Book Event: Antimonopoly and American Democracy

[We have word of the following book event.  DRE]

Antimonopoly and American Democracy, April 22, 2024, 1:30 PM to 03:00 PM.  The Forum at Columbia University, Room 315 (Third Floor), 601 West 125th Street, New York, NY 10027

At this roundtable hosted by the Columbia Center for Political Economy and The Tobin Project, Bill Novak (University of Michigan Law School), an editor and contributor to the book, will join fellow contributors Richard John (Columbia Journalism School), Kate Andrias (Columbia Law School), and Tim Wu (Columbia Law School), to discuss how antimonopoly has figured importantly in the history of American democracy, and what lessons this history may hold for the challenges of market power, economic concentration, and democracy that we confront today. Center Co-Director Suresh Naidu (Columbia University) will moderate the discussion.

[The discussion] will address the deep links between concentrated economic power and durability of meaningful self-governance in American history; the wide range of places where monopoly power was seen as a threat, and the similarly wide range of tools and techniques that people across the society wielded to push back against these perceived threats, especially the ways tools of politics beyond antitrust law have been wielded in democratic politics.

This event is free and open to the public. It will not be livestreamed but is to be recorded and released publicly later.  Register here.