Mr. Will regularly appears on NBC and MSNBC and is the author of the recent The Conservative Sensibility.

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.

Marilyn Fedak is vice chair emeritus of AllianceBernstein, founder of the Marilyn G. Fedak Capitalism Project, and co-founder of the Adam Smith Society. Her Wall Street career spanned 40 years including 30 years at AllianceBernstein (AB). Marilyn held many senior roles at AB including the head of Global Value Equities and Chief Investment Officer for US Value Equities, among others. She has a BA from Smith College and an MBA from Harvard Business School.

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.

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.