US Less Educated Than Bulgaria? - Austan Goolsbee Video
Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2009/10/22/A_Conversation_with_US_Chief_Economist_Austan_Goolsbee
Austan Goolsbee, Economics Adviser to Barack Obama, iterates the importance of mathematic literacy for the U.S. The low rates of college-educated young Americans indicate a bleak financial future for the country, he says.
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Economics adviser to Barack Obama during the campaign, and now a member of the President's Council of Economic Advisers and chief economist of the Economic Recovery Advisory Board, Austan Goolsbee is a key figure in framing the economic thinking of the Obama administration.
Perhaps most importantly for Silicon Valley, he's an economist clued in to the tech world. His economics papers cover such topics as the impact of taxes on technology diffusion, the impact of internet subsidies on public schools, and the economic impact of leisure time spent on the internet.
He's worked closely with Richard Thaler and Cass Sunstein of Nudge fame, and thinks a lot about the power of default options to shape behavior, a topic that any web developer should also know by heart. - Web 2.0 Summit
Austan Goolsbee is a member of the Council of Economic Advisers. Goolsbee is also serving as staff director and chief economist on the President's Economic Recovery Advisory Board.
Goolsbee was the Robert P. Gwinn Professor of Economics at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business. He was an economic adviser to Barack Obama's 2004 Senate race before becoming a senior economic adviser to Senator Obama's 2008 Presidential campaign.
He is a member of the panel of Economic Advisers to the Congressional Budget Office, a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research, and a research fellow at the American Bar Foundation. He is a Senior Economist to the Democratic Leadership Council and the Progressive Policy Institute. He is also a frequent contributor to the New York Times. He was recently a Fulbright Scholar and a recipient of an Alfred P. Sloan Fellowship.
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LexPhilogus: I'd also like to add some perspective to this whole affair. You have a guy/girl from the UK, Germany, France and maybe other places using this video as a pretext to take snide little jabs at America. I only dredge up their current and past faults to give a more accurate contrast. And yes hypocrisy is part of what I want to flush out, on the part of some Europeans, but I can undercut most of the false assumptions and leaps to conclusions with facts.
LexPhilogus: Yeah, I've been using data similar to that against these people, but the index I used was different. The source I used still trounced every other country. I just think it's fascinating how some Europeans think their experts about this Nation. It's also downright stalker like too, their feminine obsession with us. I once saw a video of some British primary school. All of these kids knew who Obama was, few knew who Gordon Brown was. That is PATHETIC!
LexPhilogus: It's extremely difficult to pin point what the United States role is in the totality of death toll on the Indians because at periods you have the French from Louisiana up through Ohio, the Spanish to the west, and British to the east. Here everything is technically European until independence. Most Indian deaths were pure accident as they were the result of epidemics carried over from Europe. And, of course, these atrocities happened in less enlightened times than the period of Nazi Germany.
faelismaegnus: Look at the crap you punks write here! You bunch of Yankee and European metrosexuals couldn't argue your way out of a drunken beerfest! All you little northern internet jockies are in for a big surprise! 40% of Americans self-identify as conservative. 40% self-identify as independent. Only a measly 20% self-identify as liberals (leftists twits). Obama got lucky. But lightning won't strike twice for you ignorant worms. You should all immigrate to Bulgaria.
kmardes: well, looks like you just confirmed what this speaker said about education in the states haha billy bob joe, your numbers don't add up.. quoting affiliation in ar-kan-saw aint cuva da hol kantree. got it?
faelismaegnus: Bye, retard. Don't have time educate you. You first need to be potty-trained.
znubzz188: it's 'emigrate' to bulgaria you silly ;) and ur right by the way americans should be desperate, but they not right because of their conservative identity. watch the decline of an empire!
znubzz188: it just shows how much media coverage the USA has gotten over last few decades and yes it is a problem. but what do you expect? we're talking about the a leading economic and military force with a distinct cultural identity, both very much focused on itself as having a very influential foreign policy. be it a good or a bad think for the world stability.
znubzz188: dude this video sucks. Solely because no one can trace his statements.. where does it say that this is the ranking of level of education in the world?
