But essentially, monopolies and Financial Institutions that facilitate that monopolization across the country and thats what we are focused on. We have special concerns about the power of Big Technology platforms but in general we think that a lot of the economic and social problems that we are experiencing in this country today can trace back or be exact exacerbated by the dramatic outsized levels of Corporate Power that exists in our economy today. Host how did you come to that view . Guest we looked around at the world essentially. If you look at markets. If you look at Market Structure you will find that whether it is large markets like media, telecom, healthcare, online retail, amazon for example, or even small markets like Peanut Butter and cheerleading and watch components and software you have seen that over and over a handful of businesses and handful of corporations have rolled up those markets and essentially act as governing agents for other actors in that market. Host isnt
Bradford on the power and influence on the European Union. Its a subject of her book the brussels effect. Good evening, everyone. Thank you so much for being with us. I am David Schizer one of the codirectors of the Richmond Center and i i also served of Columbia Law School from 20,422,014 which i mentor for a very particular reason, i was the dean when professor anu bradford joined our faculty and its one of my brightest moments to persuade her to do that. Im on a stick kickoff a fascinating discussion about the influence of europe on the global marketplace. Last year, the wall street journal called the decline w of europe as a remote consequential shift of the last hundred years. There is some truth in that t since world war ii, the military influence in europe declined and also true that europes Economic Growth has not compared favorably with that of the United States or with china or india. And of course efforts to maintain an Economic Union so europe has been more complicated late
Proud moments when we persuaded her to do that. So im honored to kick off what i know will be a fascinating discussion about the influence oof the influence ofeurope on tl marketplace. Last year the wall street journal called the decline of europe a force in World Affairs the most consequential shift of the last 100 years and there is some truth in that since world war ii military influence of europe is certainly declined, and its also true the Economic Growth has been compared favorably with that of the United States or for example with china or india. And of course efforts to maintain an Economic Union have been more complicated greatly as we all know. But still, i think professor bradford sees things a little differently and in her book the brussels effect of the European Union rules the world which is here and also back there and you must have a copy, professor bradford argues that it remains a critically important economic superpower and makes the case very persuasively that conti
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