Publications
Barry Lynn, executive director of Open Markets Institute, provides testimony at the “Competition Policy for the Twenty-First Century: The Case for Antitrust Reform” hearing for the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Competition Policy, Antitrust, and Consumer Rights, chaired by Sen. Amy Klobuchar.
Read MoreGroups and scholars join to file brief supporting players in their fight against the NCAA cartel.
Read MoreOpen Markets Institute announces three new hires including Managing Editor, Finance Associate and a new position, Chief Economist.
Read MoreThe 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 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 MoreOpen 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 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 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 MoreOpen Markets Institute is pleased to publish an important paper by the economists John Kwoka and Tommaso Valletti that looks at cases in which U.S. and European law enforcers required corporations to unwind completed mergers.
Read MoreOpen Markets Institute releases a statement saying: The U.S. v. Facebook complaint is a critical step toward ending the corporation’s dangerous control over the flow of information and stopping its monopolistic pattern of buying, copying, or killing competitors.
Read MoreOpen Markets Institute filed an amicus brief in a case before the Supreme Court, AMG Capital Management, LLC v. FTC urging the court to protect the FTC’s ability to recover money from violators of competition and consumer protection law.
Read MoreOpen Markets Institute urges DOJ to challenge ViacomCBS’s plans to sell the Simon & Schuster book publisher to Penguin Random House, and calls on the DOJ to immediately take steps to break Amazon’s power over the sale and distribution of books in America.
Read MoreOpen Markets Institute is thrilled to announce that Rana Foroohar has agreed to join our board of directors. Rana is the global business columnist and an associate editor at the Financial Times and is the global economic analyst at CNN.
Read MoreOpen Markets Institute joins Family Farm Action Alliance in releasing a groundbreaking report titled, “The Food System: Concentration and Its Impacts,” at a virtual event featuring Sen. Cory Booker. The report was authored by Dr. Mary Hendrickson, Dr. Phil Howard, Emily Miller, and Dr. Douglas Constance.
Read MoreNew report details how America’s neoliberal vaccine production model is to blame for production obstacles to COVID-19 vaccines, skyrocketing prices, and return of curable diseases.
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