Philip E. Auerswald, Ph.D., professor of public policy at George Mason University, recently presented \u201cHow We Got to Now,\u201d the keynote lecture at The University of Scranton’s Spring Henry George Seminar.<\/p>\n
Over 300 students, faculty, alumni and community members attended the lecture on Wednesday, April 15, at the McIlhenny Ballroom inside the DeNaples Center. The lecture reflected Dr. Auerswald’s extensive research on technology-driven growth, innovation, entrepreneurship and economic development.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Dr. Auerswald currently serves as cochair and executive director of the Global Entrepreneurship Research Network, an initiative of the Kauffman Foundation; is a Senior Fellow at George Mason’s Mercatus Center; and is the cofounder and editor of “Innovations,” a quarterly journal about entrepreneurial solutions to global challenges published by MIT Press.<\/p>\n
A distinguished author, Dr. Auerswald’s most recent book, “The Code Economy: A Forty-Thousand Year History,” was released in 2017. The book discusses the ways in which code has driven human development throughout history.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Philip E. Auerswald, Ph.D., professor of public policy at George Mason University, recently presented \u201cHow We Got to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":204544,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[64,62090,178,180,179,90165,274],"class_list":["post-204543","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-scranton","tag-economics","tag-philip-auerswald","tag-scranton","tag-scranton-headlines","tag-scranton-news","tag-spring-henry-george-seminar","tag-the-university-of-scranton"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204543","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=204543"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204543\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/204544"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=204543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=204543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=204543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}