Open Markets research associate Garphil Julien writes about the decline in U.S. bike manufacturing and how the United States can use an industrial strategy to meet soaring bike demand during the Covid-19 pandemic.
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Open Markets Institute filed an amicus brief with the Third Circuit Court of Appeals in the case of BRUCE E. ELLISON, M.D., v. AMERICAN BOARD OF ORTHOPAEDIC SURGERY, INC., I
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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.
The Open Markets Institute, along with 36 public advocacy organizations and six scholars, sent the Federal Trade Commission a letter today requesting a status update on their joint petition for rule-making to ban exclusionary contracts.
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Open Markets Institute is excited to announce that Sally Hubbard, our director of enforcement strategy, today released her first book, “Monopolies Suck: The 7 Ways Big Corporations Rule Your Life and How to Take Back Control”.
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Open Markets Institute Legal Director, Sandeep Vaheesan, writes in The Law and Political Economy (LPE) Project about how the present rules of antitrust law do not protect consumer welfare but instead promote oligarchy.
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Open Markets Institute applauds the groundbreaking U.S. v. Google complaint for taking strong antitrust action against Google, but notes that it only addresses a portion of Google’s monopolization.
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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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Open Markets Institute Director of Enforcement Strategy Sally Hubbard publishes a piece in ProMarket based on her testimony before the House Judiciary antitrust subcommittee on October 1, 2020 in support of stopping Big Tech monopolies.
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Open Markets Institute legal director Sandeep Vaheesan writes in Slate about how the Biden administration could crack down on Google, Apple, and other companies’ use of exclusionary contracts to kneecap competitors.
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Open Markets Institute filed an amicus brief with the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals in the case of UFCW Local 1500 Welfare Fund v. AbbVie, Inc. In building a thicket of 247 patents and pending patents on Humira, AbbVie’s conduct amounts to abuse of the patent system and illegal monopolization.
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Open Markets Institute policy analyst Daniel Hanley writes about the increasing importance to revitalize dormant policies within the Federal Communications Commission, calling for a reinvigorated effort at restructuring consolidated telecommunications markets.
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The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) features Open Markets Executive Director, Barry Lynn, at their New Approaches to Economic Challenges (NAEC) conference, “Confronting Planetary Emergencies - Solving Human Problems.”
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Open Markets Institute joins Public Rights Project and 14 other civil rights, gender justice, and worker rights organizations in filing an amicus brief in support of the case brought by California Attorney General, City of San Francisco, City of Los Angeles, and City of San Diego against Uber and Lyft for misclassifying drivers.
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Open Markets Institute applauds Rep. David Cicilline and the House Judiciary Subcommittee on Antitrust’s report and recommendations based on its 17-month investigation of America’s largest tech companies: Amazon, Google, Facebook, and Apple.
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Open Markets Institute policy analyst, Daniel A. Hanley, argues that broadband access is an essential utility that everyone should have access to in The Prospect.
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