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UDC Forum: Physics and the New Economy

Hello and welcome to another edition of UDC Forum. I'm Dr. Sandra Jowers-Barber, assistant professor of history at the University of the District of Columbia and your host. When someone opens a discussion about the state of the economy, it might initially lead to a debate over access to capital, innovation, the rate of inflation, technology, unemployment rate, gross national product, housing sales, the Dow, debt reduction, trade balances, global financial markets, and certainly US government policy---But how about physics—the realities of planet earth? Physics and the New Economy is the title of a new book co-authored by my guests and UDC colleagues, Dr. Sabine O'Hara, Dean of the College of Architecture Urban Sustainability and Environmental Sciences---also known as CAUSES, which is also the title of Dr. O'Hara's television series seen here on UDC-TV; and Prof. Thomas Kakovitch, Professor of Environmental Sciences here at the University of the District of Columbia and author of The Fifth Force a book that examines the physical nature of force prior to the existence of mass, electric charges, weak and strong nuclear charges.

I've invited Dr. O'Hara and Prof. Kakovitch to join me on this edition of UDC Forum to talk about their new book and to help us all understand the relationship between physics and the 'new' economy.

• Dr. Sandra Jowers-Barber, assistant professor of history at the University of the District of Columbia
• Dr. Sabine O'Hara, Dean of the College of Architecture Urban Sustainability and Environmental Sciences
• Prof. Thomas Kakovitch, Professor of Environmental Sciences