Dean Starkman | The Seattle Times

Jan. 22, 2014 – Davos – DAVOS/SWITZERLAND, 22JAN14 – Anat Admati, a prfoessor of finance and economics at Stanford’s business school, speaks during the Global Agenda Council on New Economic Thinking at the Annual Meeting 2014 of the World Economic Forum at the congress center on Jan. 22, 2014 in Davos, Switzerland. (Jolanda Flubacher/UPPA/Zuma Press/TNS)

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