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Professor Edmondson is the Novartis Professor of Leadership and Management at Harvard Business School, a chair established to support study of human interactions that lead to the creation of successful enterprises and the betterment of society. She studies leadership, psychological safety, and organizational learning.

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As Assistant to the President for Economic Policy and Director of the National Economic Council (2017-2018), Gary Cohn managed the US economic policy agenda, stimulating economic expansion, job creation, and wage increases through historic tax and regulatory reform. Prior to that he was the President and Chief Operating Officer at Goldman Sachs where he worked for more than 25 years.

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Klaas Knot is President of De Nederlandsche Bank and is the Chair of the Financial Stability Board. He is also a member of the Governing Council and the General Council of the European Central Bank, member of the European Systemic Risk Board, member of the International Monetary Fund's Board of Governors and a member of the Board of Directors of the Bank for International Settlements.

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Diane Coyle

Professor Diane Coyle is the Bennett Professor of Public Policy at the University of Cambridge and the author of the book Cogs & Monsters: What Economics Is, and What It Should Be.

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“Cogs & Monsters”: An Interview with Professor Diane Coyle

by Diane Coyle

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May 15, 2022

We are the cogs: although it has moved on from the days when the Phillips Machine literally modeled the economy in a mechanistic way, conventional economics treats us as individual decision makers acting predictably. Its approach is ‘methodological individualism’, in the jargon of social science. The monsters populate the as-yet unmapped world of today’s economy, just like the blank areas on old maps labeled ‘Here Be Monsters’. One of the important features of digital ... cont

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