About the Podcast

How do we solve the problems that really matter? Join host and founder of Economic Architecture, Dr. Stuart Yasgur, in conversation with pioneers at the leading edge of innovation to understand the concrete actions we can take to address the daunting challenges that are shaping our lives. Through in-depth conversations with innovators, community leaders, experts, and others most proximate to the issues, the Economic Architecture podcast brings us closer to understanding how we can redesign the market and our collective capacity to solve the important problems we face.

About the Host

Stuart Yasgur

Stuart Yasgur brings 15 years of experience in advancing innovations that use market forces to address social challenges at large scale. As the founder and principal of Economic Architecture, Stuart leads a team of researchers and storytellers to foster, design, and build a wider public understanding of structural innovations. Projects such as the Valuing Homes in Black Communities Challenge, created by Stuart with Dr. Andre Perry, a Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution, and Project H2O, a new mortgage liquidity product, seek to (re)design our markets to serve the public good. Previously, as a Global Leadership Group Member at Ashoka, Stuart initiated efforts that directed more than $500 million to innovative market-based solutions, engaged with the G20 through multiple Summits, and has taught at NYU and LSE. Stuart holds a PhD from LSE, a master’s from Columbia, and a bachelor’s from Cornell.

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