Publications
Open Markets Institute releases a statement saying: The U.S. v. Facebook complaint is a critical step toward ending the corporation’s dangerous control over the flow of information and stopping its monopolistic pattern of buying, copying, or killing competitors.
Read MoreOpen Markets Institute filed an amicus brief in a case before the Supreme Court, AMG Capital Management, LLC v. FTC urging the court to protect the FTC’s ability to recover money from violators of competition and consumer protection law.
Read MoreGarphil Julien, research associate for Open Markets Institute, and Daniel Hanley, policy analyst for Open Markets Institute, write in American Banker that Visa’s acquisition of Plaid highlights the need for more merger enforcement.
Read MoreWelcome to The Corner. In this issue, we explain why the Justice Department should stop a proposed merger among giant publishers, and we discuss our new report on vaccines, which lays out a plan for the Biden administration to stop the next pandemic by reforming the vaccine production system.
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Read MoreOpen Markets Institute urges DOJ to challenge ViacomCBS’s plans to sell the Simon & Schuster book publisher to Penguin Random House, and calls on the DOJ to immediately take steps to break Amazon’s power over the sale and distribution of books in America.
Read MoreOpen Markets Institute is thrilled to announce that Rana Foroohar has agreed to join our board of directors. Rana is the global business columnist and an associate editor at the Financial Times and is the global economic analyst at CNN.
Read MoreOpen Markets Institute joins Family Farm Action Alliance in releasing a groundbreaking report titled, “The Food System: Concentration and Its Impacts,” at a virtual event featuring Sen. Cory Booker. The report was authored by Dr. Mary Hendrickson, Dr. Phil Howard, Emily Miller, and Dr. Douglas Constance.
Read MoreNew report details how America’s neoliberal vaccine production model is to blame for production obstacles to COVID-19 vaccines, skyrocketing prices, and return of curable diseases.
Read MoreOpen Markets Institute’s report, “Corporate Monopoly and the Decline of America’s Vaccine Industry,” lays out what the Biden administration should do to repair the U.S. vaccine system and defeat the next pandemic.
Read MoreThe 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.
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