Publications
The Open Markets Institute co-signed a letter written by Public Knowledge calling on the International Trade Commission to uphold an administrative law judge's decision to reject Qualcomm's request to ban certain iPhone models from American markets. Qualcomm claims that these models use baseband technology from competitor Intel and infringes on Qualcomm's patents.
Read MoreOpen Markets, in conjunction with the New Approaches to Economic Challenges initiative (NAEC) of the OECD, co-hosted a webcast Thursday, April 23 to discuss how to ensure that all vital production systems are built to withstand pandemics, natural disasters, political conflicts, and other shocks.
Read MoreOpen Markets Food & Power reporter Claire Kelloway covers the story of a lawsuit by seven corporate agriculture interest groups against the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency (MPCA) to halt the extension of a public comment period on a proposed mega-dairy expansion in Winona County, Minnesota. The suit highlights broader efforts by agribusiness to silence opposition from rural residents who speak out against large concentrated animal feeding operations in their communities. Her story from Food & Power, re-published on The Fern, is available here.
Read MoreThe new Congress should immediately revive the Office of Technology Assessment
Read MoreOpen Markets Food & Power reporter Claire Kelloway published a story on Civil Eats about how the Trump administration cleared the way for chicken plants to increase their processing line speeds from 140 birds per minute to 175 birds per minute. The change deals a blow to workers and reverses the efforts of labor and animal welfare advocates, who fought to halt poultry line speed increases in 2014.
Read MoreIn this paper, Sandeep Vaheesan and Nathan Schneider explore how cooperative ownership models can mitigate the effects of monopoly and oligopoly and advance the interests of consumers, workers, small business owners, and citizens.
Read MoreRead the remarks of Open Markets Executive Director Barry Lynn at the FTC's Competition and Consumer Protection in the 21st Century hearings.
Read MoreIn this issue, we criticize the FTC for targeting the little while letting the big play. And we wonder why the Brookings Institution is perpetuating the myth airline deregulation worked.
Read MoreThe Open Markets Institute released the following statement today regarding its brief sent to the FCC urging the commission to block the merger of T-Mobile and Sprint
Read MoreHow America’s anti-monopoly laws got turned against the little guy.
Read MoreThe Open Markets Institute released the following statement today after the Federal Trade Commission cleared the $80 billion merger of Praxair, Inc. and Linde AG
Read MoreOpen Markets Institute, Public Knowledge, Common Cause, the Writer's Guild of America and the Consumers Union has filed a public comment to the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) regarding the proposed merger of Sprint and T-Mobile.
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