"Mind Over Money" - an entertaining and penetrating exploration of why mainstream economists failed to predict the crash of 2008 and why we so often make irrational financial decisions. The program reveals how our emotions interfere with our decision-making and explores controversial new arguments about the world of finance.

In the face of the recent crash, can a new science that aims to incorporate human psychology into finance - behavioral economics - help us make better financial decisions?

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China's one-child policy led to millions of female infanticides—except in a lush valley known as the “Land Where Women Rule.” Located in the foothills of the...

BBC Debate: Has Human Rights Law achieved more for Humanity than Religion [The Big Questions] 10th May 2015 Shami Chakrabarti (Liberty) Peter Tatchell (LGBT ...

The largest generation of young people the world has ever known is too often associated with violent conflict. With the December 2015 passage of Security Cou...

In the spirit of ideas worth spreading, TEDx is a program of local, self-organized events that bring people together to share a TED-like experience. At a TED...

Ian founded both Team Tassy & Thread in 2010 in the wake of the Haiti earthquake. Team Tassy unlocks the inherent power in every person to end global poverty...