Antitrust has thrived in the shadows for decades as a powerful technocracy, a church with its own rituals, a lobbyfest with pretence to be a “science”. But it is an economic policy tool working alongside other tools. After a lifetime as antitrust economist (and one of the original proponents of the “more economic approach” in Europe), Cristina Caffarra gathers friends in policy and academe to discuss how we escape forward from narrow orthodoxy (and boring discussions) to connecting the dots with everything else that matters to growth, fairness and prosperity – isn’t this what it should all be