Publications
Should we break up Amazon and Facebook? Columbia Law School academic and Open Markets senior fellow Lina Khan, who wrote the impactful “Amazon’s Antitrust Paradox” for The Yale Law Journal, joins Verge editor-in-chief Nilay Patel to discuss whether Amazon and Facebook should be broken up and what it might look like if that were to happen.
Read MoreThe Guardian's David Smith reports on how the left and the right are united in the pursuit of greater accountability and transparency from Silicon Valley’s power players. He talks to Open Markets fellow Matt Stoller about how big tech is bringing together conservatives’ anti-monopoly streak with progressives’ suspicion of big business and wealth inequality.
Read MoreOpen Markets Institute today welcomed a new Fellow to our team, Beth Baltzan. In her position as a Fellow, Beth will focus on the impact of monopoly power on trade and its consequences for national security.
Read MoreOpen Markets Institute strongly condemns the Federal Trade Commission’s (FTC) decision to approve the merger of office supply giant Staples and the wholesale office supply distributor Essendant.
Read MoreOpen Markets fellow Austin Frerick writes on Forbes magazine that when policymakers talk about “green jobs,” they tend to default to examples in solar power, wind and other sources of renewable energy—or perhaps manufacturing and supply chain management. They’re less likely to talk about agriculture.
Read MoreOpen Markets Institute calls on Congress and the Federal Trade Commission to immediately investigate how to protect America’s independent news media from the power and predatory business models of Google and Facebook.
Read MoreThe Democratic Party’s loyalty to plutocrats led to political disaster. But many of its leaders won’t change their ways.
Read MoreWelcome to The Corner. In this issue we point out the shortcomings of Apple CEO Tim Cook’s big plan to promote privacy and highlight one Republican congressman’s ambitious plan to counter hospitals’ monopoly power. We also share two feature articles by Open Markets in the new Washington Monthly on how fighting monopoly can help Democrats win the Senate, and on the secret anti-monopoly powers of the FTC.
Read MoreGizmodo's Kashmir Hill published a series about giving up the 'Big Five' tech platforms. In this piece she looks into the challenge of giving up Facebook and take us on her journey. She talks to Open Markets Deputy Director Sarah Miller about Facebook's power and her work in the coalition, Freedom From Facebook.
Read MoreLegal Director Sandeep Vaheesan is quoted in The Intercept by David Dayen arguing that opinions about alcohol market regulation are besides the point; in plain fact, states have been empowered with oversight over alcohol.
Read MoreThe Wall Street Journal reports that Open Markets Institute is part of a coalition calling on the Federal Trade Commission to break up Facebook.
Read MoreOpen Markets believes that reestablishing the right of workers, consumers, and business to litigate cases on a collective basis is essential for taming the excesses of concentrated corporate power.
Read MoreOpen Markets Institute sent a letter to House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerrold Nadler with recommendations on how to approach the problem of monopoly this Congressional session.
Read MoreOpen Markets Institute sent a letter to House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerrold Nadler with recommendations on how to approach the problem of monopoly this Congressional session.
Read MoreOpen Markets Offers Commentary on Democrats’ Rural Gap and Federal Trade Commission (FTC) as ‘Progressives’ Secret Weapon’
Read MoreIn Claire Kelloway’s article “How to Close the Democrats’ Rural Gap” in the January/February issue of The Washington Monthly, she argues that antitrust needs to be part of this solution. She writes, “the biggest cause of growing regional inequality isn’t technology; it’s changes in public policy, embraced by both parties, that have enabled predatory monopolies to strip wealth away from farmers and rural communities and transfer it to America’s snazziest zip codes.”
Read MoreA century ago, reformers gave the Federal Trade Commission extraordinary powers to take on abusive corporations. It’s time to wake the agency up.
Today, the Open Markets Institute joined five law professors and one public interest group in a letter to the National Labor Relations Board criticizing a proposed rule that would make it harder for workers to organize and collectively bargain with franchise businesses.
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