A pressing task for the world of the 21st-century is to bring about international cooperation directed toward the raising of living standards and welfare for all. This must replace the pattern of development of state power for the purpose of aggressive attacks on other countries and to exercise control over them, as we have sometimes witnessed in the past.
It is an honor to be invited to speak at commencement. An incredible, terrifying honor. I would be completely comfortable teaching an economics class. I don't know that anyone else would be thrilled, but I would be in my comfort zone. But this occasion calls for more-words of wisdom, hard-earned life advice, moments of gravity and levity.