The world is eating more farmed fish, and global grain traders intend to control the fish feeding business much as they control the feeding of other farm animals. In her latest piece, Open Markets' reporter Claire Kelloway looks examines the fastest growing form of food production in the world — aquaculture.
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Open Markets has submitted a public comment on February 27, 2019 to the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) on the FTC’s 3-2 clearance of the Staples-Essendant Merger.
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Open Markets fellow Austin Frerick argues on The American Conservative that America’s agricultural system has become extractive, and more and more of the profits are flowing to a few. It is little wonder that monopolies and corporate farms have grown more powerful at the expense of workers and family farmers.
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Open Markets senior fellow Lina Khan and Columbia law professor David Pozen have published a new paper criticizing the idea that digital platforms should be treated as “information fiduciaries.”
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Open Markets fellow Matt Stoller offers his view of the Federal Trade Commission's new task force to monitor the tech giants to WIRED magazine. "They don’t want to do their No. 1 job," asserts Stoller. "Which is to police markets for unfair and anticompetitive behavior.”
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In the Harvard Law Review, Lina Khan and David Pozen explore ways to disrupt the emerging consensus by identifying a number of lurking tensions and ambiguities in the theory of information fiduciaries, as well as a number of reasons to doubt the theory’s capacity to resolve them satisfactorily.
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As Open Markets makes clear through our whole body of work, many if not most of the gravest ills in our society today are caused or made worse by monopolization. The way forward is not to put the state in charge, nor to “let the market work.” It is to use the state to engineer competitive markets in every sector of our economy.
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In Part 3 of NPR Planet Money's antitrust series, Open Markets senior fellow Lina Khan discusses the "Amazon Antitrust Paradox." This podcast episode looks at the present, and toward a future where markets may be dominated by tech giants like Facebook, Amazon, and Google.
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Welcome to The Corner. In this issue, we look at the Green New Deal and how anti-monopoly philosophy is key to reaching this audacious vision. We also highlight a warning by an FTC commissioner on the dangers that platform monopolists pose to democracy and civil rights.
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The Huffington Post's Paul Blumenthal reports that the Obama years were boom times for the party’s cozy relationship with Big Tech, but the party is moving on. He gets Open Markets Institute fellow Matt Stoller's take on how "Nobody can say we need more Google in government.”
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