Open Markets Applauds the European Commission's Finding Against Google for Abuse of Dominance

Open Markets congratulates European Commissioner for Competition Margrethe Vestager and the European competition authority for this important decision requiring that Google give equal treatment to rival services instead of privileging its own.

Press ReleasesOpen MarketsJuly 22, 20172017, July 2017, Google

With Amazon on the rise and a business tycoon in the White House, can a new generation of Democrats return the party to its trust-busting roots?

In the 1970s, a new wave of post-Watergate liberals stopped fighting monopoly power. The result is an increasingly dangerous political system.

Resurrecting 'A Comprehensive Charter of Economic Liberty': The Latent Power of the Federal Trade Commission

Legal director Sandeep Vaheesan argues that the rise of monopoly and oligopoly in America is result of conscious policy choices initiated in the late 1970s and 1980s that succeeded in focusing antitrust law on the narrow concept of economic efficiency and establishing legal standards friendly to powerful businesses.

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