Max von Thun, Director of Europe and Transatlantic Partnerships and Audrey Stienon, Industrial Policy Program Manager collaborate on a report arguing that without embedding democratic economic governance into AI industrial policy, governments risk entrenching corporate control over critical technologies at the expense of competition, accountability, and broader societal goals.
In this issue, we explore how the Administration’s new H1-B visa policy favors dominant tech monopolies and how Sen. Murphy’s Fair Prices Act favor’s free enterprise
In Chains of Command: The Rise and Cruel Reign of the Franchise Economy (University of Chicago Press, April 20, 2026), Brian Callaci delivers the first comprehensive history of how franchising has shaped American capitalism. It reveals franchising as a hidden architecture of power, one that allows corporations to dominate markets while evading responsibility.
Claire Kelloway weighs in on the news that restaurant food distributor Sysco Corporation is planning to buy its competitor Restaurant Depot: