Naomi Klein: This Changes Everything. Capitalism vs. Climate

Shareholders vs Stakeholders Capitalism

Disclosure: Psychology Changes Everything

We review literature examining the effects of laws and regulations that require public disclosure of information. These requirements are most sensibly imposed in situations characterized by misaligned incentives and asymmetric information between, for example, a buyer and seller or an advisor and advisee. We review the economic literature relevant to such disclosure, and then discuss how differ...

Naomi Oreskes

Models in science may be used for various purposes: organizing data, synthesizing information, and making predictions. However, the value of model predictions is undermined by their uncertainty, which arises primarily from the fact that our models of complex natural systems are always open. Models can never fully specify the systems that they describe, and therefore their predictions are always...

Speaker: Naomi Fineberg, UK

s | 47 PL06 Obsessive Compulsive Disorder Chair: Brian Dean, Australia Speaker: Naomi Fineberg, UK Title: Mapping Compulsivity: Cognitive Domains, Neural Circuitry And Treatment Fineberg Naomi A 1,2,3, Apergis-Schoute Annemieke M4, Vaghi Mathilde 4,5, Banca Paula 4,5, Chamberlain Samuel R3,4,6, Cinosi Eduardo2,7, Reid Jemma1,2, Bullmore Edward T3, Sahakian Barbara J3,4, Robbins Trevor W4,5. 1H...

Why the Lean Start - Up Changes Everything

Launching a new enterprise—whether it’s a tech start-up, a small business, or an initiative within a large corporation—has always been a hit-or-miss proposition. According to the decades-old formula, you write a business plan, pitch it to investors, assemble a team, introduce a product, and start selling as hard as you can. And somewhere in this sequence of events, you’ll probably suffer a fata...