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SUMMARY:Lindsay Owens\, Gouged: The End of a Fair Price — and What That Me
 ans for Your Wallet
LOCATION:Building 120\, McClatchy Hall\, Main Quad Studio 40\, Building 12
 0\, Stanford\, CA 94305
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a second installment of our Open and Engaged lectu
 re series. A fireside chat with Professor Robb Willer moderating.\n\nAbou
 t the fireside chat: Everywhere you turn\, Americans are getting ripped o
 ff: Online ticket sellers hide behind exorbitant extra fees. Landlords us
 e software to band together and organize artificial rent hikes. Surveilla
 nce pricing\, algorithmic price fixing\, and other high-tech forms of pri
 ce gouging are the latest frontiers in corporate profiteering\, and they’
 re distorting markets and undermining American households’ financial secu
 rity.Building on the novel research and analysis in Dr. Lindsay Owens’s n
 ew book Gouged: The End of a Fair Price—And What That Means for Your Wall
 et\, this conversation explores the modern landscape of predatory pricing
  and corporate profit-seeking. Dr. Owens will unpack how unprecedented co
 rporate consolidation combined with algorithms that test\, personalize\, 
 and coordinate prices at a scale unimaginable a decade ago has given comp
 anies incredible power and transformed pricing into a highly engineered s
 cience. As a result\, the old pricing rulebook is gone. In its place\, th
 ere’s a new credo: The best price is the one you personally are willing t
 o pay. Owens is President and CEO of Groundwork Collaborative\, a leading
  economic think tank and corporate watchdog.\n\nLindsay Owens is presiden
 t and CEO of the Groundwork Collaborative. A nationally recognized public
  policy expert\, she is widely sought after for media commentary\, \n\nht
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