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Their experimental research methods won them a Nobel prize in 2019 for significantly enhancing our understanding of the world's poor and how to help them.

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Gross pioneered active bond trading and became an investing superstar - until hubris caught up with him.

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The Nobel laureate believes that neoliberal economics and unfettered markets are failures. His remedy? More government intervention.

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His investment memos are so good that even Warren Buffett hastens to read them. So what can we learn from the world's leading investor in distressed debt?

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Elinor Ostrom won a Nobel Prize in Economics in 2009 for showing that ordinary people, working together, can manage natural resources sustainably. Her work is as relevant as ever.

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A self-described "techno-optimist", the US-Indian billionaire believes that AI and related technologies have the potential to liberate us all - with a little help from visionary venture capitalists like himself.

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Children learn fastest and most instinctively through stories and games. So parents looking to teach their children financially literacy are in luck: there is a whole range of games, books and podcasts available that will awaken the financial genius in every child.

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The US economist is a leading proponent of modern monetary theory, which challenges conventional ideas about government debt, inflation, and pretty much every other aspect of monetary policy. Her views have attracted plenty of attention - and not a few critics.

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Bogle's conviction that low-cost index funds can deliver more for investors than active management was vindicated during his lifetime and sustains his reputation as an investment guru today.

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Bill Gross, the Bond King

Joseph Stiglitz: How to save capitalism from itself

Howard Marks - master of distressed debt investment

Tackling the sustainability challenge collectively

What drives Vinod Khosla?

Financial literacy for children

Stephanie Kelton and the deficit "myth"

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