Open Markets - FTC Releases Report on Right to Repair – It’s an Excellent Start

Daniel Hanley walks us through the FTC’s May 5, 2021 report to Congress on the Right to Repair.

ArticlesDaniel HanleyMay 6, 20212021, May 2021, Daniel Hanley, Antitrust Law, Secondary Feature, FTC

The Supreme Court Gutted the FTC’s Power to Make Cheating Corporations Pay for Their Crimes

Daniel Hanley of Open Markets Institute writes about how a recent Supreme Court decision has starkly narrowed the FTC’s power to easily return stolen funds to consumers.

Open Markets - A Plan to Fix the US Bike Shortage

Open Markets research associate Garphil Julien writes about the decline in U.S. bike manufacturing and how the United States can use an industrial strategy to meet soaring bike demand during the Covid-19 pandemic.

ArticlesOpen MarketsApril 13, 2021October 2020, 2020, International Systems, Garphil Julien, Transportation

The End of Retail

Open 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.

‘You’re Cornered if You’re a City.’ How Concentration in the Municipal Bond Market Is Raising Borrowing Costs

Open Markets Institute research associate, Garphil Julien, addresses a longstanding structural problem—a group of the nation’s biggest banks that has cornered the market for municipal bond underwriting in Barron’s.

Op-Eds, ArticlesOpen MarketsSeptember 22, 20202020, Antitrust Law, Democracy and Ideology, September 2020, Garphil Julien

Automation of Labor, Labor of Automation - Frank Pasquale, Sandeep Vaheesan

Open Markets Institute Legal Director, Sandeep Vaheesan, interviews Frank Pasquale about his forthcoming book, New Laws of Robotics: Defending Human Expertise in the Age of AI on Law and Political Economy Project.

The Big Tech Extortion Racket

Open Markets Director Barry Lynn examines how companies like Amazon control our lives, profiting mainly from the same model used by the railroads in the 19th century. As one seller put it, “Amazon is the judge, the jury, and the executioner.”

Can Restaurants Survive the Pandemic Without Delivery Apps?

Claire Kelloway writes about the overwhelming control exerted by delivery apps, and the sustainability of restaurants in the midst of this era.

Blogs, ArticlesOpen MarketsJune 24, 2020Food & Agriculture, June 2020, Primary Feature, Claire Kelloway

Connecticut Public Interest Law Journal - A Topology of Multisided Digital Platforms

Open Markets Institute policy analyst, Daniel Hanley, published an academic article where he analyzes the ways in which big tech companies, including Google, Amazon, Facebook, Apple and Microsoft, engage in anti-competitive behavior as a means of retaining their users — essentially reducing the options for users to seek business elsewhere.

War, Trade, and Utopia

Barry Lynn publishes an article discussing straightforward politics of industrial interdependence and dependence, in a system marked by extreme concentrations of industrial capacity.

ArticlesBarry C. LynnMarch 14, 20202020, March 2020, Barry Lynn

Cooperative Enterprise as an Antimonopoly Strategy

Open Markets Institute legal director Sandeep Vaheesan and Nathan Schneider at the University of Colorado published a paper on the Pennsylvania State University Law Review on cooperative enterprise and its place in the antimonopoly tradition. They lay out the advantages of cooperative firms relative to investor-owned corporations and offer ideas on reforming antitrust to protect and promote cooperation.

ArticlesOpen MarketsNovember 20, 2019November 2019, 2019, Competition Law & Philosophy

Accommodating Capital and Policing Labor: Antitrust in the Two Gilded Ages

Open Markets Legal Director Sandeep Vaheesan published an article in the Maryland Law Review on how antitrust law protected capital and punished labor in the original Gilded Age and in the second Gilded Age in which we live. Although the specific doctrines and rules today are different than they were a century ago, antitrust is once again doing little to check corporate domination of markets and also preventing a significant fraction of the labor force from organizing.

ArticlesOpen MarketsAugust 27, 20192019, August 2019, Competition Law & Philosophy, Labor

A Skeptical View of Information Fiduciaries

In the Harvard Law Review, Lina Khan and David Pozen explore ways to disrupt the emerging consensus by identifying a number of lurking tensions and ambiguities in the theory of information fiduciaries, as well as a number of reasons to doubt the theory’s capacity to resolve them satisfactorily.

ArticlesOpen MarketsFebruary 25, 20192019, February 2019, Competition Law & Philosophy

Cooperative Enterprise as an Antimonopoly Strategy

In this paper, Sandeep Vaheesan and Nathan Schneider explore how cooperative ownership models can mitigate the effects of monopoly and oligopoly and advance the interests of consumers, workers, small business owners, and citizens.

ArticlesOpen MarketsNovember 6, 2018November 2018, 2018

AFL-CIO Commission on the Future of Work and Unions - Wealth, Power, Control, and Command Private Monopoly and the American Worker

Executive Director Barry Lynn writes in a paper for the AFL-CIO Commission on the Future of Work and Unions, about the political origins of America’s monopoly problem, the magnitude of the problem, and some of the specific ways in which Big Tech corporations such as Google and Uber make the monopoly problem worse.

ArticlesOpen MarketsJuly 15, 20182018, July 2018, Competition Law & Philosophy, Law