Jeff Prince is Professor and Chair of Business Economics and Public Policy at the Kelley School of Business, Indiana University. He's also the Harold A. Poling Chair in Strategic Management and Co-Director of the Institute for Business Analytics at Kelley. He recently served as Chief Economist at the Federal Communications Commission. His primary research focus is on technology markets and telecommunications, having published works on dynamic demand for computers, internet adoption and usage, the inception of online-offline product competition, and much, much more.

Jeff Prince on Economics at the FCC and Platforms

Today, we're delighted to have as our guest, Michael McConnell. If you've been following the news at all lately, you probably know Michael is co-chair of the Facebook Oversight Board, which last week published its decision in the case involving President Trump's access to Facebook following the January 6th riot at the Capitol. Michael is also the Richard and Francis Mallory Professor and Director of the Constitutional Law Center at the Stanford Law School and a Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution. From 2002 to 2009, he served as Circuit Judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the 10th Circuit. Michael has previously held chaired professorships at the University of Chicago and the University of Utah and visiting professorships at Harvard and NYU. He has published widely in the fields of constitutional law theory, has argued 15 cases in the US Supreme Court and served as a law clerk to Supreme Court Justice William Brennan and DC Circuit Court Judge J. Skelly Wright. He has been in an Assistant General Counsel of the OMD, where I had the pleasure of working with him on regulatory reform issues, and a member of the president's Intelligence Oversight Board.

Michael McConnell on Facebook's Oversight Board and Content Moderation

Adam Gamoran is president of the William T. Grant Foundation. Before that he was a professor of sociology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Disclaimer: TPI received a grant from the William T. Grant Foundation that allowed us to explore ways in which the 2019 Evidence Act could be administered more effectively.

Adam Gamoran on Evidence-Based Policy

Michael is Professor Emeritus at the Haas School of Business & Department of Economics, where he was the Sarin Chair in Strategy and Leadership of the Institute for Business Innovation. He has also served as the Deputy Assistant Attorney General for Economic Analysis in the Antitrust Division of the US Justice Department from September 2001 through January 2003. He was the Chief Economist at the Federal Communications Commission from January 1994 through January 1996. He's published extensively on the economics of network industries, intellectual property, telecommunications policy, and antitrust enforcement.

Michael Katz on Challenges to Antitrust Policy

Today, we are delighted to have as our guest, Evan Kwerel, who is Senior Economic Advisor at the Federal Communications Commission. The impact of Evan's career at the FCC was recognized last year, when he was awarded the 2021 Paul Volcker Career Achievement Award for pioneering the use of spectrum auctions. To get an idea of what Evan has accomplished and to introduce the discussion, let me read the first couple of paragraphs from the citation. 
“During more than three decades as a Federal Communications Commission economist, Evan Kwerel has been a key driver of America’s wireless revolution, establishing the first-ever competitive auctions to allocate public airwaves for the transmission of sound, data, and video across the country while raising billions of dollars for the government.
The market-based FCC auctions of electromagnetic spectrum, the radio frequencies that carry voices between cell phones, television shows from broadcasters and online information from one computer to the next, were conceived and implemented by Kwerel based on many of the theories of 2020 Nobel Prize-winning economists Paul Milgrom and Bob Wilson.
Since the early 1990s, a total of 107 FCC spectrum auctions have generated more than $200 billion in revenue for the government.
After winning the Nobel Prize, Milgrom wrote that ‘Evan’s individual contributions were so major that it would have been appropriate for him to share this prize.’”

Evan Kwerel on the Origins of Spectrum Auctions

AI and Tech in Europe with European Parliament’s  Peter Brown

On the most recent episode of TPI's podcast "Two Think Minimum," Dr. Meicen Sun, assistant professor in the School of Information Sciences at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign joined TPI's Scott Wallsten to discuss her research on the effects of a country's decision to control international internet traffic. She finds that China's Great Firewall has helped increase profits of Chinese firms, but at the cost of reducing research quality as scientific collaboration and connections wither. This result presents a dilemma for autocrats if they try to balance short-term and long-term effects.

An Autocrat's Dilemma: Boosting Domestic Business Profits at the Expense of Research Quality

In this episode of Two Think Minimum, MIT Professor Catherine Tucker discusses her research on competition policy and artificial intelligence. The discussion focuses on how AI's unique cost structures differs from that of traditional digital economics, how economists think about AI, and the implications of AI for competition policy and antitrust enforcement. Tucker explains that the current high fixed and marginal costs in AI are likely temporary, and that it's difficult to predict which firms will succeed in the AI industry. She also highlights the challenges AI poses for antitrust enforcement, such as the potential lack of "hot docs," the need for greater technical expertise among regulators, and the importance of understanding the role of data and algorithms in competition analysis.

Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Competition Policy with Catherine Tucker

The Economics of AI: Prediction Machines and Their Impact with Ajay Agrawal

In this episode of Two Think Minimum, Nicolas Petit, Chair in Competition Law at the European University Institute, joins hosts Tom Lenard, Scott Wallsten, and Sarah Oh Lam to explore the pressing challenges facing European competitiveness. Drawing insights from the recent Draghi Report, Petit discusses Europe's innovation gaps, the role of big tech, and the critical policy shifts needed to secure the region's economic future.

European Innovation and Competitiveness with Nicolas Petit

Stablecoin Policy and the Future of Crypto with Christian Catalini

On the latest episode of Two Think Minimum, Gordon Crovitz, Co-CEO and Co-Founder of NewsGuard joins hosts Tom Lenard, Sarah Oh Lam, and Scott Wallsten to discuss the evolving landscape of news credibility, misinformation, and the role of media ratings. They discuss NewsGuard’s approach to assessing news sources, the controversies surrounding its ratings, and the broader implications of government involvement in media regulation.

