Meet the Author
At a time when trust in experts and facts is eroding and civil discourse sometimes seems impossible, a space for coming together, for listening to and learning from each other, is more needed than ever before.
The Meet the Author events at the OECD Forum offer a unique opportunity to go deeper into the challenges our societies are facing today and to explore what brings us together. Held in the more informal Discovery Lab space, these sessions are designed for exchanging new ideas and for encountering creative new voices and views. Each year we identify authors and books at the heart of OECD Forum agenda, addressing issues and dimensions that provide much needed complementarity to the OECD’s own analysis.
First held in 2015, Meet the Author has become an annual favourite. This year, why not take the discussion further and join in the Discovery Lab to share your perspective with authors, the OECD and each other?
Debate
“Getting the governance of information and production disruption right is critical…”
Digital DNA: Disruption and the Challenges for Global Governance
“Technologies of poverty management are not neutral. They are shaped by … fear of economic insecurity and hatred of the poor; they in turn shape the politics and experience of poverty.”
Automating Inequality - How High-Tech Tools Profile, Police, and Punish the Poor
“Have we lost sight of the common good? If so, how might economics help us get back on track in pursuing it?”
Jean Tirole
Explore
« En apparence, c’est une ville. Dans ses profondeurs, le monde d’aujourd’hui. »
Raphaëlle Bacqué and Ariane Chemin
“Robotisation, automation and digitalisation can radically transform the structure of the global economy.”
TECHtonic Shifts
Zoltán Cséfalvay
“The book I began to write was only in part a book about Delhi. It was just as much about the global system itself.”
Capital: The Eruption of Delhi
Rana Dasgupta
“We have failed to fully appreciate how deeply housing is implicated in the creation of poverty.”
Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City
“The people of Janesville do not give up.”
“It is time to look at income inequality not as a national phenomenon only, as has been done for the last century, but as a global one.”
Global Inequality: A New Approach for the Age of Globalization
Branko Milanovic
Connect
“The complacent class: the growing number of people in our society who accept, welcome, or even enforce a resistance to things new, different, or challenging.”
The Complacent Class: The Self-Defeating Quest for the American Dream
“Our lives today are full of cognitive dissonance, all based around some of the tensions which happen when you put human beings … in a computerized social world that is literally programmed to be without limit and never switched off.”
Fully Connected: Surviving and Thriving in an Age of Overload
“[J]ournalism, vigorously practised, really is a necessary concomitant to democratic, civil societies…”
The Power and the Story: The Global Battle for News and Information
John Lloyd
“Until recently, liberal democracy reigned triumphant. … Politically speaking, it seemed, the future would not be much different from the past.Then the future came – and it turned out to be very different indeed.”
The People Vs. Democracy: Why Our Freedom Is in Danger and How to Save It
“How do societies, governments, or governing systems solve complex problems, or to put it another way, how do collective problems find collective solutions?”
Big Mind: How Collective Intelligence Can Change Our World
“In 1984, 38% of computer science degrees were awarded to women. In 2014, less than 10% were. … It’s time to change this depressing statistic.”
Women in Tech: Take Your Career to the Next Level with Practical Advice and Inspiring Stories
Tarah Wheeler
Highlights from 2017
Matthew d’Ancona, Post Truth: the New War on Truth and How to Fight Back
Ariel Ezrachi, Virtual Competition: The Promise and Perils of the Algorithm-Driven Economy
Susan Greenfield, A Day in the Life of the Brain: The Neuroscience of Consciousness from Dawn Till Dusk
Steven Koltai, Peace through Entrepreneurship
Malene Rydahl, Happy as a Dane
Kenneth Scheve, Taxing the Rich: A History of Fiscal Fairness in the United States and Europe
Guy Standing, The Corruption of Capitalism: Why Rentiers Thrive and Work Does Not Pay
Jean Quatremer, Les salauds de l’Europe : Guide à l'usage des eurosceptiques
J.D. Taylor, Island Story: Journeys through Unfamiliar Britain
Zach Ward-Perkins, The Econocracy: The Perils of Leaving Economics to the Experts
Highlights from 2016 and 2015
Paul Mason, Postcapitalism: A Guide to Our Future
Philippe Legrain, European Spring: Why Our Economies and Politics are in a Mess and How to Put Them Right
Helen Margetts, Political Turbulence: How Social Media Shape Collective Action
César A. Hidalgo, Why Information Grows: The Evolution of Order, from Atoms to Economies
Francois Bourguignon, The Globalization of Inequality
Nathalie Loiseau, Choisissez Tout
Martin Wolf, The Shifts and the Shocks: What We’ve Learned – and Have Still to Learn – from the Financial Crisis
Frank Pasquale, The Black Box Society: The Secret Algorithms That Control Money and Information
Jeffrey David Sachs, The Age of Sustainable Development