Open Markets Institute Legal Director, Sandeep Vaheesan, writes in The Law and Political Economy (LPE) Project about how the present rules of antitrust law do not protect consumer welfare but instead promote oligarchy.
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Welcome to The Corner. In this issue, we break down the House antitrust subcommittee’s report on Big Tech and showcase Barry Lynn’s keynote speech to the OECD exposing the damage done to the world economy by neoliberal ideology.
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Open Markets Institute Director of Enforcement Strategy Sally Hubbard publishes a piece in ProMarket based on her testimony before the House Judiciary antitrust subcommittee on October 1, 2020 in support of stopping Big Tech monopolies.
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Open Markets Institute legal director Sandeep Vaheesan writes in Slate about how the Biden administration could crack down on Google, Apple, and other companies’ use of exclusionary contracts to kneecap competitors.
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Open Markets Institute filed an amicus brief with the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals in the case of UFCW Local 1500 Welfare Fund v. AbbVie, Inc. In building a thicket of 247 patents and pending patents on Humira, AbbVie’s conduct amounts to abuse of the patent system and illegal monopolization.
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Open Markets Institute policy analyst Daniel Hanley writes about the increasing importance to revitalize dormant policies within the Federal Communications Commission, calling for a reinvigorated effort at restructuring consolidated telecommunications markets.
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The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) features Open Markets Executive Director, Barry Lynn, at their New Approaches to Economic Challenges (NAEC) conference, “Confronting Planetary Emergencies - Solving Human Problems.”
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Open Markets Institute joins Public Rights Project and 14 other civil rights, gender justice, and worker rights organizations in filing an amicus brief in support of the case brought by California Attorney General, City of San Francisco, City of Los Angeles, and City of San Diego against Uber and Lyft for misclassifying drivers.
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CJL research and reporting intern Ray Garcia delves into Steven Waldman’s latest proposal, called “A Replanting Strategy,” to save legacy newspapers cornered by predatory hedge funds and chains.
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Open Markets Institute policy analyst, Daniel A. Hanley, argues that broadband access is an essential utility that everyone should have access to in The Prospect.
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Welcome to The Corner. In this issue, we announce the release of Barry Lynn’s new book, Liberty from All Masters, and we showcase five groundbreaking reports by Open Markets’ Center for Journalism & Liberty that investigate the crisis in American journalism and what to do about it.
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This report, “Beggars and Choosers: How Google and Facebook compromise media independence with their corporate donations,” considers the contradictory behavior of Google and Facebook toward journalism
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Welcome to The Corner. In this issue, we examine the dangerous — and somewhat desperate — the strategy behind the recent spate of acquisitions by shopping mall landlords. And we introduce our new report on agricultural cooperatives and how to restore this traditional form of joint ownership by farmers and other workers.
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Open Markets Institute Legal Director, Sandeep Vaheesan, writes about how antitrust, presently interpreted and applied, maintains the corporate domination of people of color on The Appeal.
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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.
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