Former IMF Chief Economist and Harvard University economist Kenneth Rogoff made an interesting point on “economic history” at the Institute for New Economic Thinking conference.

The evening before last, George Soros offered some remarks at the launch conference of the Institute for New Economic Thinking taking place in the Cambridge University Kings College environs where John Maynard Keynes imagined and drafted an entirely new economic system for that time in global history.

Rob Johnson, executive director of the Institute for New Economic Thinking, just showed an extraordinary powerpoint slide of which I just snapped a picture (see above).

(photo credit: Steve Clemons, The Washington Note) IMF Managing Director Dominique Strauss-Kahn is “cool under fire”, as Central European University President John Shattuck said when introducing him, and didn’t break his stride during his interesting presentation to a group convened by the Institute for New Economic Thinking at Kings College, University of Cambridge.

This morning at a conference in Cambridge, England titled “The Economic Crisis and the Crisis in Economics” sponsored by the Institute for New Economic Thinking, alerts on the blackberries and iPhones of the various governmental and journalistic representatives here started beeping and vibrating with news that the President of Poland Lech Kaczynski, his wife Maria…

(photo credit: James Mawson) I didn’t take this picture. I think it was taken a few months ago by Cambridge University Kings College senior James Mawson who is studying music at this ancient and interesting foundation of learning. John Maynard Keynes and Henry VI are the two personalities that basically dominate the scene at Kings….

Jonathan Guyer is a program associate at the New America Foundation/Middle East Task Force and the official cartoonist of The Washington Note. He blogs at Mideast by Midwest.

(Photo Credit: mr_smee44’s Photostream) The International Crisis Group (ICG) published a report earlier this week on “Turkey And The Middle East: Ambitions and Constraints.” The paper is an excellent primer on Turkey’s growing and complicated role in the region.

Above is a short clip of video from the first session of the Institute for New Economic Thinking conference launch where I am now in Cambridge, England.

On Tuesday, the Washington Note conveyed the news that Af/Pak Envoy Richard Holbrooke’s doctor had grounded him pending angiogram tests and was not permitting him to travel to the Afghanistan on a well publicized trip with General David Petraeus this week.