Publications
Open Markets Managing Editor, Michael Bluhm, released an article on LinkedIn emphasizing the heightened level of emerging M&A deals, particularly between Big Tech firms, during the COVID-19 pandemic. Bluhm details the dangers and negative consequences brought on workers, wages, and small businesses in result of such consolidation.
Read MoreOpen Markets Legal Director, Sandeep Vaheesan, published an op-ed in Harvard Law Review on June 9, 2020, discussing the need to overcome the most recent antitrust suit brought about in NCAA college basketball in the Ninth Circuit court.
Read MoreOpen Markets' Fellow Mya Frazier writes about the grueling labor conditions faced by female workers in poultry plants. Frazier's article details widespread labor violations in the chicken processing industry.
Read MoreOpen Markets strategic counselor Caroline Fredrickson references a book, The Rule of Five, by Richard J. Lazarus when analyzing recent decisions made by the Supreme Court focusing on environmental protections.
Read MoreOMI director of enforcement strategy Sally Hubbard published an article on ProMarket, deconstructing the manner in which Tech Giants utilize their “platform privilege” to give preferential treatment to their own products and services.
Read MoreOMI legal director Sandeep Vaheesan published an article in Barron’s, reinforcing Congress’ power to enact legislation and regulations that will prohibit monopolistic behaviors in the marketplace.
Read MoreOpen Markets Legal Director, Sandeep Vaheesan, published an op-ed in Barron’s on February 21, 2020 discussing the need to overcome the competition ideology and instead think about market rules for a fair and just economy.
Read MoreFour cases from the past decade alleging employer collusion against workers show that at present, antitrust law is ill-equipped to protect workers. A root cause is the prevailing philosophy of antitrust today, which focuses on consumer welfare and relies on a narrow interpretation of the law and its history.
Read MoreOpen Markets Food & Power researcher and reporter Claire Kelloway published an op-ed on the Washington Monthly on November 21, 2019 on how America’s biggest dairy co-op is trying to become even bigger. Kelloway writes that one critical reason dairy farms feel pressure to consolidate is because milk retailers, buyers, and, processors have spent years consolidating around them. Now, a merger between major milk monopolists threatens to deal another blow to ailing dairy farmers, and its not clear if federal enforcers will do anything to stop it.
Read MoreOpen Markets' Sandeep Vaheesan and Claire Kelloway published a piece on The American Prospect on November 21, 2019 calling for a fair labor market for food chain workers. An overwhelmingly disenfranchised immigrant workforce and corporate collusion and concentration define work in food and agriculture today, they assert. Reforming these labor markets is essential.
Read MoreOpen Markets Fellow Matt Stoller published a piece on Pro-Market on November 13, 2019 writing that the corruption exposed by Israeli antimonopolists has been a key driver of Benjamin Netanyahu’s current political woes. "If Israelis, in one of the most complex geopolitical situations in the world, can address their oligarchs, then people everywhere can do it too," Stoller writes.
Read MoreProf. Sanjukta Paul and Sandeep Vaheesan published a piece on The Nation asserting that the response to the next recession should put economic power back in the hands of the people. “Rebuilding antitrust law is an essential element of the progressive economic policy agenda,” the write. “Antitrust should be part of a suite of reforms in the Green New Deal—something that we sorely need, no matter when or how hard the next recession hits.”
Read MoreOpen Markets Fellow Matt Stoller writes that American workers are increasingly bored and disillusioned, locked in increasingly centralized castles of lazy profit. Some are mistreated, but for even the most scientifically in demand, luxurious poké bowls don’t substitute for doing meaningful work. But he asserts it’s time to set American producers free once again to solve real problems. We’ve done it before. It’s called competition.
Read MoreFast Company published an excerpt from Matt Stoller’s new book, ‘Goliath: The 100-Year War Between Monopoly Power and Democracy.’ In it, Stoller describes how Microsoft avoided the fate of IBM, which was constantly under threat by antitrust authorities.
Read MoreIn this excerpt of his new book "Goliath: The 100-Year War Between Monopoly Power and Democracy," Open Markets Fellow Matt Stoller explains how the "new" Democrats like Dale Bumpers and Bill Clinton of Arkansas worked to rid their state of the usury caps meant to protect the "plain people" from the banker and financier. The Democratic Party embraced not just the tactics, but the ideology of the Chicago School.
Read MoreIn this op-ed for the New York Times, Open Markets Fellow Matt Stoller spotlights how advertising revenue that used to go to quality journalism is now captured by big tech intermediaries, and some of that money now goes to dishonest, low-quality and fraudulent content. "The collapse of journalism and democracy in the face of the internet is not inevitable," he argues. "To save democracy and the free press, we must eliminate Google and Facebook’s control over the information commons."
Read MoreUber, Facebook, and Google are increasingly behaving like the law-flouting financial empires of the 1920s, asserts Open Markets Fellow Matt Stoller. We know how that turned out. "The rule of law is a precious political achievement of liberal democracy," Stoller writes. "It doesn’t just happen. We the people, along with elected public servants, have to make it happen. "
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