What do Bill Clinton, Murray Gell-Mann, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, and Emily Oster have in common?

They are all speakers at the TED conference which is being held this week in Monterey, California.

As I have written before, TED is perhaps the single most interesting way that a smart and curious person could spend a week.

This is the first time Emily Oster, who is a Becker Fellow here at U of C, will be on the big stage. Let’s hope she blows them away. She certainly has the ideas to do so.