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  John Perkins

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  However, after several years struggling internally over the role he was playing in crippling foreign economies, he quit his consulting job. In the 1980s Perkins founded and directed a successful independent energy company, which he subsequently sold. Since then he has been heavily involved with non-profit organizations in Ecuador and around the world. He continues this work tod

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  George S. Clason

  George Samuel Clason was an American author. He is most often associated with his book The Richest Man in Babylon which was first published in 1926.

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  Kabir

  Kabīr was a mystic poet and saint of India, whose writings have greatly influenced the Bhakti movement. The name Kabir comes from Arabic al-Kabīr which means "The Great" – the 37th name of God in Islam. Kabir's legacy is today carried forward by the Kabir panth ("Path of Kabir"), a religious community that recognises him as its founder and is one of the Sant Mat sects. Its members, known as Kabir panthis, are estimated to be around 9.6 million. They are spread over north and central India, as well as dispersed with the Indian diaspora across the world, up from 843,171 in the 1901 census.[5] His writings include Bijak, Sakhi Granth, Kabir Granthawali and Anurag Sagar.
  
  Kabir's early life is not firmly established. In Indian tradition, he is co

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  Eric Berger

  Eric Berger is the senior space editor at Ars Technica, covering everything from new space to NASA policy. Eric has an astronomy degree from the University of Texas and a master's in journalism from the University of Missouri. He previously worked at the Houston Chronicle for 17 years, where the paper was a Pulitzer Prize finalist in 2009 for his coverage of Hurricane Ike. A certified meteorologist, Eric founded Space City Weather and lives in Houston.

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  Adam M. Grant

  Adam Grant has been Wharton’s top-rated professor for 7 straight years. As an organizational psychologist, he is a leading expert on how we can find motivation and meaning, and live more generous and creative lives. He has been recognized as one of the world’s 10 most influential management thinkers and Fortune’s 40 under 40.
  
  ​He is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of 5 books that have sold millions of copies and been translated into 35 languages: Think Again, Give and Take, Originals, Option B, and Power Moves. His books have been named among the year’s best by Amazon, Apple, the Financial Times, and the Wall Street Journal. His New York Times article on languishing is one of the most-shared articles of 2021.
  
  Adam hosts WorkLife, a c

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  Abhijit V. Banerjee

  Abhijit Vinayak Banerjee is an Indian economist. He is currently the Ford Foundation International Professor of Economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Banerjee is a co-founder of the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (along with economists Esther Duflo and Sendhil Mullainathan) and a Research Affiliate of Innovations for Poverty Action, a New Haven, Connecticut based research outfit dedicated to creating and evaluating solutions to social and international development problems, and a Member of the Consortium on Financial Systems and Poverty. He was awarded 2019 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences for his experimental approach to alleviating global poverty. He is also the recipient of the inaugural Infosys Prize in

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  Ray Dalio

  Raymond Dalio (born August 8, 1949) is an American investor, hedge fund manager, and philanthropist. Dalio is the founder of investment firm Bridgewater Associates, one of the world's largest hedge funds.

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  Chu Lai

  Đại tá, nhà văn Chu Lai có tên khai sinh là Chu Văn Lai, sinh ngày 5 tháng 2 năm 1946, tại xã Hưng Đạo, huyện Phù Tiên, tỉnh Hưng Yên, hiện ở Hà Nội. Ông là đảng viên Đảng Cộng sản Việt Nam, hội viên Hội Nhà văn Việt Nam (từ năm 1980).
  
  Ông là con trai của nhà viết kịch Học Phi. Trong chiến tranh Việt Nam ông công tác trong đoàn kịch nói Tổng cục Chính trị rồi trở thành chiến sĩ đặc công hoạt động trong vùng Sài Gòn. Sau 1973, ông về làm trợ lý tuyên huấn Quân khu 7. Đến cuối năm 1974 ông tham dự trại sáng tác văn học Tổng cục Chính trị và sau đó học tại Trường Viết văn Nguyễn Du khóa 1. Sau khi tốt nghiệp, ông biên tập và sáng tác cho Tạp chí Văn nghệ Quân đội. Nhà văn Chu Lai còn viết một số kịch bản sân khấu, kịch bản phim và tham gia đóng

