Publications
The Open Markets Institute issued the following memorandum on how the next administration can and should reverse course to stop the handful of powerful, vertically integrated corporations from controlling entire agricultural markets, exploiting workers, and mining the countryside.
Read MoreWelcome to The Corner. In this issue, we examine Nov. 3 ballot initiatives that aimed to rein in corporate power, and we break down the European Union’s groundbreaking lawsuit against Amazon.
Senior reporter & researcher, Claire Kelloway, writes about how California’s Prop. 22 was really just a plot by food delivery companies to avoid paying employee benefits and protections.
Read MoreOpen Markets Institute research associate, Garphil Julien, writes in The American Prospect about how Amazon, private equity, and real estate conglomerates are doing what discounters like Walmart did in the 1970s to the retail industry.
Read MoreBarry C. Lynn, executive director of Open Markets Institute, joins Zephyr Teachout in conversation about his latest book, “Liberty from All Masters” via Harvard Book Store.
Read MoreSally Hubbard, the director of enforcement strategy at the Open Markets Institute, joins Sarah Frier, technology reporter at Bloomberg, to discuss Hubbard’s new book, “Monopolies Suck” via Politics and Prose bookstore.
Read MoreOpen Markets Institute filed an amicus brief in the Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit describing the harms of tying arrangements and the legal restrictions on the practice.
Read MoreUber and other powerful gig platforms on Tuesday rewrote California employment law in their own favor and against their workers’ interests by bankrolling the most expensive ballot measure in California history: Proposition 22.
Read MoreOpen Markets Institute filed an amicus brief with the Third Circuit Court of Appeals in the case of BRUCE E. ELLISON, M.D., v. AMERICAN BOARD OF ORTHOPAEDIC SURGERY, INC., I
Read MoreWelcome to The Corner. In this issue, we announce the publication of Sally Hubbard’s new book, Monopolies Suck, and we showcase three groundbreaking articles by the Center for Journalism & Liberty analyzing the crisis of the news industry in America and how to address it.
The Open Markets Institute, along with 36 public advocacy organizations and six scholars, sent the Federal Trade Commission a letter today requesting a status update on their joint petition for rule-making to ban exclusionary contracts.
Read MoreIn Monopolies Suck, Sally Hubbard shows us the seven ways big corporations rule our lives—and what must be done to stop them.
Read MoreOpen Markets Institute is excited to announce that Sally Hubbard, our director of enforcement strategy, today released her first book, “Monopolies Suck: The 7 Ways Big Corporations Rule Your Life and How to Take Back Control”.
Read MorePolicy director Phillip Longman contributes this piece in a series on how to rescue and revitalize journalism.
Read MoreOpen Markets Institute Legal Director, Sandeep Vaheesan, writes in The Law and Political Economy (LPE) Project about how the present rules of antitrust law do not protect consumer welfare but instead promote oligarchy.
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