Schumpeter Project on Competition Policy
The Schumpeterian perspective represents a new intellectual framework for antitrust reforms that focus less on competition for competition's sake and more on enabling firm dynamic capabilities to power productivity, innovation and global competitiveness. The Schumpeter Project’s mission is to advance dynamic competition policy with boosting firm dynamic capabilities as a central concern for antitrust enforcement. (Read more.)
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Featured Publications
Testimony Before the House Judiciary Committee Regarding Artificial Intelligence Trends in Innovation and Competition
AI provides no reason at this time for either heavy-handed enforcement of our antitrust laws or fundamental changes to them. The right approach is to maintain antitrust law’s traditional focus on promoting competition and innovation by proscribing collusive and exclusionary anticompetitive conduct.
No, Reviving the Robinson-Patman Act Will Not Lead to More Competition or a Better Economy

Neo-Brandeisians aim to reinvigorate the Robinson-Patman Act to protect small businesses. But the act doesn’t address any anticompetitive conduct that isn’t already covered by the Sherman Act, and enforcing it will only harm consumers and limit growth. Rather than repeat history’s mistakes, the next Congress should repeal the act once and for all.
Events
May 19, 2025
The DOJ v. Google Ad Tech Decision: Did the Court Get It Right?
Watch this virtual webinar featuring experts who discussed this important decision, its implications for the ad tech space, and what it means for Google as its antitrust battles with the DOJ escalate.
April 16, 2025
The DMA’s Annual Review: A Global Perspective on Digital Competition Regulation
Watch the virtual discussion featuring experts from diverse regulatory landscapes unpack the DMA’s real-world impact, analyze global trends in digital regulation, and evaluate whether ex-ante rules are the right path forward for competition.
April 10, 2025
The DOJ v. Google Saga Continues: What’s at Stake in the Search Remedies Trial?
Watch now for a virtual panel with top experts who will discussed the key issues going to trial, the implications for Google and the future of search, and what the case means for U.S. antitrust law and the broader “big tech” debate.
March 4, 2025
Competition Policy in the Trump Administration: The Future of Conservative Antitrust and the FTC
Watch the webinar event where panlists discussed how antitrust enforcement might change with the new administration, whether the Trump enforcers will carry forward any of the neo-Brandeisian policies, and what the future may have in store for the FTC.
November 13, 2024
Korea’s Digital Market: Domestic Regulation and Global Impacts
Watch now for an expert panel discussion on how South Korea’s regulatory choices will shape its future as a global tech leader, and what the broader implications will be for its strategic positioning in the U.S.-China rivalry.

Director, Schumpeter Project on Competition Policy
Information Technology and Innovation Foundation
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May 12, 2025|Blogs
The DOJ’s Problematic Remedies Proposal in the Google Ad Tech Case
Obsessions with “Big Business” and “Tryanny.com” appear to have trumped not just fashioning legally sound antitrust relief, but winning the United States’ geopolitical competition with China.
May 11, 2025|Podcasts
Podcast: Taking Stock of the Google Search Remedies Trial, Featuring Joseph Coniglio
Joseph Coniglio joined host Cristiano Lima-Strong and fellow expert Karina Montoya on The Sunday Show podcast from Tech Policy Press to analyze the remedies phase of the Google search antitrust trial.
May 2, 2025|Blogs
Ad Tech Decision Against Google Rests on Shaky Legal Reasoning
The ruling against Google in the ad tech case has been heralded as a straightforward effort to hold Big Tech accountable. But in reality, the mixed decision is a regrettable misstep that rests on shaky legal foundations and risks severe knock-on consequences for innovation.
May 2, 2025|Podcasts
Podcast: Tech Oligarchy in the USA? With Giorgio Castiglia
Giorgio Castiglia appeared on the Technocracy podcast, hosted by Heena Goswami of the Institute for Governance, Policies & Politics, to discuss whether the United States is moving toward a tech oligarchy and what that would mean for the future of democracy.
April 30, 2025|Blogs
The EU’s Apple and Google DMA Rulings Deal a Double Blow to European Consumers and Transatlantic Relations
The European Commission is seemingly oblivious to concerns about innovation and user experience as it forces through DMA decisions against Apple and Google.
April 28, 2025|Op-Eds & Contributed Articles
A Tale of Two Populisms: Deconstructing the Neo-Brandeisian and National Conservative Models of Antitrust Law and Political Economy
The prevailing left and right populisms—neo-Brandeisian and national conservatism—do not present desirable models for grounding the next generation of U.S. antitrust law and share important key flaws.
April 14, 2025|Blogs
Antitrust and AI: Key Takeaways From My Congressional Testimony
How I learned to stop worrying and love the AI revolution.