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  Phùng Quán

  Năm 1945, ông tham gia Vệ quốc quân, là chiến sĩ trinh sát Trung đoàn 101 (tiền thân là Trung đoàn Trần Cao Vân). Sau đó ông tham gia Thiếu sinh quân Liên khu IV, đoàn Văn công Liên khu IV.
  Đầu năm 1954, ông làm việc tại Cơ quan sinh hoạt Văn nghệ quân đội thuộc Tổng Cục Chính trị Quân đội Nhân dân Việt Nam (tiền thân của Tạp chí Văn nghệ Quân đội).
  Tác phẩm đầu tay Vượt Côn Đảo của ông được giải thưởng của Hội Nhà văn Việt Nam năm 1955. Về quá trình viết tác phẩm này, trong di cảo hồi ký "Tôi đã trở thành nhà văn như thế nào" do Nhà xuất bản Văn Nghệ thành phố Hồ Chí Minh xuất bản năm 2007, ông kể nhiều chi tiết rất thú vị về sự ngẫu nhiên và tình cờ đưa ông từ một người lính trở thành một nhà văn và những oan khuất phải gánh chịu nhưng với

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  Thomas Piketty

  Thomas Piketty (French: [tɔma pikɛti]; born May 7, 1971) is a French economist who works on wealth and income inequality. He is the director of studies at the École des hautes études en sciences sociales (EHESS) and professor at the Paris School of Economics. He is the author of the best selling book Capital in the Twenty-First Century (2013), which emphasizes the themes of his work on wealth concentrations and distribution over the past 250 years. The book argues that the rate of capital return in developed countries is persistently greater than the rate of economic growth, and that this will cause wealth inequality to increase in the future. To address this problem, he proposes redistribution through a global tax on wealth.
  
  Piketty was bor

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  Friedrich A. Hayek

  Friedrich August von Hayek CH was an Austrian and British economist and philosopher known for his defense of classical liberalism and free-market capitalism against socialist and collectivist thought. He is considered by some to be one of the most important economists and political philosophers of the twentieth century. Hayek's account of how changing prices communicate signals which enable individuals to coordinate their plans is widely regarded as an important achievement in economics. Hayek also wrote on the topics of jurisprudence, neuroscience and the history of ideas.
  
  Hayek is one of the most influential members of the Austrian School of economics, and in 1974 shared the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics with Gunnar Myrdal "for their p

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  Frédéric Bastiat

  Claude Frédéric Bastiat (29 June 1801 – 24 December 1850) was a French classical liberal theorist, political economist, and member of the French assembly.

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  Murray N. Rothbard

  Murray Newton Rothbard was an influential American historian, natural law theorist and economist of the Austrian School who helped define modern libertarianism. Rothbard took the Austrian School's emphasis on spontaneous order and condemnation of central planning to an individualist anarchist conclusion, which he termed "anarcho-capitalism".
  
  In the 1970s, he assisted Charles Koch and Ed Crane to found the Cato Institute as libertarian think tank.

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  Lionel Shriver

  Lionel Shriver's novels include the New York Times bestseller The Post-Birthday World and the international bestseller We Need to Talk About Kevin, which won the 2005 Orange Prize and has now sold over a million copies worldwide. Earlier books include Double Fault, A Perfectly Good Family, and Checker and the Derailleurs. Her novels have been translated into twenty-five languages. Her journalism has appeared in the Guardian, the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, and many other publications. She lives in London and Brooklyn, New York.
  
  Author photo copyright Jerry Bauer, courtesy of Harper Collins.
  

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  Bent Flyvbjerg

  Bent Flyvbjerg is a Danish economic geographer. He is the Villum Kann Rasmussen Professor at the IT University of Copenhagen.
  
  His research focuses on management of megaprojects, including the Olympic Games, and cities.
  
  He is the author or editor of 10 books and more than 200 papers in professional journals and edited volumes. His publications have been translated into 19 languages.
  
  Research interests:
  Decision Making, Risk, Project Management, Infrastructure, Cities

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  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb spent 21 years as a risk taker (quantitative trader) before becoming a flaneur and researcher in philosophical, mathematical and (mostly) practical problems with probability. 

  
  Taleb is the author of a multivolume essay, the Incerto (The Black Swan, Fooled by Randomness, Antifragile, and Skin in the Game) an investigation of opacity, luck, uncertainty, probability, human error, risk, and decision making when we don’t understand the world, expressed in the form of a personal essay with autobiographical sections, stories, parables, and philosophical, historical, and scientic discussions in nonover lapping volumes that can be accessed in any order.
  
  In addition to his trader life, Taleb has also written, as a backup of the

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  Graham Hancock

  Graham Hancock is a British writer and journalist. His books include Lords of Poverty, The Sign and the Seal, Fingerprints of the Gods, Keeper of Genesis (released in the US as Message of the Sphinx), The Mars Mystery, Heaven's Mirror (with wife Santha Faiia), Underworld: The Mysterious Origins of Civilization, Talisman: Sacred Cities, Secret Faith (with co-author Robert Bauval), Supernatural: Meeting with the Ancient Teachers of Mankind and Magicians of the Gods. He also wrote and presented the Channel 4 documentaries Underworld: Flooded Kingdoms of the Ice Age and Quest for the Lost Civilisation. His first novel, Entangled, was published in 2010.

