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
Comments to the Justice Department and FTC Regarding Draft Merger Guidelines
Not only are the proposed concentration thresholds in irreconcilable tension with the economic evidence surrounding the relationship between market structure and innovation, but established antitrust law counsels against the use of a structural presumption to satisfy the government’s prima facie burden in markets characterized by Schumpeterian competition.
Events
September 22, 2022
The EU’s Digital Markets Act: A Triumph of Regulation Over Innovation?
Watch ITIF’s Schumpeter Project on Competition Policy's event for an expert panel discussion and presentation of a new report on the challenges ahead in implementing and enforcing the DMA.
August 10, 2022
Dynamic Antitrust Discussion Series: Commissioner Noah Phillips
In this conversation, Director of the Schumpeter Project on Competition Policy, Aurelien Portuese, sits down with Commissioner Noah Phillips of the Federal Trade Association to learn about his views on the current state of antitrust and competition policy and the state of capitalism in America.
June 27, 2022
Dynamic Antitrust Discussion Series: Antitrust and Inflation
Watch the latest installment of the Dynamic Antitrust series, where Julie Carlson moderates a panel with antitrust and inflation experts to get their views on the relationship between corporate concentration and inflation.
June 3, 2022
Assessing the Neo-Brandeisian Revolution: Looking for Mr. Schumpeter?
Watch this expert discussion about how to integrate the Schumpeterian perspective into competition policy as an alternative to the Neo-Brandeisian movement agenda.
April 28, 2022
Dynamic Antitrust Discussion Series: “Chief Economists’ Perspectives on Horizontal Merger Guidelines”
Please join ITIF for the latest in a series of discussions on “dynamic antitrust.” In this installment, Julie Carlson will sit down with former chief economists from the DOJ and FTC to discuss their views on the planned revisions to the guidelines.
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September 20, 2023|Reports & Briefings
Big Tech’s Free Online Services Aren’t Costing Consumers Their Privacy
There is no evidence that breaking up big online platforms will improve digital privacy, but there is overwhelming evidence that breaking up these services or restricting them from collecting user data will harm consumers and workers.
September 19, 2023|Blogs
United States v. Google and the Legacy of the Microsoft Case
United States v. Google represents the most significant challenge to a large technology company on the grounds that it abused a monopoly position since the seminal United States v. Microsoft.
July 19, 2023|Blogs
100M Users Debunked the Argument That Big Tech Uses Monopoly Power to Hurt Individual Privacy
The rapid consumer adoption of Meta’s Threads has put new holes in the theory that consumers only consent to data collection on large social media platforms because companies leverage their market power to coerce them into it.
June 13, 2023|Blogs
The UK’s Latest Antitrust Grab Could Be the Final Blow for Its Tech Sector
If enacted, the UK’s Digital Markets, Competition and Consumers Bill could ruin the UK’s ability to compete with other leading tech sectors.
June 5, 2023|Blogs
Any Remake of Antitrust Law for the Digital Economy Should Advance the Principles of Consumer Protection and Free Competition
The history of major antitrust actions against dominant tech firms suggests that the federal government would be wise to always move with precision and an eye toward the evolution of business models and underlying technologies in our dynamic economy.
May 17, 2023|Op-Eds & Contributed Articles
Killing Mergers Hurts America’s Global Competitiveness
Microsoft buying Activision would help the firm compete with Japan’s Sony and Nintendo, and Adobe buying Figma would put America in a better position in the international market for creative design tools.
May 15, 2023|Reports & Briefings
The Great Revealing: Taking Competition in America and Europe Seriously
With its provocative claim that America now has less economic competition than the EU, Thomas Philippon’s book The Great Reversal has become a bible for neo-Brandeisians. But reports of the death of competition in America are highly exaggerated: While U.S. antitrust remains effective, EU competition policy has failed to stimulate innovation, productivity, or growth.