Webinar How the Financial Sector is Rigged Against You and How to Fix It
- February 19, 2026
Join the Stigler Center for a conversation with John Y. Campbell and Tarun Ramadorai on their new book, Fixed: Why Personal Finance Is Broken and How to Make It Work for Everyone, moderated by Bethany McLean. Together, they explore why today’s personal finance markets are rigged and offer practical steps to fix them.
We interact with the financial system every day, whether taking out or paying off loans, making insurance claims, or depositing money into our bank accounts. The book exposes how this system has been corrupted to serve the interests of financial services providers and their cleverest customers—at the expense of ordinary people. With the explosive growth of the global middle class, longer lifespans, and greater numbers of seniors managing their money alone, the pitfalls of personal finance now affect billions of people around the world. The authors propose concrete solutions that harness the expertise of economists, the power of government, and the speed of technology to restore fairness and trust in our broken system and make it work better for ordinary people.
“Always clear, never dull, and hugely informative, this book is written for the smart layperson who has never taken a finance class (and many who have) but cares deeply about fixing finance.” – Raghuram Rajan, Chicago Booth
John Y. Campbell, Morton L. and Carole S. Olshan Professor of Economics, Harvard University
Tarun Ramadorai, Professor of Financial Economics, Imperial College London
Bethany McLean (moderator), Author and Journalist, Capitalisn't Co-host
Date: February 19, 2026
Time: 12:00 - 1:00 p.m. CT
WEBINAR
*This event will be recorded, live-streamed, and on the record.