planet.” This event took place on April 9, 2008, as part of the Authors@Google series.
For more information about Professor Sachs, please visit http://www.sachs.earth.columbia.edu
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For the past forty years Noam Chomsky’s writings on politics and language have established him as a preeminent public intellectual and as one of the most original and wide-ranging political and social critics of our time. Among the seminal figures in linguistic theory over the past century, since the 1960s Chomsky has also secured a place as perhaps the leading dissident voice in the United States.
Noam Chomsky is Institute Professor emeritus of linguistics at MIT and the author of numerous books including Chomsky vs. Foucault: A Debate on Human Nature, On Language, Objectivity and Liberal Scholarship, and Towards a New Cold War (all published by The New Press). He lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
This event took place on April 22, 2008 at the Google Cambridge office, as a part of the Authors@Google series.
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The Enchantress of Florence is the story of a woman attempting to command her own destiny in a man’s world. It is the story of two cities, unknown to each other, at the height of their powers–the hedonistic Mughal capital, in which the brilliant Akbar the Great wrestles daily with questions of belief, desire, and the treachery of his sons, and the equally sensual city of Florence during the High Renaissance, where Niccolò Machiavelli takes a starring role as he learns, the hard way, about the true brutality of power.
Salman Rushdie is the author of nine previous novels, including Midnight’s Children (which was awarded the Booker Prize in 1981 and, in 1993, was judged to be the “Booker of Bookers,” the best novel to have won that prize in its first twenty-five years) and The Satanic Verses (winner of the Whitbread Prize for Best Novel). He is also the author of a book of stories, East, West, and three works of nonfiction—Imaginary Homelands, The Jaguar Smile, and The Wizard of Oz. He is co-editor of Mirrorwork, an anthology of contemporary Indian writing.
This event took place on June 18, 2008, as a part of the Authors@Google series.
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