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Conference | America’s Monopoly Moment: Work, Innovation, and Control in an Age of Concentrated Power

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Explore the impacts of today’s extreme levels of economic concentration with Open Markets Institute, Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), Congressman David Cicilline (D-RI), Luigi Zingales & more.

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How do extreme levels of economic concentration affect the foundations of prosperity and economic growth, including entrepreneurship, innovation, job creation, wages, and the free flow of information among citizens? Sen. Warren delivers a keynote address on these and other problems that derive from unfettered monopolization. She is followed by two panel discussions, and speeches by Congressman Cicilline and Professor of Finance Luigi Zingales.

Special Guests:

  • Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), Ranking Member on the Senate Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Subcommittee on Financial Institutions and Consumer Protection

  • Congressman David Cicilline (D-RI), Ranking Member on the Subcommittee on Regulatory Reform, Commercial and Antitrust Law

  • Luigi Zingales, Professor of Entrepreneurship and Finance, University of Chicago Booth School of Business, author of “Saving Capitalism from the Capitalists” and “A Capitalism for the People”

Also Featured:

  • Thea Lee, President, Economic Policy Institute

  • Lillian Salerno, former COO Retractable Technologies, former Under Secretary of U.S. Department of Agriculture

  • Ross Baird, CEO, Village Capital, author of “Innovation Blind Spot.”

  • Kim-Mai Cutler, Initialized Capital, contributor to TechCrunch

  • Simcha Barkai, Assistant Professor of Finance, London Business School, author “Declining Labor and Capital Shares”

  • Navina Khanna, Director of the HEAL Food Alliance, an organization dedicated to creating a more just, healthy, and sustainable food system

  • Tushar Sheth, Civic Advisors; former Policy Director to Vice President Biden

  • Sandeep Vaheesan, Attorney-Advisor, Consumer Financial Protection Bureau; co-author of “Market Power and Inequality: The Antitrust Counter-Revolution and its Discontents,” Harvard Law & Policy Review

  • Rebecca Rosen, Senior Editor, The Atlantic

  • Sally Hubbard, Senior Editor, The Capitol Forum

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