Study Group with Amb. Katherine Tai: New Schools of Thought on Trade & Antitrust

Over the last decade and a half, a new economics has been emerging in America, manifesting in the break by both U.S. trade and U.S. antitrust policies from the orthodoxy of Reaganomics, Milton Friedman, and the Chicago school. During a time when bipartisan support for policies is rare, the economics and politics of new trade and new antitrust are experiencing similar patterns of growth in across-the-aisle interest.

No one embodies the leadership and vision of this new school of antitrust – focused on challenging concentrated corporate power, protecting competition, democracy, and the freedom of consumers and workers – like Lina Khan, former Chair of the U.S. Federal Trade Commission, the nation’s top competition enforcement authority.

This week, Lina Khan joins our study group to discuss how the continued evolution of trade and antitrust policy are interconnected and how, combined with other disciplines of economic governance, they might shape the next political and economic order for the United States and the world.

GUEST: Lina Khan, Associate Professor of Law, Columbia Law School and Former Chair, Federal Trade Commission (2021-25)

AUDIENCE: These conversations are open to members of the Harvard community. Please RSVP with a valid Harvard email address. 

OFF-THE-RECORD: In keeping with our long tradition at the IOP to ensure honest and candid discussions of politics, all IOP study groups are off-the-record.