Like many “flyover” cities, St. Louis’s decline is not mainly a story of deindustrialization, but of decisions in Washington that opened the door to predatory monopoly.
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Open Markets Food & Power reporter Leah Douglass published a story on Fortune magazine on how over the past 10 years, America’s big meatpacking corporations have successfully pushed to overturn laws on the books protecting farmers from vertical integration and monopoly power in livestock farming and how Nebraska's "packer ban" is set to be overturned.
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Join New America's Open Markets program for a discussion of Amazon's monopoly over books and what it means for American readers and America's democracy. Some of the nation's best-known authors will discuss their personal experiences with Amazon. Antitrust lawyers and experts in Big Data and price discrimination will then discuss the larger effects of the corporation's behavior, and whether the government should bring a case against Amazon
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Excess sugar intake is killing Americans. Open Markets Food & Power reporter Leah Douglass writes a review of Marion Nestle's "Soda Politics" on the Washington Monthly, a book which demonstrates that a few giant, consolidated beverage companies keep squashing reform efforts aimed at improving the health of consumers.
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Regional inequality is out of control. Here’s how to reverse it.
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American business meets its new master
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Buried in Steven Brill’s convoluted tome are important truths about how to reform our health care delivery system.
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Executive Director Barry Lynn wrote "Shock Therapy: Building Resilient International Industrial Systems in 2030", a chapter in Global Flow Security, which was edited by Erik Brattberg and Dan Hamilton.
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Executive Director Barry C. Lynn writes Built to Break: The International System of Bottlenecks in the New Era of Monopoly.
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A frenzy of hospital mergers could leave the typical American family spending 50 percent of its income on health care within ten years—and blaming the Democrats. The solution requires banning price discrimination by monopolistic hospitals.
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Executive Director Barry C. Lynn co-wrote this piece with Yossi Sheffi, examining how some industry trends are creating vulnerabilities that may produce systemic supply chain risks. This is the first article in which an engineer recognized the systemic nature of international production arrangements and the potential for cascading crashes.
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When a people set out to structure an economy, the most important decisions revolve around how they make markets and regulate competition. Such decisions determine not merely whether their economy will thrive, and how political power will be distributed. They also shape the character of individuals, communities, and society as a whole..
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In Europe's World, Open Markets Institute Executive Director Barry C. Lynn writes that in the late 1940s, the United States adopted an industrial policy as sophisticated as any in world history. Rather than seek to build up power and wealth at home, Americans aimed instead to forge a deep and equitable industrial inter-dependence among nations.
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The answer to America’s techno-malaise is to force big corporations to compete more. And to open their patent vaults.
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We can “invent our way out” of climate change, but will Big Ag embrace it? Open Markets senior fellow Lina Khan writes on Slate that if we find ourselves living in a new era of food shortages, it will not be due only to our failure to control carbon. It will be due even more to our failure to protect the open-market systems that empower us not merely to exchange, but to think and adapt.
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Phillip Longman, the senior editor of the Washington Monthly and the policy director of the Open Markets Institute, published this piece in the Washington Monthly.
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Open Markets Institute policy director Phillip Longman edited a groundbreaking special issue of the Washington Monthly on racial justice. View here, a selection of articles from that issue, which examined the origins of the racial wealth gap, especially its origins in policies that favored monopolies while denying opportunities to African Americans to build assets.
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