Publications
The Open Markets Institute and the Center for Journalism & Liberty today welcome Johnny Ryan to their respective teams, with the veteran privacy and data specialist serving as a senior Open Markets fellow and joining the CJL’s Trans-Atlantic Board as an advisory member.
Read MoreIn this report, “COVID-19 and the End of Laissez-Faire Globalization,” Open Markets Fellow Beth Baltzan asserts that production shortages caused by the COVID-19 pandemic can only be effectively solved by enacting policies such as enforceable labor standards and rules prohibiting anti-competitive behavior, thereby creating a marketplace that fosters fair competition.
Read MoreIn a Q&A between Columbia Journalism Review’s chief digital writer Mathew Ingram and OMI’s legal director Sandeep Vaheesan, the two discussed the impact of the congressional antitrust hearing while examining the admissions made by Big Tech CEOs, including Amazon’s Jeff Bezos. “Amazon appears to be ‘tying’ logistics with visibility and prominence on its marketplace. This sort of tying is illegal when done by a firm with market power, which Amazon has in ecommerce,” Vaheesan said.
Read MoreTune in to part two of our two-part panel series focused on how concentration in the American hospital sector is creating a crisis in care quality.
Read MoreTony Jarvis writes an op-ed in Media Post about the new book that Sally Hubbard, director of enforcement strategy at Open Markets Institute, wrote entitled, “Monopolies Suck.”
Read MoreThe Open Markets Institute releases a statement urging the U.S. government to immediately take a series of actions in addition to forcing the sale of TikTok.
Read MoreOn August 3, 2020, the Open Markets Institute submitted an amicus brief in the Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit describing the harms of tying arrangements and the legal restrictions on the practice. Jay Forester, at Forester Haynie in Dallas, generously served as the Open Markets Institute’s local counsel and filed the brief.
Read MoreIn the face of the pandemic’s devastating effect on the U.S. economy, the congressional antitrust investigation on Google, Amazon, Apple and Facebook revealed the combined earnings of the big tech companies added $250 billion to their market value, The Hill reports. Barry Lynn, OMI’s executive director, is cited from his statement on taking heed of big tech’s predatory behaviors and effecting fundamental changes to their business models.
Read MoreDaniel Hanley of Open Markets Institute writes in Washington Monthly about the significance of President Trump’s reversal of net neutrality.
The COVID-19 pandemic has shattered the lives and businesses of millions of American workers and entrepreneurs. And yet amid the country’s worst economic downturn in almost a century, Big Tech corporations continue to profit from predatory and illegal business practices.
Read MoreThe Big Tech was a great victory for the American people. Questions by committee members brought a vast amount of damaging information to the public and raised fundamental questions about the legality of these corporations' business models and practices.
Read MoreThe Open Markets Institute commends Rep. David Cicilline and Rep. Jerrold Nadler for leading a masterful investigation of Big Tech CEOs in the first half of the July, 29, 2020 hearing. Congress is making it absolutely clear that Google, Facebook, Apple, and Amazon abuse their power in ways that threaten American democracy.
Read MoreOpen Markets Institute offers a short history of its work – on Amazon alone – to show how long Amazon has been building power, and why it is vital to fix Big Tech now.
Read MoreThe Open Markets Institute applauds Rep. David Cicilline for conducting the historic Big Tech hearing, and urges members of the committee to seize the opportunity to protect American democracy from these dangerous corporations.
Read MoreWelcome to The Corner. In this issue, we explain how exclusionary contracts can result in a form of secret monopolization, and we detail Open Markets’ demand that the FTC ban the practice. We also encourage you to read ILSR’s groundbreaking guide to antitrust on the state level.
Read MoreOpen Markets Institute joins Groundwork Collaborative to release a paper highlighting how the COVID-19 pandemic and economic crisis has exposed and exacerbated the flaws in the current global trading system, specifically as shortages of live-saving supplies like masks and ventilators have emerged across the world and countries have resorted to export bans to address them.
Read MoreOpen Markets Institute provides a current reading list on media monopoly, tech and democracy.
Read MoreOn July 21, 2020 3, Open Markets Institute filed a petition demanding the Federal Trade Commission ban exclusionary contracting by monopolists and other dominant firms. 30+ public interest groups and scholars signed the petition, including Food & Water Action, the Institute for Local Self-Reliance, and the American Economic Liberties Project. The petition calls on the FTC to use its unfair methods of competition authority to prohibit exclusionary contracting.
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