Monopolization in America with Barry C. Lynn, Executive Director, Open Markets Institute
This joint Harvard - MIT event, featuring drinks and dinner, details the political and economic dangers posed by monopolization in America.
Barry C. Lynn will detail the political and economic dangers posed by monopolization in America, and explain how the problem is the result of radical changes in economic thinking and policy in the early 1980s. He will focus especially closely on the dangers posed by Google, Amazon, Facebook and the other Internet giants. Finally he will discuss how we can fix the problem, and detail some of the advances we have already made, in both the United States and Europe.
BIOGRAPHY
Barry C. Lynn is Executive Director of the Open Markets Institute in Washington. He is author of Cornered: The New Monopoly Capitalism and the Economics of Destruction (Wiley 2010) and End of the Line: The Rise and Coming Fall of the Global Corporation (Doubleday 2005), and his work has been profiled in The New York Times, Politico, The Washington Post, The New Yorker, The Wall Street Journal, and CBS. Lynn and his team have taken the lead in illuminating America’s new monopoly problem, and in detailing how to protect our democracy from concentrated power. He and other members of OMI work closely with political leaders from both parties, and with antimonopoly enforcers in the United States and Europe. Lynn’s work on the flaws in the international trading system – especially the fragility of key supply chains – has been widely studied in Europe, Asia, and throughout the U.S. government.
Prior to launching OMI, Lynn worked at the New America Foundation for 15 years. Before that he was Executive Editor of Global Business Magazine and a correspondent for the Associated Press and Agence France Presse in South America and the Caribbean.
INFORMATION
​Thursday, January 10, 2019
- 6:30 pm - Start of dinner and drinks
- 7:00 pm - Start of talk
- 8:30 pm - Adjournment
Hogan Lovells
555 13th St NW
Washington, DC 20004 (Metro Center)
MENU:
Winter Vegetable Salad V Thinly shaved fennel, cauliflower, asparagus, carrot and celery tossed with edamame then lightly dressed with a classic mustard seed and dill vinaigrette
Pan Seared Salmon GF -Yukon potato & tasso hash
Chicken Pot Pie
Sweet Potato Glazed Wedges GF V -Topped with brown sugar
Brussels Sprouts GF V- Sliced apricots and almonds
Sliced Fruit
White Chocolate Cherry Bread Pudding -White chocolate, dried cherries, egg custard with hints of cinnamon & vanilla bean
REGISTRATION
Register by clicking the Register Online button above (NO REFUNDS OR CREDITS). $45 pp members/guests; $65 pp non-members. Members of the Harvard Club who are not members of the MIT Club should register on the Harvard Club of DC website.