New report details the dangers of Amazon’s pervasive worker surveillance and proposes solutions that stop surveillance and increase worker power.
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Open Markets’ report uncovers true culprit of book shortage: destructive mergers.
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Open Markets Institute Executive Director, Barry Lynn speaks with Zephyr Teachout about her new book "Break 'Em Up" and David Dayen on his new book "Monopolized."
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Welcome to The Corner. In this issue, we present four important new books that reveal in rich — and alarming — detail how so much of our economic and social lives have fallen under the control of immensely powerful private corporations.
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Government’s failure to prohibit platform monopolists from discriminating exemplified in Amazon’s continued anti-competitive behavior against publishers and authors.
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Open Markets Director Barry Lynn examines how companies like Amazon control our lives, profiting mainly from the same model used by the railroads in the 19th century. As one seller put it, “Amazon is the judge, the jury, and the executioner.”
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Open Markets Institute releases a statement emphasizing the need to preserve good antitrust doctrine and to protect the public from tying by monopolists.
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Meatpacking giant JBS recently acquired the Mountain State Rosen (MSR) lamb processing plant in Greeley, Colorado. The plant processed as much as one-fifth of all U.S. lamb and served ranchers from 15 states, but JBS plans to shut it down, leaving ranchers stranded.
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Politico’s Morning Tech host Alexandra Levine mentions Johnny Ryan will be joining Open Markets Institute as a senior fellow and as a Trans-Atlantic Board advisor for the Center for Journalism & Liberty.
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Following a landmark congressional hearing against big tech companies, Columbia Journalism Review’s Mathew Ingam considers if, and how, competition regulations and antitrust law will adapt to digital networks. Among those interviewed include OMI’s legal director Sandeep Vaheesan. “[The legislative body] has been silent for so long on these questions,” he said. “It felt like a throwback to an earlier time when Congress took its oversight function and matters of market governance seriously.”
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Welcome to The Corner. In this issue, we present four important new books that reveal in rich — and alarming — detail how so much of our economic and social lives have fallen under the control of immensely powerful private corporations.
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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.
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In 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.
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In 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.
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Tune 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.
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Tony 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.”
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The 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.
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On 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.
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