Publications
Open Markets Institute executive director Barry Lynn published a feature article in Foreign Affairs that details how the United States can use traditional antimonopoly principles to establish a simple quota system designed to “shock proof” international systems, strengthen democracy, and rebuild a liberal world order.
Read MoreBrian Callaci, an economist at Open Markets Institute, recently published “What Do Franchisees Do? Vertical Restraints as Workplace Fissuring and Labor Discipline Devices”.
Read MoreOpen Markets Institute notes that in its decision in NCAA v. Alston, the Supreme Court preserved the NCAA’s general collusive scheme against college basketball and football players and chose to ignore the case’s larger legal and policy implications.
Read MoreWelcome to The Corner. In this issue, we discuss the appointment of Lina Khan as chairwoman of the Federal Trade Commission and the release of five House antitrust bills aimed at taking down Big Tech.
Executive director Barry Lynn is quoted in reporting about President Biden’s appointment of former Open Markets employee Lina Khan to the Federal Trade Commission.
Read MoreFinancial Policy Director Alexis Goldstein writes about how today’s tax code incentivizes the nation’s billionaires to plow as much of their money as possible into investments in these family funds, further amplifying their wealth and giving them larger influence over the political process.
Read MoreDaniel Hanley of Open Markets Institute writes in Competition Policy International about how self-preferencing can violate Section 2 of the Sherman Act.
Read MoreOpen Markets Institute celebrates Lina Khan’s confirmation and looks forward to the expertise she will bring to stopping monopolies at the FTC.
Read MoreOpen Markets Institute applauds the House Judiciary Antitrust Subcommittee for introducing a group of bipartisan bills today aiming to implement recommendations set forth in the subcommittee’s October 2020 report as a big step forward in protecting American democracy and American liberty from the power and control of platform monopolists.
Read MoreOpen Markets Institute urges the United States Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation to immediately deny Google’s motion to transfer in State of Texas et al V Google LLC to the Northern District of California.
Read MoreOpen Markets Institute announces its filing of an amicus brief urging the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 10th Circuit to reverse the district court’s faulty decision in Sanofi’s lawsuit against pharmaceutical giant Mylan.
Read MoreRead our full amicus brief urging the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 10th Circuit to reverse the district court’s faulty decision in Sanofi’s lawsuit against pharmaceutical giant Mylan.
Read MoreWelcome to The Corner. In this issue, we discuss the dangers of health care monopolies — and how the VA hospital system can help to combat them.
Sandeep Vanheesan, legal director, and Claire Kelloway, senior reporter, write in the LPE Project about the insufficient portrayals of antimonopoly policy in the field of agriculture. Their article shines a light on the misrepresented economic statuses of farmers across the states.
Read MorePhillip Longman, policy director at Open Markets Institute, presented testimony at the House Veterans' Affairs Committee Hearing on the Role of Infrastructure in Veterans’ Access to Care and Benefits.
Read MoreOpen Markets’ policy director Phillip Longman testified before the House Veterans Affairs Committee detailing the vital role the 1,700 hospitals, clinics, and other health care facilities run by the Department of Veterans Affairs play in preserving competition in increasingly monopolized medical markets.
Read MoreOpen Markets urges Biden Administration to block Amazon’s monopolistic ploy to take over MGM.
Read MoreLegal Director Sandeep Vaheesan writes about how the FTC can prohibit the harmful surveillance advertising business model used by Facebook, Google, and other platforms as an unfair method of competition, and force the corporations to develop benign methods of making money.
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