Stan Alcorn

Three years ago, the world was falling apart. Lehman Brothers was bankrupt, Merrill Lynch was bought for peanuts and the government's response wa...

The numbers are bad: Unemployment is at 9.2% after rising for three straight months. Goldman Sachs cut its GDP growth forecast from 2% down to 1....

Peruvian economist Hernando de Soto is best known for the big, paradigm-shifting idea of his 2000 book: The Mystery of Capital: Why Capitalism Tr...

Next in our series of video interviews from the Institute for New Economic Thinking conference: Carmen Reinhart, fellow at the Peterson Institute...

Last in our series of video interviews from the Institute for New Economic Thinking conference: George Soros, chair of Soros Fund Management LLC...

Next in our series of video interviews from the Institute for New Economic Thinking conference: Richard Koo, chief analyst at Nomura Research...

Next in our series of video interviews from the Institute for New Economic Thinking conference: Simon Johnson, MIT economist and co-author of "13...

Next in our series of video interviews from the Institute for New Economic Thinking conference: Niall Ferguson, financial historian and author of ...

Next in our series of video interviews from the Institute for New Economic Thinking conference: Kenneth Rogoff, economist and co-author of "This...

At a conference this weekend put on by the Institute for New Economic Thinking, David Brancaccio asked some of the world's great minds one question...