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
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.
October 30, 2024
US v. Google (Again): A Post-Trial Analysis of the Ad Tech Case
Watch now for a virtual panel discussion with experts exploring the merits and implications of the DOJ v. Google ad tech case.

Director, Schumpeter Project on Competition Policy
Information Technology and Innovation Foundation
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April 14, 2025|Blogs
Antitrust and AI: Key Takeaways From My Congressional Testimony
How I learned to stop worrying and love the AI revolution.
April 11, 2025|Testimonies & Filings
Comments Before the Malaysia Competition Commission Regarding Assessment of Malaysia’s Digital Markets
While the Interim Report of the Market Review on the Digital Economy Ecosystem under the Competition Act 2010 reflects a valuable step toward understanding market trends, it does not present clear evidence of systemic market failure that would warrant prescriptive regulatory intervention.
March 31, 2025|Reports & Briefings
A Policymaker’s Guide to Digital Antitrust Regulation
Rather than adopt the European Union’s model for regulating competition, policymakers considering how to govern digital markets should carefully evaluate whether digital antitrust regulation is justified and consider whether concerns about anticompetitive behavior can be addressed with less intrusive and more cost-effective tools.
March 27, 2025|Blogs
The EU Should Resist Calls to Regulate AI Under the DMA
Europe risks undermining its competitiveness in the AI race by heeding calls to extend the DMA to AI and cloud services.
March 21, 2025|Blogs
Does the DMA Intentionally Target US Companies?
While the DMA may be motivated by Europe’s commitment to its long-held ordoliberal model of competition policy, its disproportionate effects on U.S. firms are intentional.
February 28, 2025|Blogs
The Tech Oligarchy That Isn’t: Big Tech’s Power Is Overstated
Critics on both sides of the aisle view the “private power” of dominant tech firms as unassailable and protected by anticompetitive conduct, but their alleged monopoly power is often overstated.
February 28, 2025|Blogs
UK Antitrust Enforcers Target Google in Inaugural DMCC Investigation
The Competition and Markets Authority’s looming decision to label Google with significant market status is the first step in a process that threatens to degrade the British consumer experience without achieving meaningful benefits to competition.