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Inside Philanthropy: Amid Rising Alarms About Big Tech, What Is Philanthropy's Role?
Inside Philanthropy: Amid Rising Alarms About Big Tech, What Is Philanthropy's Role?

Barry Lynn discussed the major role philanthropy could play in standing up to Big Tech.

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ClippingsOpen MarketsApril 23, 2018April 2018, 2018, Facebook, Barry Lynn
Financial Times: Art imitates life in the digital age
Financial Times: Art imitates life in the digital age

After attending University of Chicago’s antitrust and competition conference, Rana Foroohar cited Lina Khan’s Yale paper on Amazon as a “must read.”

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ClippingsOpen MarketsApril 23, 2018April 2018, 2018, Amazon
New York Times: A Time for Big Economic Ideas
New York Times: A Time for Big Economic Ideas

NY Times points to Open Markets Institute's strategy of addressing corporate power and consolidation as a potential solution to addressing wage stagnation.

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ClippingsOpen MarketsApril 22, 2018April 2018, 2018, Labor
The Corner Newsletter, April 20, 2018: Beginning of End for FB? — The Collapse of Car Dealerships
The Corner Newsletter, April 20, 2018: Beginning of End for FB? — The Collapse of Car Dealerships

In this issue of The Corner, we look at how the Zuckerberg hearings on the Hill may prove the beginning of the end for Facebook, and dig into the real reason for the escalating collapse of America’s independent car dealerships.

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NewslettersOpen MarketsApril 20, 20182018, April 2018
MPR News: Why are we seeing so many mergers and acquisitions in 2018?
MPR News: Why are we seeing so many mergers and acquisitions in 2018?

Lina Khan spoke with MPR news host Chris Farrell about antitrust laws and the large number of M&A's in 2018.

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ClippingsOpen MarketsApril 18, 2018April 2018, 2018, Mergers & Acquisitions
Five Myths About VA Healthcare
Five Myths About VA Healthcare

Philip Longman published "Five Myths About VA Healthcare," which dispels misconceptions about the Veteran Administration's delivery of care.

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Op-EdsPhil LongmanApril 17, 20182018, April 2018, Phil Longman
The American Conservative: The Tech Giants Must Be Stopped
The American Conservative: The Tech Giants Must Be Stopped

Reporter William A. Nitze of The American Conservative reports on why tech giants must be stopped.

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ClippingsOpen MarketsApril 16, 2018April 2018, 2018
Against the Cult of Competition
Against the Cult of Competition

In the Law and Political Economy Blog, Sandeep Vaheesan writes how competition is deficient as a general social organizing principle and should be promoted selectively, not categorically.

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Op-EdsSandeep VaheesanApril 11, 20182018, April 2018, Competition Law & Philosophy, Labor, Sandeep Vaheesan
Mark Zuckerberg's Facebook hearing was an utter sham
Mark Zuckerberg's Facebook hearing was an utter sham

In The Guardian, Open Markets' Board Member Zephyr Teachout writes that now that the initial show trial is done, we need the real deal.

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Op-EdsOpen MarketsApril 11, 20182018, April 2018, Facebook
Facebook Can’t Be Fixed, It Needs To Be Broken Up
Facebook Can’t Be Fixed, It Needs To Be Broken Up

In The Daily Beat, Sarah Miller writes about Facebook as a monopoly whose business model is surveillance and manipulation of users and how regulation alone won’t change that.

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Op-EdsOpen MarketsApril 10, 20182018, April 2018, Facebook
The Corner Newsletter, April 5, 2018: Trump's Amazon Attack–The High Cost of Healthcare Concentration–Who Really Owns FB Data?
The Corner Newsletter, April 5, 2018: Trump's Amazon Attack–The High Cost of Healthcare Concentration–Who Really Owns FB Data?

In this issue of The Corner, we address Trump’s attacks on Amazon, highlight an important new study that shows medical costs are higher in concentrated markets, and look at who really owns the data that Facebook collects.

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NewslettersOpen MarketsApril 5, 20182018, April 2018
The Case for Single-Price Health Care
The Case for Single-Price Health Care

In the Washington Monthly, Phil Longman explores how to solve the cost crisis simply by making Medicare prices universal.

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Op-EdsPhil LongmanApril 1, 20182018, April 2018, Phil Longman
Fast Company: This Is How We Take Power Back From Facebook (And Every Other Monopoly)
Fast Company: This Is How We Take Power Back From Facebook (And Every Other Monopoly)

Barry Lynn was cited as a "long-time champion of greater economic competition" in a Fast Company piece exploring the movement to rethink antitrust in light of increased market concentration.

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ClippingsOpen MarketsMarch 28, 2018Barry Lynn, March 2018, 2018, Facebook
Statement by Barry C. Lynn on the FTC's investigation into Facebook
Statement by Barry C. Lynn on the FTC's investigation into Facebook

It's long past time for the FTC to wake up to the dangers posed by Big Tech, not only to privacy, not only to our economy, but to our democracy.

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Press ReleasesOpen MarketsMarch 26, 20182018, Facebook, March 2018
Fines for Facebook Aren’t Enough: The Open Markets Institute Calls on FTC to Restructure Facebook to Protect Our Democracy
Fines for Facebook Aren’t Enough: The Open Markets Institute Calls on FTC to Restructure Facebook to Protect Our Democracy

The Open Markets Institute called on the Senate to confirm pending nominees to the FTC immediately so the agency has the capacity to address the clear danger Facebook presents.

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Press ReleasesOpen MarketsMarch 22, 20182018, Facebook, March 2018
Facebook must be restructured. The FTC should take these nine steps now
Facebook must be restructured. The FTC should take these nine steps now

If FTC commissioners truly are serious about making Facebook serve the interests of the American public, here is a set of actions they should take

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Op-EdsBarry C. LynnMarch 22, 20182018, March 2018, Facebook, Barry Lynn
Public Comments Submitted by the Open Markets Institute for the Antitrust Division’s Roundtable on Exemptions and Immunities from the Antitrust Laws
Public Comments Submitted by the Open Markets Institute for the Antitrust Division’s Roundtable on Exemptions and Immunities from the Antitrust Laws

Read the Open Markets Institute’s public comments to the Department of Justice’s Antitrust Division for the agency’s roundtable on exemptions and immunities from the antitrust laws.

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StatementsOpen MarketsMarch 14, 2018March 2018, 2018
The New Brandeis Movement: America’s Anti-Monopoly Debate
The New Brandeis Movement: America’s Anti-Monopoly Debate

Lina Khan publishes a piece in The Journal of European Competition Law & Practice on the key tenets of the new anti-monopoly movement.

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ArticlesOpen MarketsMarch 13, 2018Politics, March 2018, 2018, Competition Law & Philosophy, Antitrust Law
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