Open Markets Institute Legal Director, Sandeep Vaheesan, writes about how antitrust, presently interpreted and applied, maintains the corporate domination of people of color on The Appeal.
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Open Markets reporter and senior researcher Claire Kelloway writes in The Washington Monthly about how dairy cooperatives, originally meant to let farmers join forces to get a good price for their milk and stand up to powerful interests, now often squeeze the farmers that ostensibly own them.
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Daniel Hanley of Open Markets Institute writes in Washington Monthly about the significance of President Trump’s reversal of net neutrality.
Daniel Hanley, senior legal analyst, writes about large corporations refusing to advertise on Facebook in order to boycott their unfair Market Power in the technology industry.
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Legal Director, Sandeep Vaheesan, published an article in Democracy Journal highlighting how Amazon has built on it’s existing dominance as an online retailer during the COVID-19 pandemic through retaliation against worker’s yearning for better worker conditions.
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Open Markets Institute Legal Director, Sandeep Vaheesan, published an article in CNN Business about health professional and their maltreatment and harmful working conditions of having the appropriate protective equipment, as well as their punishments for speaking out, amid the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Open Markets Managing Editor, Michael Bluhm, released an article on LinkedIn emphasizing the heightened level of emerging M&A deals, particularly between Big Tech firms, during the COVID-19 pandemic. Bluhm details the dangers and negative consequences brought on workers, wages, and small businesses in result of such consolidation.
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Open Markets Legal Director, Sandeep Vaheesan, published an op-ed in Harvard Law Review on June 9, 2020, discussing the need to overcome the most recent antitrust suit brought about in NCAA college basketball in the Ninth Circuit court.
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Open Markets' Fellow Mya Frazier writes about the grueling labor conditions faced by female workers in poultry plants. Frazier's article details widespread labor violations in the chicken processing industry.
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Open Markets strategic counselor Caroline Fredrickson references a book, The Rule of Five, by Richard J. Lazarus when analyzing recent decisions made by the Supreme Court focusing on environmental protections.
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OMI director of enforcement strategy Sally Hubbard published an article on ProMarket, deconstructing the manner in which Tech Giants utilize their “platform privilege” to give preferential treatment to their own products and services.
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OMI legal director Sandeep Vaheesan published an article in Barron’s, reinforcing Congress’ power to enact legislation and regulations that will prohibit monopolistic behaviors in the marketplace.
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Open Markets Legal Director, Sandeep Vaheesan, published an op-ed in Barron’s on February 21, 2020 discussing the need to overcome the competition ideology and instead think about market rules for a fair and just economy.
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Four cases from the past decade alleging employer collusion against workers show that at present, antitrust law is ill-equipped to protect workers. A root cause is the prevailing philosophy of antitrust today, which focuses on consumer welfare and relies on a narrow interpretation of the law and its history.
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