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Stephanie Kelton is a writer, political advisor, and professor of economics and public policy at the State University of New York at Stony Brook. She served as the chief economist for the US Senate Budget Committee and has written for the New York Times, the Washington Post, and the Los Angeles Times.

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Robert J. Shiller is a Nobel Prize-winning economist and the author of the New York Times best-seller Irrational Exuberance, among many other titles. He is Sterling Professor of Economics at Yale University and a frequent contributor to the New York Times.

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British historian Adam Tooze is a professor and the director of the European Institute at Columbia University, New York. His previous books include the Wolfson History Prize-winning The Wages of Destruction (2006), a study of Nazi Germany’s economic policies, and The Great Deluge (2014), an analysis of the Great War and the creation of a new international order.

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Ron Chernow is an award-winning author of several best-selling books, including The House of Morgan, The Warburgs, Washington: A Life and Alexander Hamilton. He has been awarded the National Book Award, the George S. Eccles Prize and the Pulitzer Prize, in addition to seven honorary doctoral degrees.

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Adaptive Markets (2017) is about a new economic theory that helps us better understand the human element behind financial markets. Andrew W. Lo expertly illustrates the shortcomings of current prevailing economic theories, showing us how finance is less like physics or math and more like a responsive and evolving organism – not unlike ourselves.

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