Open Markets Institute and Family Farm Action Alliance host a virtual briefing on the groundbreaking report, “The Food System: Concentration and Its Impacts,” written by Dr. Mary Hendrickson, a leading food systems expert.
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Open Markets Institute urges DOJ to challenge ViacomCBS’s plans to sell the Simon & Schuster book publisher to Penguin Random House, and calls on the DOJ to immediately take steps to break Amazon’s power over the sale and distribution of books in America.
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Open Markets Institute is thrilled to announce that Rana Foroohar has agreed to join our board of directors. Rana is the global business columnist and an associate editor at the Financial Times and is the global economic analyst at CNN.
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Open Markets Institute joins Family Farm Action Alliance in releasing a groundbreaking report titled, “The Food System: Concentration and Its Impacts,” at a virtual event featuring Sen. Cory Booker. The report was authored by Dr. Mary Hendrickson, Dr. Phil Howard, Emily Miller, and Dr. Douglas Constance.
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New report details how America’s neoliberal vaccine production model is to blame for production obstacles to COVID-19 vaccines, skyrocketing prices, and return of curable diseases.
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Open Markets Institute’s 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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The Open Markets Institute issued the following memorandum on how the next administration can and should reverse course to stop the handful of powerful, vertically integrated corporations from controlling entire agricultural markets, exploiting workers, and mining the countryside.
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Welcome to The Corner. In this issue, we examine Nov. 3 ballot initiatives that aimed to rein in corporate power, and we break down the European Union’s groundbreaking lawsuit against Amazon.
Senior reporter & researcher, Claire Kelloway, writes about how California’s Prop. 22 was really just a plot by food delivery companies to avoid paying employee benefits and protections.
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Open Markets Institute 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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Barry C. Lynn, executive director of Open Markets Institute, joins Zephyr Teachout in conversation about his latest book, “Liberty from All Masters” via Harvard Book Store.
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Sally Hubbard, the director of enforcement strategy at the Open Markets Institute, joins Sarah Frier, technology reporter at Bloomberg, to discuss Hubbard’s new book, “Monopolies Suck” via Politics and Prose bookstore.
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Open Markets Institute filed an amicus brief in the Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit describing the harms of tying arrangements and the legal restrictions on the practice.
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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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