"Free market forces aren't going to do this, " he said in a lecture earlier this year.
And so I sent him an email inviting him to give a guest lecture this spring.
This is the lecture that I give to every one of my patients: Take charge of your health today.
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At the less traditional end of the scale was a lecture this month at the UK's Judge Business School, part of Cambridge University, one of a series intended to explore the crossover between commerce and culture.
This was a lecture which provided a real insight into the life of one of the 20th Centuries great poets, who among her many accolades was asked to perform at the 1993 inauguration of President Bill Clinton.
He was endearingly trusting when, a few days before giving a landmark lecture this week on Conservative crime policy, he allowed a pair of complete strangers supposedly desperate for a pee into his house in the early hours of the morning.
One of the book's main ideas, highlighted in this week's lecture, is the interdependence of states and markets.
So does MIT mathematician Michael Sisper, in this video of a lecture.
Musician and campaigner Billy Bragg will give BBC 6 Music's second annual John Peel Lecture at this year's Radio Festival next month.
Black is one of three speakers talking about the subject this week at a lecture entitled, "From Chemistry to Catwalk, " to be held at the Royal Institution of Great Britain.
This was followed by a lecture on importance of maintaining reference records on subjects of interest to the writer.
In this year's MacTaggart Lecture, Mr Thompson must try to win round the corporation's critics, including some of those commercial rivals and politicians.
He will deliver this year's Independent Lecture at Trinity College Dublin on Monday evening ahead of a celebrity studded dinner on Tuesday to raise funds for the Northern Ireland Fund for Peach and Reconciliation.
As I noted in my Fogarty Lecture at Stanford, this standard alone will greatly depress new innovation.
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The field is evolving so fast that every time I do a lecture, every other month this year actually.
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But, at a lecture at the LSE earlier this week, Sir Malcolm Rifkind argued that it was "overwhelmingly in Britain's interest to remain a full participant in the biggest single market in the world, with the ability to shape the rules".
This week the billionaire philanthropist Bill Gates will deliver the annual BBC Richard Dimbleby Lecture in which he will spell out his commitment to ridding the world of this dread infectious disease which can cause paralysis and even death within hours.
Cedar teases the gangsterish academic feuds, beginning each section of this briskly paced movie with what look like lecture slides or pages of microfiche.
The profound concerns of the UK Statistics Authority at this kind of ministerial behaviour are reflected in a lecture Sir Michael gave at Cambridge University last year.
Eric recently talked about this approach at the Stanford Technology Ventures Program and his entire lecture is archived at ecorner.stanford.edu.
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In his lecture, Ball presented a number of cases like this, from Kosovo, Guatemala, Sierre Leone and Timor-Leste, where sound and verifiable data was used effectively to answer a small question, then stretched to answer a broader question for which it was not suited.
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So he started off his lecture by saying: there is no way of avoiding this, we can't avoid talking about what happened yesterday and the whole class apparently - I wasn't there, he was there - was just utterly silent from the start.
Out went the fun and in came a return to the dry lecture-as-TV-show style of presentation - this time with added facial hair, comb-overs, tweed jackets, and flares.
When Wang Shu won the prize this past February, he was in Los Angeles, about to give a lecture at UCLA. Architect Neil Denari, a professor at the school and Wang's host, was with him that afternoon.
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Other facilities include a small children's library, exhibition spaces, lecture halls, a school for information sciences and a planetarium, this last being a separate, spherical structure poised at one end of the vast outside plaza like an orbiting satellite.
MIT, along with other academic shrines, may do all this while preserving the value of what it really sells: spots in the lecture hall and dorm rooms, the chance to interact face-to-face with a prestigious faculty and like-minded students and, a golden credential, the MIT diploma.
More importantly, how do we instill this decision-making process in people that do not have access to the great lecture halls and classrooms of debate that dissect decisions based on ethics?
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If you try this at a full-service brokerage, you're likely to get a stern lecture.
This week the embassy sent out an announcement to its mailing list urging the public to attend a lecture by former Peace Now director Gavri Bargil at the London School of Economics.
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