Can users of what is essentially privatized social infrastructure really log off?
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Open 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?
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Google's proposed remedy of the European Commission's demand falls far short of what is necessary to address Google’s abuse of its dominant position in search.
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The Open Markets Institute applauds the Senator Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) for recognizing that America has a monopoly problem and driving forward the conversation about how to address it.
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The credit reporting debate we should be having.
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Ten old/new ideas to give power back to the people.
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Open Markets congratulates European Commissioner for Competition Margrethe Vestager and the European competition authority for this important decision requiring that Google give equal treatment to rival services instead of privileging its own.
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In the 1970s, a new wave of post-Watergate liberals stopped fighting monopoly power. The result is an increasingly dangerous political system.
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Legal director Sandeep Vaheesan argues that the rise of monopoly and oligopoly in America is result of conscious policy choices initiated in the late 1970s and 1980s that succeeded in focusing antitrust law on the narrow concept of economic efficiency and establishing legal standards friendly to powerful businesses.
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Monopoly is back: Barry Lynn on the concentration of American economic power — and how we can restore fairness
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He had opportunities to help the working class, and he passed them up.
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In 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.
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The 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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Amazon announced today that it wants to buy grocery chain Whole Foods for $13.7 billion in cash. If approved by regulators, the deal would worsen the already severe damage that Amazon is doing to America’s competitive, open market system.
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Open Markets fellow Matthew Stoller writes on the Huffington Post that Jeff Bezos has created an empire that’s quickly raising political questions. Like Google and Facebook, Amazon uses technology and data to sidestep traditional restrictions on monopoly power. Now, Bezos is attempting to add more power to his empire with the surprise announcement that the company will pay $13.7 billion for Whole Foods Market.
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And what it means for American democracy.
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Taking money from an investment bank in the form of a speaking fee is not immoral, it is eminently reasonable.
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Silicon Valley is the story of overthrowing entrenched interests through innovation.
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