Escape Forward: Connecting dots beyond the antitrust island
Escape Forward: Connecting dots beyond the antitrust island
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Antitrust has thrived in the shadows for decades as a technocracy, a church with its own rituals, a lobbyfest pretending to be science. But it is an economic policy tool working alongside others. After a lifetime as antitrust expert economist & one of the original proponents of the “more economic approach” in Europe, Cristina Caffarra discusses with friends in policy and academe why we need to escape the myth competition will deliver “a level playing field, consumer choice and innovation” & move forward to connecting the dots with everything else that matters to growth & prosperity.
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The podcast focuses on antitrust policies, economic strategies, and their implications for competition and market dynamics, with episodes exploring themes such as the limitations of competition as a means for consumer choice, the role of regulation, and the interconnectedness of economic growth and prosperity.
Antitrust has thrived in the shadows for decades as a technocracy, a church with its own rituals, a lobbyfest pretending to be science. But it is an economic policy tool working alongside others. After a lifetime as antitrust expert economist & one of the original proponents of the “more economic approach” in Europe, Cristina Caffarra discusses with friends in policy and academe why we need to escape the myth competition will deliver “a level playing field, consumer choice and innovation” & move forward to connecting the dots with everything else that matters to growth & prosperity.
Cristina Caffarra speaks with Yariv Adan, founder of ellipsis Ventures and former Google AI leader, about why he believes AI will expand human potential by making intelligence widely accessible and accelerating scientific and economic progress. They also discuss his AI-native venture capital firm and debate Europe's pursuit of AI sovereignty, weighing the risks of dependence on U.S. frontier models against the need to build competitive European capabilities.
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