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Preface

The Global Sustainainability Summer School co-directors have recommended the following speech by President Barack Obama as a preface to your time at the program.

• President Obama's speech to the National Academy of Sciences, 4 April, 2009.

• Video

Partha Dasgupta

The following papers should be read as supplemental to those lectures given, and for the program at large:

• Common Property Resources: Economic Analysis
• A Matter of Trust: Social Capital and Economic Development
• The Place of Nature in Economic Development

Arnulf Grübler

• Industrialization as a Historical Phenomenon
• Time for Change: On the Patterns of Diffusion of Innovation

Dennis Meadows

Please review the Fishbanks Game Manual for Professor Meadows' second lecture on Thursday July 23. Hard copies will be available that day.

• Fishbanks Game Manual