Publications
Open Markets Food & Power reporter Leah Douglas published an article in Washington Monthly explaining how corporate-run agricultural co-ops are squeezing the very farmers they’re supposed to protect. The depressed state of rural America is getting a fresh look as a result of the 2016 election, and rightly so. People are asking how to bring back rural prosperity and restore small-town civic life.
Read MoreOpen Markets Institute Advisory Board Member Roger McNamee published an article in Washington Monthly explaining why the social media platform’s business model is such a threat and what to do about it.
Read MoreThe Open Markets Institute's work documenting the effects of corporate concentration was featured in Bloomberg Businessweek.
Read MorePhil Longman published an article in Democracy Journal about the need for antitrust enforcement to curb consolidation in the healthcare sector.
Read MoreWhy liberals have embraced our most dangerously reactionary founder
Read MoreHow the legal profession became Wall Street’s helpmeet
It’s time for the Democratic leader to step aside.
Phil Longman reports in the Washington Monthly about how the real healthcare crisis involves monopolies.
In the 1970s, a new wave of post-Watergate liberals stopped fighting monopoly power. The result is an increasingly dangerous political system.
Read MoreCan users of what is essentially privatized social infrastructure really log off?
Read MoreOpen Markets Food & Power reporter Leah Douglas reviews Philip Howard's "Concentration and Power in the Food System" in the Washington Monthly. His slim book which poses a simple question: who controls what we eat? Four companies decide what meat you eat, two choose what milk you buy, and soon only one will determine what beer you drink. Are we all fine with that?
Read MoreThe credit reporting debate we should be having.
Read MoreTen old/new ideas to give power back to the people.
Read MoreIn the 1970s, a new wave of post-Watergate liberals stopped fighting monopoly power. The result is an increasingly dangerous political system.
Read MoreMonopoly is back: Barry Lynn on the concentration of American economic power — and how we can restore fairness
Read MoreHe had opportunities to help the working class, and he passed them up.
Read MoreIn this piece on The Nation, Open Markets reporter Leah Douglas looks at an obscure legal loophole which has resulted in African Americans losing acres of land throughout the last century. Millions of farmers of all races were pushed off their land in the early part of the century, including around 600,000 black farmers. By 1975, just 45,000 black-owned farms remained.
Read MoreThe company has established its level of dominance because of the failings of our current antitrust laws. To understand why, you first need to understand the scope of Amazon’s power.
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