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So
what do economics and stem cell research have in common?
More than you may think...
With the promise of longer life spans through stem cell research,
will the economy and environment be able to support a much
larger and older population? You'll have to come to your own
conclusions on that one, here are some exciting titles that
might help you get there:
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Editor-in-Chief, Handbook of Stem Cells
Vice President of Medical & Scientific Development
Advanced Cell Technology
Adjunct Professor of Surgical Sciences at Wake Forest University
School of Medicine
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"We are able to fix hearts now for mice and cows just
like you repair a bicycle tire. We've used this technology
to generate cartilage, bone, skin, and vital organs. The hope
is that some of us alive today will be able, after a car accident,
to simply go to the doctor's office and we'll grow you a whole
new kidney."
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Nobel Prize, Economics
A Leading Economist of the 20th Century
Editor-in-Chief, Handbook of Economics Series
Stanford University
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"It may seem a little abstract, but once
you can get to the logical reasons why some economies are
related to each other, you can provide a basis for empirical
work. As a matter of fact, my very abstract work, along with
others on general equilibrium (which is the study of the interconnections
of markets; how one market influences another) served as a
basis for a great deal of analysis of economic fluctuations."
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Editor-in-Chief, Encyclopedia of Energy
Editor-in-Chief, Journal of Ecological Economics
Board of Directors, Pardee Institute
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"Here, at the Pardee institute at Boston University,
we bring together scholars who have long term views on what
the future of society, broadly defined will be. We then take
a serious look into the distant future, say 100 to 150 years
out and try to identify the drivers of change that we will
be dealing with."
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Senior Fellow, Gorbachev Foundation of North America
Senior Fellow, Milken Institute
Editor-in-Chief, Handbook of Economics Series
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"At a recent Marschak memorial we had Paul Samuelsen,
one of my teachers at MIT, give his lecture. He was the first
American to win the Nobel Prize in Economics. He gave a very
interesting talk because he was constantly being deluged by
people applying the principles of physics to economics, and
he decided to reverse the trend and start applying the laws
of economics to those of physics. You can derive a lot of
thermodynamics from basic economic principles. People are
surprised by that."
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