John Coates at the Pen & Pencil Club
Tuesday, October 3, 2023
7:30pm — 8:30pm ET
Pen & Pencil Club
In The Problem of Twelve: When a Few Financial Institutions Control Everything, Harvard law professor John Coates warns us that America’s past methods for keeping economic power dispersed and monitored no longer do so—instead, a small number of index funds and private equity funds are growing at an alarmingly fast pace and now have disproportionate influence over our economy.
With The Problem of Twelve, Coates brings his vast insider knowledge of how our financial institutions work to reveal how the “problem of twelve” came about and offers much-needed guidance for how to understand, manage, and check this power, while preserving the good that these funds can do.
Doors open at 6:30, program starts at 7:30. Free and open to members and nonmembers.
John Coates is the John F. Cogan, Jr. Professor of Law and Economics and Deputy Dean for Finance and Strategic Initiatives at Harvard Law School. Before joining Harvard, he was a partner at Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz. He has testified before Congress and provided consulting services to the Dept. of Justice, the Dept. of Treasury, and the New York Stock Exchange.
In The Problem of Twelve: When a Few Financial Institutions Control Everything, Harvard law professor John Coates warns us that America’s past methods for keeping economic power dispersed and monitored no longer do so—instead, a small number of index funds and private equity funds are growing at an alarmingly fast pace and now have disproportionate… more
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