Open Markets Chief Economist Brian Callaci testified at Part 4 of the Senate Judiciary hearings on Reviving Competition: 21st Century Antitrust Reforms and the American Worker.
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Chief economist Brian Callaci illustrates how Amazon’s new “franchising model” for trucking companies is really a way for the corporation to pay lower wages and outsource risk.
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Open Markets Institute applauds Biden’s plan to nominate Alvaro Bedoya as the third Democratic commissioner of the FTC.
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Senior Legal Analyst Daniel Hanley demonstrates why Congress should incorporate federal corporate chartering into their antimonopoly agenda to democratize the economy and to ensure corporations operate in the public interest.
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Open Markets submitted a comment to the FTC calling for termination of a 2012 Coopharma consent order and urging the agency to endorse an exemption for employees, contractors and small firms that challenge concentrations of power.
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Open Markets files amicus brief in algorithmic price-fixing case involving Las Vegas hotels, Gibson v. Cendyn Group.
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In this issue, we explore how Intel’s recent woes suggest that Biden administration’s CHIPS and Science Act was insufficient and recommend how the next administration must go further in investing in semiconductor manufacturing to protect the country’s national interest.
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In this issue, we report from the Virginia courthouse where the DOJ is laying out its case against Google for monopolization of ad tech. And we look at Europe’s fascinating debate on how to rebuild its economy.
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OMI legal director Sandeep Vaheesan was quoted in an article in the New York Times on algorithmic price-fixing by companies like RealPage, which helps landlords collude to set rent.
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Legal director Sandeep Vaheesan echos the Biden Administration’s valuable promises to break with the neoliberal antitrust and competition policy program that has one-sidedly created benefits only for large corporations.
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Legal director Sandeep Vaheesan and senior legal analyst Daniel Hanley layout the major legal and policy procedures lined up in 2024 for the banning of noncompete clauses.
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Legal director Sandeep Vaheesan and policy counsel Tara Pincock encourage the public to support the fight of the red states in bringing an important antitrust cause to the Supreme Court.
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The Open Markets Institute filed an amicus brief in two cases currently before the Supreme Court concerning states’ ability to regulate certain companies in the public interest, or as “common carriers”: Moody v. NetChoice and NetChoice v Paxton.
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Legal director Sandeep Vaheesan discusses about a new book that shows how Uber was a symbol of a neoliberal philosophy that neglected public funding and regulation in favor of rule by private corporations.
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Legal director Sandeep Vaheesan and policy counsel Tara Pincock co-published a powerful piece emphasizing that even the biggest publishers are no match for Amazon’s death grip on the book market.
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Open Markets Legal Director Sandeep Vaheesan is quoted in Common Dreams regarding how the new merger guidelines just released by the Justice Department and Federal Trade Commission “put fealty to law front and center again.”
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Legal director Sandeep Vaheesan publishes a piece on how Maine’s voters recently rejected a referendum for publicly owned energy after a disinformation campaign led by the energy lobby.
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Legal director Sandeep Vaheesan analyzes the lens of sociologist Jakob Feinig on challenging the dominant view of money as a scarce commodity and how this aligns with the role of President FDR and the New Deal.
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Legal director Sandeep Vaheesan publishes a piece with former OMI Louis Brandeis Fellow, Andy Fitch, discussing how the limited resources available for federal judges when facing antitrust trials can result in misleading verdicts for the defendants.
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Legal director Sandeep Vaheesan discusses antitrust exceptions in baseball, which permits baseball to collude against minor-league players and cap their salaries at poverty levels, while arbitrarily denying teams to cities and towns. The article furthers the potential overturning of this clause by the Supreme Court.
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Legal director Sandeep Vaheesan published an article on how the political economic significance of the Inflation Reduction Act is still being vigorously debated—is it more neoliberalism or something different and better? Vaheesan draws on the history of the Hoover Dam to offer a progressive scenario: The IRA as a major boost to cooperative and publicly owned electric utilities.
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Legal director Sandeep Vaheesan and chief economist Brian Callaci urge the DOJ and FTC to go further in limiting corporate mergers for the American economy’s benefit.
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Legal director Sandeep Vaheesan and chief economist Brian Callaci wrote an op-ed calling on the Federal Trade Commission to support independent contractors working by banning contracts that exert employment-like control while depriving contractors of rights given to employees.
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Legal director Sandeep Vaheesan writes about the competition problem between large drug companies and their domination over lower-cost rivals using a tactic known as “pay for delay”.
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Legal director Sandeep Vaheesan and chief economist Brian Callaci co-author a report that examines how the Chicago School revolution in antitrust contributed to the growth of franchising, gig work, and other fissured arrangements across the U.S. economy.
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The Open Markets Institute and Public Citizen led a joint letter to the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) alongside consumer advocates and organized labor urging the agency to begin its work on a federal rule banning the use of non-compete clauses in employment contracts.
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On December 9th, the Open Markets Institute joined an amicus brief drafted by the Washington Employment Lawyers Association and Towards Justice concerning the enforceability of arbitration clauses under WA state law.
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On Thursday, November 10, the Open Markets Institute, Towards Justice, and the National Legal Advocacy Network filed a brief in support of McDonald’s workers in Deslandes v. McDonalds.
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On Thursday, September 8, the Open Markets Institute filed an amicus brief on Google’s conduct against Genius is no aberration, but rather, part of its business model and among its broader panoply of unfair competitive practices.
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Case concerns critical issue in antitrust – how to define the product market in which businesses compete
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