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  Peter Lynch

  Peter Lynch is an American businessman and stock investor. Lynch graduated from Boston College in 1965 and earned a Master of Business Administration from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania in 1968.
  
  Lynch worked at Fidelity Investments where named head of the then obscure Magellan Fund which had $18 million in assets. By the time Lynch resigned as a fund manager in 1990, the fund had grown to more than $14 billion in assets with more than 1,000 individual stock positions. From 1977 until 1990, the Magellan fund averaged a 29.2% return and as of 2003 had the best 20-year return of any mutual fund ever.
  
  Though he continues to work part-time as vice chairman of Fidelity Management & Research Co., the investment adviser arm of F

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  Daron Acemoğlu

  Daron Acemoglu is the Elizabeth and James Killian Professor of Economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. In 2005 he won the prestigious John Bates Clark medal, awarded to the best economist under 40.

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  Walter Isaacson

  Walter Isaacson, a professor of history at Tulane, has been CEO of the Aspen Institute, chair of CNN, and editor of Time. He is the author of 'Leonardo da Vinci; The Innovators; Steve Jobs; Einstein: His Life and Universe; Benjamin Franklin: An American Life; and Kissinger: A Biography, and the coauthor of The Wise Men: Six Friends and the World They Made. Visit him at Isaacson.Tulane.edu and on Twitter at @WalterIsaacson

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  Henry Hazlitt

  Henry Stuart Hazlitt was an American journalist who wrote about business and economics for such publications as The Wall Street Journal, The Nation, The American Mercury, Newsweek, and The New York Times.

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  Robert DiYanni

  Robert DiYanni is an adjunct professor of humanities and an instructional consultant at the Center for the Advancement of Teaching at New York University. In these capacities he teaches courses on critical thinking, interdisciplinary humanities, commerce and culture, and business and its publics, and conducts workshops and consultations with faculty throughout the university on aspects of pedagogical practice. Before coming to NYU, Dr. DiYanni taught at Queens College and Pace University and as a visiting professor at Harvard. He also served, for ten years, as Director of International Services at The College Board.

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  Steven Horwitz

  American economist of the Austrian School and Charles A. Dana Professor of Economics at St. Lawrence University in Canton, NY. He has written extensively on Austrian economics, Hayekian political economy, monetary theory and history, and macroeconomics. He is an Affiliated Senior Scholar at Mercatus Center at George Mason University and Senior Fellow of the Fraser Institute in Canada.

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  Thomas Sowell

  Thomas Sowell is an American economist, social philosopher, and political commentator. He is a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution. With widely published commentary and books—and as a guest on TV and radio—he became a well-known voice in the American conservative movement as a prominent black conservative. He was a recipient of the National Humanities Medal from President George W. Bush in 2002.
  Sowell was born in Gastonia, North Carolina and grew up in Harlem, New York City. Due to poverty and difficulties at home, he dropped out of Stuyvesant High School and worked various odd jobs, eventually serving in the United States Marine Corps during the Korean War. Afterward, he took night classes at Howard University and then attended Harvar

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  Maitry Roy Moulik

  মৈত্রী রায় মৌলিকের জন্ম কলকাতায়। পেশায় ভূবিজ্ঞানী। প্রেসিডেন্সি কলেজ থেকে ভূবিজ্ঞানে বিএসসি। ইন্ডিয়ান ইন্সটিটিউট অফ টেকনোলজি, বম্বে থেকে এমএসসি ও এমটেক। বর্তমানে ফিল্ড জিয়োলজিস্ট হিসাবে কাজ করছেন। পরিবেশ বিজ্ঞানে গবেষণার কাজ করছেন নিউজার্সির রাটগার্স স্টেট ইউনিভার্সিটি থেকে। কর্মসূত্রে ভারতবর্ষের প্রত্যন্ত অঞ্চল ঘুরেছেন। গল্প, কবিতা রচনার পাশাপাশি অনুবাদ-কর্মে নিযুক্ত। মহাত্মা গাঁধী সর্বোদয়া মণ্ডল সংস্থা থেকে প্রকাশিত পুস্তক সেবাগ্রাম টু সোধগ্রাম বাংলা অনুবাদ করেছেন। তাঁর লেখা কবিতা, গল্প ও উপন্যাস সানন্দা, উনিশকুড়ি সহ বিভিন্ন পত্রিকায় প্রকাশিত হয়েছে। এছাড়া বিশিষ্ট কিছু লিটল ম্যাগাজিনের সঙ্গে যুক্ত।

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