Rethinking Antitrust

#14: Reimagining Antitrust Beyond Neoliberal and NeoBrandesian Thinking

Episode Summary

With the second election of Donald Trump, the efforts by the Biden Administration to redirect antitrust policy away towards a neo-Brandesian theory of antitrust is delayed, and may be dead. But, the broader economic concerns that motivated the first Trump Administration (2017-2020) to move away from the more permissive antitrust policies of the Obama Administration are likely to influence the second Trump Administration. Is there an alternative to the neo-liberal and neo-Brandesian policies of the Obama and Biden Administrations? Joseph Coniglio, the director of antitrust and innovation at the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation (ITIF), joins the podcast to discuss his new paper, A Theory for All and None: A Neo-schumpeterian Model of Antitrust Law and Political Economy.

Episode Notes

With the second election of Donald Trump, the efforts by the Biden Administration to redirect antitrust policy away towards a neo-Brandesian theory of antitrust is delayed, and may be dead. But, the broader economic concerns that motivated the first Trump Administration (2017-2020) to move away from the more permissive antitrust policies of the Obama Administration are likely to influence the second Trump Administration. Is there an alternative to the neo-liberal and neo-Brandesian policies of the Obama and Biden Administrations? Joseph Coniglio, the director of antitrust and innovation at the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation (ITIF), joins the podcast to discuss his new paper, A Theory for All and None: A Neo-schumpeterian Model of Antitrust Law and Political Economy. 

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Joseph Coniglio bio page

A Theory for All and None: A Neo-schumpeterian Model of Antitrust Law and Political Economy