Publications
The Open Markets Institute, the Authors Guild, and six other writers associations representing thousands of book authors call on the Justice Department to move immediately to block the private conglomerate, Bertelsmann, from buying the book publisher, Simon & Schuster.
Read MoreThe Open Markets Institute and a diverse set of environmental, family farm, farm policy and rural community organizations sent a letter to the White House requesting an executive order to enact a moratorium on mergers and acquisitions in the food and agricultural industries.
Read MoreDaniel Hanley, policy analyst at the Open Markets Institute, and Beth Brodsky, former Louis Brandeis Law and Political Economy Fellow at the Open Markets Institute, write in Common Dreams showing that the FCC’s push to restructure America’s broadcast communication ownership would be a crushing blow to the already deficient levels of female and minority ownership in the broadcast industry.
Read MoreSt. Martin's Press brings together recently published authors Zephyr Teachout and Barry Lynn to discuss what we can do to fight monopolies in 2021.
Read MoreBarry C. Lynn responds to Zach Carter’s review on Liberty From All Masters’.
Read MoreOpen Markets Institute asserts that Google’s threat to stop providing search services to the people of Australia, and Facebook’s threat to block Australians from sharing links to news proves the platforms pose a fundamental threat to the world’s democracies.
Read MoreOpen Markets Institute calls on the Biden Administration to immediately make clear that it intends to block Google's acquisition of FitBit in order to protect Americans and to demonstrate that it will not abide further disrespect by Google of democratic rule of law.
Read MoreWelcome to The Corner. In this issue, we discuss our statement on Amazon’s and Google’s shutdown of Parler and whether Merrick Garland will be the scourge of private monopoly.
Open Markets Institute condemns racism and neo-fascism absolutely and demands that lawmakers and law enforcers move immediately to fix the socially destructive business models of Facebook, Google, Amazon, and other essential platforms.
Read MoreLongtime digital executive Tom Davidson writes in the Center for Journalism & Liberty, a media program within Open Markets Institute, about how dozens of news organizations survive on more than sheer determination to provide neighborhood news.
Read MoreOpen Markets Institute applauds the Australian competition regulator for refusing Google's attempt to circumvent further investigation about its proposed acquisition of Fitbit, urges the EU to reverse its decision to approve the merger, and calls on the U.S. DOJ, France, Germany, the Netherlands, and other nations to reject the deal.
Read MoreWelcome to The Corner. In this issue, we review the historic series of lawsuits targeting Google and Facebook the past two weeks and discuss why these moves don’t go far enough. We also explain our recent amicus brief to the Supreme Court to head off a legal threat to the FTC’s authority.
The Open Markets Institute sent two letters signed by more than 100 organizations and scholars to President-elect Joe Biden urging him to appoint FTC commissioners committed to outlawing noncompete clauses and exclusionary contracting.
Read MoreOpen Markets Institute releases a statement asserting that the new lawsuit against Google by state AG’s makes clear that Google threatens free speech and democracy, and highlighting need for structural separation and nondiscrimination rules.
Read MoreThe president-elect doesn’t need Congress to break up monopoly power.
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