Future of News Ratings and Media Trust with NewsGuard CEO Gordon Crovitz

Little Tech, Big Challenges: Competing in the AI Era with Matt Perault

William Kovacic and Jon Nuechterlein on Agency Independence and Humphrey's Executor

Rewriting the Rules: Antitrust and the FTC with Jonathan M. Barnett and Larry White

Welcome to a special edition of Two Think Minimum, the podcast of the Technology Policy Institute. This podcast is a replay of our August 18th panel discussion on antitrust policy from the 2025 TPI Aspen Forum. The panel covers Biden to Trump 2 asking whether antitrust traded expertise for populism, they hit mergers versus monopolization, politicization, content moderation, fights, and whether any of this will actually stick. The discussion was moderated by TPI President Emeritus and Senior Fellow Tom Lenard, and featured Dennis Carlton from the University of Chicago, Carl Shapiro from UC Berkeley, Howard Shelanski from Georgetown Law, and Christopher Yoo from the University of Pennsylvania.



2025 TPI Aspen Forum: Current Developments in Antitrust Policy

Inside the NIH w/ Jay Bhattacharya on Innovation, Replication, and mRNA Policy

2025 TPI Aspen Forum: Privacy and Governmental Surveillance

Needham's Laura Martin on Why Disney Should Ditch ABC

Supreme Court and Other Legal Developments

Bill Kovacic on Political Interference, Institutional Decay, and the Future of U.S. Antitrust

The FCC’s Public Interest Standard: Shield or Weapon? with Harold Feld and Tom Hazlett

Monetizing AI: Subscriptions, Ads, or Something New with Catherine Tucker

Shane Greenstein on Co-Invention and the Geography of AI Innovation

Hello, and welcome to another episode of TPI’s podcast Two Think Minimum. I’m Chris McGurn TPI’s Director of Communications. This week, we're fortunate to be talking with Maja Brkan, who is an Assistant Professor in European Law on the faculty of law at Maastricht University in the Netherlands. Maja also has the distinction of being part of our AI conference which was held earlier this week. We will be discussing with her some of the issues that she covered and presented in her paper, which is entitled, Do Algorithms Rule the World? Algorithmic Decision Making and Data Protection in the Framework of the GDPR and Beyond.

Do Algorithms Rule the World? Data Privacy and the GDPR with Maja Brkan

Tyler Cowen is the New York Times bestselling author of the Great Stagnation and writer of a daily blog called Marginal Revolution. He holds the Holbert L. Harris Chair in Economics at George Mason University, writes as a Bloomberg Opinion columnist, and hosts a popular discussion series called Conversations with Tyler where he interviews leading thinkers of our time. Today we're excited to talk with Tyler Cowen about his new book entitled, Big Business: A Love Letter to an American Anti-Hero.

Welcome back to TPI’s podcast, Two Think Minimum. It's Thursday, May 2, 2019, and I’m Scott Wallsten, President and Senior Fellow at the Technology Policy Institute. I am joined today by Sarah Oh, TPI Senior Fellow and a former PhD student of Tyler’s at George Mason University. I will let Sarah start the discussion of his new book!

Tyler Cowen and Big Business: A Love Letter to an American Anti-Hero

Cathryn Ross is director of regulatory affairs at BT. Before that, she was head of Ofwat (Water Services Regulation Authority.) She joins TPI Senior Fellow Bob Hahn on this wide-ranging discussion of the economics of regulation.

BT Director of Regulatory Affairs Cathryn Ross on the Economics of Regulation

Catherine Tucker is the Sloan Distinguished Professor of Management and a Professor of Marketing at MIT Sloan. She is also Chair of the MIT Sloan PhD Program. Her research interests lie in how technology allows firms to use digital data and machine learning to improve performance, and in the challenges this poses for regulation. Tucker has particular expertise in online advertising, digital health, social media, and electronic privacy. Her research studies the interface between marketing, the economics of technology, and law. Disclosure Statement: https://mitmgmtfaculty.mit.edu/cetucker/disclosure/. Professor Tucker’s disclosure statement lists companies she has consulted for, grants she has received, relationships with academics working at a variety of firms, and entities in which she has a significant financial interest. The statement follows the guidelines set out by MIT, American Economic Review, and NBER.

MIT Sloan Professor Catherine Tucker on Privacy, Antitrust, and the Value of Data

Samm Sacks is the Cyber Policy Fellow at New America and a Senior Fellow at the Yale Law School Paul Tsai China Center. Her research focuses on emerging information and communication technology policies globally, particularly in China. Her work covers issues ranging from the US-China technology relationship, the Chinese government's tech ambitions, China's cybersecurity regulatory environment, and the global expansion of Chinese tech companies. In fact, she has worked on Chinese technology policy issues for over a decade, both with the US government and in the private sector, and now at New America and the Yale Law School. She is currently working on a book titled Data and Great Power Competition.

Samm Sacks on the US-China Technology Relationship, Huawei, TikTok, and More

Today, we're happy to have Jonathan Nuechterlein and Howard Shelanski to discuss their new article, which is forthcoming in the Federal Communications Law Journal entitled, “Building What Works: An Analysis of US Broadband Policy.” Jon is a partner at Sidley Austin and has served as General Counsel of the Federal Trade Commission and Deputy General Counsel of the Federal Communications Commission. Howard Shelanski is a professor of law at Georgetown University and partner at Davis Polk and Wardwell LLP. He served as Administrator of the Office for Information and Regulatory Affairs, Director of the FTC’s Bureau of Economics, Chief Economist of the FCC, and Senior Economist for the President's Council of Economic Advisors.

"Building on What Works: An Analysis of US Broadband Policy" with Jon Nuechterlein Howard Shelanski

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