Sally hubbard thank you for coming on to discuss monopolies suck it is timely because the issue you write about in the book with us economy and the impact on workers and citizens is a hot topic at the moment with policymaking right now and it could play a big and the Incoming Biden Administration so i thought we should look at the big picture you lay out in the book when people hear the title no one likes monopolies are dealing with monopolies but really this book is about a bigger issue that the economy people may not fully understand. s so can you set the scene and describe what you see happening . Thank you for taking the time to talk out the book in cspan2 have me talk about it as well. We all knowonopolies suck. Thats not a surprise to anyone but what has been happening the last several decades is t economy is getting highly concentrated with consolidation that leads to every major sectoof the economy. We hear about whether techr food in the industry all have monopoly problems tal
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Large Tech Companies like amazon, google and uber. Good evening and thank you to the strand book room. My name is nancy. For a little bit of history, the store was founded by my grandfather, benjamin, in 1927. And then my dad who passed away, tried and it was part of the famous crow that ran along Fourth Avenue just one block away from astor place to the union square and there were 48 used bookstores that all competed with one another. We are doing 400 events and discussions just like the one tonight and even tonight we have four events happiness is the best medicine yet americans will spend 3. 4 billion on medicine and health care this year, a sum that is large enough to send any family of four that check for 40,000 for their care. And we all know that happiness is not a big ticket item. Our guest tonight doctor Kelli Harding will discuss this. She is an assistant professor of psychiatry at Columbia University Medical Center and a diplomat to the american board of psychiatry and neuro
Amazon, google and uber. Good evening and thank you to the strand book room. My name is nancy. For a little bit of history, the store was founded by my grandfather, benjamin, in 1927. And then my dad who passed away, tried and it was part of the famous crow that ran along Fourth Avenue just one block away from astor place to the union square and there were 48 used bookstores that all competed with one another. We are doing 400 events and discussions just like the one tonight and even tonight we have four events happiness is the best medicine yet americans will spend 3. 4 billion on medicine and health care this year, a sum that is large enough to send any family of four that check for 40,000 for their care. And we all know that happiness is not a big ticket item. Our guest tonight doctor Kelli Harding will discuss this. She is an assistant professor of psychiatry at Columbia University Medical Center and a diplomat to the american board of psychiatry and neurology. She works up a room
And discussions just like the one tonight, and even tonight we have four events. So its just really fun. So [applause] thank you. And thank you, cspan, for filming this. Happiness is the best medicine, yet americans will spend 3 billion on medicine and health care this year. A sum thats large enough of to send every family of four a check for 40,000 for their care. And we all know that happiness is not a big ticket item. Our guest tonight, dr. Kelli harding, will discuss this. She is an assistant professor of psychiatry at Columbia University Medical Center and a diplomat to the american board of psychiatric and neurology. Dr. Hardings work in the emergency room at the New York Presbyterian Hospital and as the daughter of a 91yearold, i spend a lot of time there, so i have a lot of admiration. She has appeared on today, good morning america, npr, New York Times and the u. S. News and world report. Dr. Harding is here as the author of the rabbit effect. Yea. [applause] starting with the