Creative Discussion: An Antitrust Podcast

Joseph V. Coniglio joins guest Jonathan Barnett, Torrey H. Webb Professor of Law at the USC Gould School of Law, at the 2026 Antitrust Spring Meeting. They discuss Barnett’s new ITIF report, Europe’s innovation gap, and China’s mercantilist use of competition law. Publications MentionedBarnett, Jonathan M. The Big Steal: Ideology, Interest, and the Undoing of Intellectual Property. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2024.Barnett, Jonathan M. Antitrust Undone: How Competition Enforcers Are Undermining Competition. Washington, DC: Information Technology and Innovation Foundation (ITIF), 2026.Barnett, Jonathan M. “Antitrust Mercantilism: Strategic Devaluation of Intellectual Property Rights and Wireless Markets.”U.S. Department of Justice and Federal Trade Commission. Antitrust Guidelines for the Licensing of Intellectual Property. 1995.

Joseph V. Coniglio hosts the third episode of a new antitrust speaker series and interviews longtime antitrust scholar and retired DOJ economist Greg Werden.​ They discuss Werden’s path from chemistry to economics and his four-decade career at DOJ, discussing both constants and changes in antitrust enforcement. Publications MentionedWerden, Gregory J. The Foundations of Antitrust. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2020.Werden, Gregory J. “The Competitive Process Standard.” Antitrust Law Journal (2024).Areeda, Phillip E., and Herbert Hovenkamp. Antitrust Law: An Analysis of Antitrust Principles and Their Application. Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1978–.Bork, Robert H. The Antitrust Paradox: A Policy at War with Itself. New York: Basic Books, 1978.Cases Mentioned​United States v. Microsoft Corp.United States v. IBM Corp.United States v. AT&T Co.United States v. Philadelphia National BankStandard Oil Co. of New Jersey v. United StatesChicago Board of Trade v. United States

Joseph V. Coniglio hosts the second episode of a new antitrust speaker series and interviews Alden Abbott, senior research fellow at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University and an advisory board member of the Antitrust Education Project.​ They discuss antitrust’s Chicago Revolution, Neo-Brandeisian enforcement, and the Google & Meta cases.

Join Joseph Coniglio, director of ITIF’s Schumpeter Project on Competition Policy, as he inaugurates Creative Discussion: An Antitrust Podcast by engaging in an in-depth discussion with Herb Hovenkamp, James G. Dinan Professor at the University of Pennsylvania Law School. Dubbed the “Dean of Antitrust” by The New York Times, Hovenkamp shares his career journey, insights on his influential Areeda-Hovenkamp Treatise, and perspectives on significant antitrust issues such as the consumer welfare standard and current antitrust litigation targeting Big Tech.