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Publications
Corporate Monopoly and the Decline of America’s Vaccine Industry
Reports & White Papers
Corporate Monopoly and the Decline of America’s Vaccine Industry
Reports & White Papers

Open Markets Institute’s latest report, “Corporate Monopoly and the Decline of America’s Vaccine Industry,” lays out what the Biden administration should do to repair the U.S. vaccine system and defeat the next pandemic.

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Reports & White Papers
Publications
Civil Eats - California Sets a Dangerous Precedent for Food Delivery Workers Nationwide
Op-Eds
Civil Eats - California Sets a Dangerous Precedent for Food Delivery Workers Nationwide
Op-Eds

OMI reporter, Claire Kelloway, writes in Civil Eats about how California’s Prop. 22 allows food delivery companies to avoid paying employee benefits and protections.

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Op-Eds
The American Prospect - The End of Retail
Op-Eds
The American Prospect - The End of Retail
Op-Eds

OMI research associate, Garphil Julien writes in The American Prospect about how Amazon, private equity, and real estate conglomerates are doing what discounters like Walmart did in the 1970s to the retail industry.

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Op-Eds
California’s Prop 22, Funded by Uber and Gig Platforms, Is an Assault on Workers and Democracy
Press Releases
California’s Prop 22, Funded by Uber and Gig Platforms, Is an Assault on Workers and Democracy
Press Releases

Uber and other powerful gig platforms on Tuesday rewrote California employment law in their own favor and against their workers’ interests by bankrolling the most expensive ballot measure in California history: Proposition 22.

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What We Do

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Shining a light on monopoly power and its dangers to democracy.

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Publications
Slate - The First Thing a Biden FTC Should Tackle
Daniel Hanley
Slate - The First Thing a Biden FTC Should Tackle
Daniel Hanley

Daniel Hanley, policy analyst for Open Markets Institute, writes in Slate that a Biden FTC should first tackle right to repair.

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Daniel Hanley
ProMarket - Three Steps the Biden Administration Should Take to Tackle America’s Monopoly Problem
Daniel Hanley
ProMarket - Three Steps the Biden Administration Should Take to Tackle America’s Monopoly Problem
Daniel Hanley

Daniel Hanley, policy analyst for Open Markets Institute, writes in ProMarket about how the Biden Administration can revive federal anti-monopoly enforcement after 40 years of little action, even when faced with congressional opposition.

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Daniel Hanley
Civil Eats - California Sets a Dangerous Precedent for Food Delivery Workers Nationwide
Claire Kelloway
Civil Eats - California Sets a Dangerous Precedent for Food Delivery Workers Nationwide
Claire Kelloway

OMI reporter, Claire Kelloway, writes in Civil Eats about how California’s Prop. 22 allows food delivery companies to avoid paying employee benefits and protections.

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Claire Kelloway
 

Newsletters

Publications
The Corner Newsletter: October 29, 2020
The Corner Newsletter: October 29, 2020

Welcome to The Corner. In this issue, we announce the publication of Sally Hubbard’s new book, Monopolies Suck, and we showcase three groundbreaking articles by the Center for Journalism & Liberty analyzing the crisis of the news industry in America and how to address it.


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The Corner Newsletter: October 16, 2020
The Corner Newsletter: October 16, 2020

Welcome to The Corner. In this issue, we break down the House antitrust subcommittee’s report on Big Tech and showcase Barry Lynn’s keynote speech to the OECD exposing the damage done to the world economy by neoliberal ideology.

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The Corner Newsletter: October 1, 2020
The Corner Newsletter: October 1, 2020

Welcome to The Corner. In this issue, we announce the release of Barry Lynn’s new book, Liberty from All Masters, and we showcase five groundbreaking reports by Open Markets’ Center for Journalism & Liberty that investigate the crisis in American journalism and what to do about it.

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Exclusive Report

AMERICA’S CONCENTRATION CRISIS

Monopoly power is all around us: as consumers, business owners, employees, entrepreneurs, and citizens. Due to extreme concentrations of wealth and political power, our country is experiencing severe economic inequality, stagnant household income, the collapse of business formation and innovation, and historic levels of political polarization. Our Concentration Crisis Report shows that such concentration is not unique to one or two economic sectors. It is persistent across a diverse range of industries.

 
 
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What They’re Saying

Testimonials

“A tiny nonprofit that’s becoming a lightning rod for growing anger and frustration with Big Tech in America.”

-Quartz

“Open Markets is doing revolutionary and essential work when monopoly looms over American life.”

- VICE

“The Open Markets group led by Lynn contains many of the most respected voices in an increasingly prominent discussion about technology and telecom monopolies, and its findings about corporate consolidation and monopolistic power have been extremely influential in turning antitrust into an important policy issue.”

- New York Magazine

“There have been few think tank teams as effective as Barry Lynn’s [and the Open Market Institute’s].”

- The Atlantic

“The whole idea of a think tank is to cultivate ideas that have an actual impact on The Debate. Barry Lynn [and the Open Markets Institute] has done that better than anyone.”

- Chris Hayes, MSNBC

“The past couple of years have seen a resurgence of political interest in antitrust policy, which is increasingly seen as a potential solution to America’s current dilemma of high corporate profits and slow economic growth…It’s fair to say that the primary intellectual mover behind all of this has been Barry Lynn [and the Open Markets Institute].”

- Vox

“It's difficult to overstate Mr. Lynn’s [and Open Market Institute’s] influence in raising concerns about the market dominance of Google, as well as other tech companies such as Amazon and Facebook.”

- The New York Times

 

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