Creative Discussion: An Antitrust Podcast

Creative Discussion Podcast: Greg Werden on the DOJ, Merger Guidelines and the Evolving Role of Economists

Tue, 17 Mar 2026 00:00:00 -0400

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 Mentioned

Werden, 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 Bank
Standard Oil Co. of New Jersey v. United States
Chicago Board of Trade v. United States

Alden Abbott on the Chicago School, the Neo-Brandeisian Experiment, and the Future of Conservative Antitrust

Tue, 17 Feb 2026 00:00:00 -0500

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.

Creative Discussion, Episode One: Herb Hovenkamp

Tue, 20 Jan 2026 00:00:00 -0500

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.