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2004 Events

• The Cashless Society: Revolution or Evolution? The AEI-Brookings Joint Center Capitol Hill Series Conference 
  Date: December 8, 2004
  Location: Rayburn House Office Building, Capitol Hill, Washington, DC
  Participants: Twenty-five members of the Capitol Hill community including representatives from the FDIC, FTC, Department of Justice, and Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, as well as members and staffers of the Senate Banking Committee and House Financial Services Committee.
  
  This event, The Cashless Society: Revolution or Evolution?, was the first in the AEI-Brookings Joint Center Capitol Hill Series. It examined how people pay for goods and services, what it means for the American economy and the implications for public policy. Robert Pitofsky, former Chairman of the FTC, moderated a distinguished panel of experts that included AEI-Brookings Executive Director Robert Hahn, Federal Reserve Economist Geoffrey Gerdes, and MPD founder David S. Evans.
  
• The Art and Science of Market Platforms: An AEI-Brookings and Financial Times Breakfast Briefing
  Date: April 7, 2004
  Location: Palo Alto, CA
  Participants: Twenty-five Bay Area venture capitalists and cutting-edge software platform firms.
  
  On April 7, 2004, the AEI-Brookings Joint Center hosted the breakfast roundtable, The Art and Science of Market Platforms, at the Garden Court Hotel in Palo Alto to discuss what makes platform markets work well and what goes wrong when they don't. The discussion, moderated by Richard Waters of the Financial Times, included insights from senior executives from some of the industry's most successful platform-based companies, including Unisys Corporation and IMMTech, as well as presentations from MPD experts Jean Tirole and David S. Evans.