Antitrust has thrived in the shadows for decades as a powerful technocracy, a church with its own rituals, a lobbyfest pretending to be science.  But it is an economic policy tool working alongside other tools. After a lifetime as antitrust expert economist, and 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 therefore innovation”, and move forward to connecting the dots with everything else that matters to growth and prosperity.