Welcome to The Corner. In this issue, we present four important new books that reveal in rich — and alarming — detail how so much of our economic and social lives have fallen under the control of immensely powerful private corporations.
Read MoreWelcome to The Corner. In this issue, we present four important new books that reveal in rich — and alarming — detail how so much of our economic and social lives have fallen under the control of immensely powerful private corporations.
Read MoreWelcome to The Corner. In this issue, we explain how exclusionary contracts can result in a form of secret monopolization, and we detail Open Markets’ demand that the FTC ban the practice. We also encourage you to read ILSR’s groundbreaking guide to antitrust on the state level.
Read MoreWelcome to The Corner. In this issue, we introduce a groundbreaking study that details how U.S. hospitals fail their communities, as Open Markets’ scholars helped lead the research that produced these surprising and disturbing findings.
Read MoreWelcome to The Corner. In this issue, we examine the European Commission’s newly announced investigation into potentially anti-competitive practices by Apple.
Read MoreWelcome to The Corner. In this issue, we examine some of the dangers of the recently approved Schwab-TD Ameritrade merger, address the president’s executive order on Section 230, and highlight our recent conference discussing worker power.
Read MoreWelcome to The Corner. In this issue, we discuss our response to the criticisms regarding a merger ban during the COVID-19 pandemic, commend newly proposed bills to ban micro-targeting, and highlight the release of professor John Kwoka’s latest book.
Read MoreWelcome to The Corner. In this issue, we discuss a new report that Amazon is exploiting its gatekeeper position to take other companies’ businesses, and we discuss the Open Markets proposal to use anti-monopoly law to address the COVID-19 crisis within America’s dangerously consolidated meatpacking industry.
Read MoreWelcome to The Corner. In this issue, we discuss proposals for a merger moratorium for the duration of the COVID-19 crisis, an online conference on building resilient international systems that was co-hosted by the Open Market Instituteand the OECD, as well as the online conference on right to repair that Open Markets co-hosted with U.S. PIRG.
Read MoreOpen Markets Details How the COVID-19 Pandemic is Devastating News Organizations, Announce the Release of Our New Report on Right to Repair, and Invite Readers to Join Our Conference in Cooperation With the OECD
Read MoreOpen Markets Details Our Proposal to Ban Mergers During the COVID-19 Pandemic and How the Ventilator Shortage Demonstrates How Monopolists Make Us Unsafe
Read MoreOpen Markets Details Our Webpage on Supply Chain Monopoly and Systems Fragility, Sally Hubbard’s Recent Testimony to the U.S. Senate, and Explain Our Comment to the USDA
Read MoreOpen Markets Details Our FTC Comment Regarding the Proposed Vertical Merger Guidelines and Present Our Views on the Supreme Court’s 2018 Decision Ohio v. American Express
Read MoreOpen Markets Details Frontline’s New Report on Amazon and Explains How State Attorneys General Can Appeal a Court Decision Approving T-Mobile’s Purchase of Sprint
Read MoreWelcome to The Corner. In this issue, we present our views on how the courts, the Justice Department, and the FTC are failing to use antitrust law to protect workers from employers who have monopolies in labor markets.
Read MoreWelcome to The Corner. In this issue, we talk about our plan for a health care reform that would lower health care prices without raising taxes or forcing people to change health plans.
Read MoreWelcome to The Corner. In this issue, we discuss Impax Laboratories v. FTC and our latest amicus brief that we submitted in support of the FTC. We hope that all our readers have a happy and safe holiday. The Corner will return on January 9.
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