faelismaegnus: They will be immigrating into Bulgaria and emigrating out of the USA. But that's just a small error. You made a big error thinking that Americans are "desperate". We don't need an empire. We don't have an empire. You have no idea what an empire is. The Soviet Union was an empire, just as Russia was an empire. The USA does have a strong foreign policy, but it is not imperialism. If American power in the world does decline, you too will suffer because of it. Don't believe the anti-American hype.
znubzz188: what exactly are you afraid of?
faelismaegnus: If you don't know, then there's no use in me answering you. Study human history.
znubzz188: are you into Hobbe's by any chance? i'm not so much into of his views. We've had the rise of the UN and the fall of the Berlin wall and armed conflicts between nations only play a minor role in the current state of affairs. The problems in security we have today are totally explicable in terms of globalization theory and its solutions definately do not closely resemble the US' Leviathanish foreign policy with Bush. In that perspective I have trust in Obama and the global justice movement.
faelismaegnus: I'm more into Winkler and Huntington. But Obama is not part of any global justice movement. If you please, elaborate on this "global justice movement".
znubzz188: huntingron I know, but could you name a book written by winkler plz? the global justice movement refers to the collaboration of various activist movements through fora like the World Social Forum. They are the 'losers' of globalization, whom are invisible. They join forces and try to transcend their cultural differences by focussing on real issues. I consider this process of globalization more important and more vital the clash of civilizations as described by Huntington.
faelismaegnus: "Germany: The Long Road" West by Heinrich August Winkler. He's written others. I think you are wrong to think culture clash is not important. I also think that globalization is important, but to pretend that this means you can ignore the current cultural clashes, largest of which is that of Islam vs The West, then I think you're being dangerously naive.
znubzz188: It IS important, it CANNOT be ignored. BUT the issue at stake is how to deal with the intermingling of cultures as a result of globalization. on that point i'd rather focus on the World Social Forum than Islam vs. the West, because this clash has been intensified due to stigmatization. the image of the middle east in the west is singular and the other way around. who is aware that iran has the largest pro democracy population in the east?
faelismaegnus: Focusing on globalization is not going to help avoid the aggression of Islam against the West and the rest of the world. Islam is the problem, not globalization.
znubzz188: Are you aware that globalisation is shaping current history much like the Cold War was in the past? Its the driving force behind every major event in the past twenty years. The extremist Islamist movement is no exception. I'd recommend you the book Globalized Islam: The Search for a New Ummah by Olivier Roy. He'll also reveal alot to you about stigmatisation of the Islam.
faelismaegnus: I will look into your book, but you are not talking to a dummy here, but to someone who knows Islam inside and out and discusses world affairs with Muslims from around the world. I suggest that you are naive about Islam. Do an objective study of Islam through the ages since it began. Also, learn the basic worldview of the Muslim regarding the non-Muslim world. Islam is Islamic Globalization. Of course economic and western globalization effects Islam, but Islam predates western capitalism.
LexPhilogus: The problem with your argument is that it amounts to a one way street, and is essentially not much more than a cheap talking point. Nothing you've said is necessarily incorrect in that globalization affects Islam except that you over emphasize it as a key factor. No one in the west is willfully targeting Mosques because of Muslim stigma against liberal democracy. No one in the West blows themselves up in a city square because of a Jesus spoof.
LexPhilogus: If lack of economic opportunity for broad swaths of the Muslim world, were the causal factor for extremism, Mohammad Atta sure didnt get the memo. He was a PHD engineering student at a German University and his father was an Egyptian Lawyer. There are many other examples of Muslim extremists whos economic opportunities were commensurate with Attas. Clearly something else is at play here.
LexPhilogus: They are the 'losers' of globalization, whom are invisible There are many third world countries that are allegedly the losers of globalization in which significant segments of their populations arent a part of an international enterprise seeking to destroy western civilization. Can anyone really demonstrate that the middle east would be better off if the rest of the world werent so dependent on their oil?
mcdonalds411: This idiot called it "Vulgaria". Maybe he should go back to school, but not an American one.
Tihbialdunav: US is not righ below, it's FAR behind Bulgaria in education. What Americans study in college, we study in high school. And I'm not even mentioning foreign language skills, but math, literature, chemistry and computer science...Most high-tech US companies rely on foreign labor force, mainly from Eastern Europe...
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