Jonah Goldberg on the stunning advancements ushered in by capitalism, and today’s threats to our economic system and widespread prosperity. Mr. Goldberg holds the Asness Chair in Applied Liberty at the American Enterprise Institute, is editor-in-chief and co-founder of “The Dispatch,” and author of Suicide of the West.

Maria Pia Paganelli is professor of Economics at Trinity University. She works on Adam Smith, David Hume, and 18th century monetary theories. She wrote The Routledge Guidebook to Adam Smith’s Wealth of Nations and co-edited the Oxford Handbook on Adam Smith and Adam Smith and Rousseau. She served as the vice president of the History of Economic Society and as the book review editor for the Journal of the History of Economic Thought. She is the current president of the International Adam Smith Society.

George Mason economist Donald Boudreaux on the historical context of today’s antitrust debates. Professor Boudreaux is the author of Globalization and serves as a senior fellow at the Mercatus Center, the American Institute for Economic Research, and the Fraser Institute.

Johns Hopkins political scientist Steven Teles on how regulatory capture hurts the most vulnerable in society and what can be done to counteract the power of special interest groups. A senior fellow at the Niskanen Center, Professor Teles is coauthor of The Captured Economy with Brink Lindsey.