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The 2008 Lindau Meeting in Economics

I'm currently going through a period of intellectual voracity. Unfortunately there are too few hours in a day and too few days in a week. The pile of books and papers that I have to read, want to read and would like to read is growing day by day. Worse still, the growth rate is accelerating.

I haven't had time to watch any of the videos of the 2008 Lindau Meeting in Economic Sciences, although I did watch a few excerpts and read the abstracts. This post is actually some kind of a reminder to myself to make time to watch some of the lectures.

Every year since 1951 some Nobel laureates are invited to give a lecture during an informal meeting for young researchers from around the world in the city of Lindau on Lake Constance. Videos of this year's lectures as well as some from previous years are available online for everyone to watch. It shows that the internet can indeed be a democratic medium.

This year's meeting in economics featured lectures by Edmund Phelps, Robert Solow, Joseph Stiglitz, Clive Granger, Finn Kydland and Myron Scholes, among others.

If you're more interested in physics you can also watch videos of the lectures by some Nobel laureates in Physics.