The Real Returns Summit was a youth-focused economics conference hosted by The Real Returns Show, bringing students into direct conversation with leading economists, policymakers, business leaders, and public thinkers. Held virtually across three weekends, the Summit featured moderated conversations and student Q&A sessions with Soumaya Keynes, Edward Snyder, and Narayana Kocherlakota. Through these sessions, students explored major economic questions around markets, policy, institutions, leadership, and the forces shaping the economy they are entering. The goal of the Summit was to give students a forum usually reserved for universities, think tanks, and professional conferences: a place to ask serious questions, engage with leading thinkers, and see economics not just as a classroom subject, but as a way to understand the world around them.
Professor Edward “Ted” Snyder is the William S. Beinecke Professor of Economics and Management at the Yale School of Management and former Dean of Yale School of Management, Chicago Booth, and the University of Virginia’s Darden School of Business. In this Real Returns Summit conversation, he discussed competition, innovation, and how economists analyze real-world markets, drawing on examples from the NASCAR–Michael Jordan case, Deflategate, sports leagues, the global semiconductor industry, industrial policy, and higher education’s role in preparing students for a rapidly changing economy.
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