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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Statement in response to Google violating California and federal antitrust laws, stifling competition by removing other publishers like Epic Games from its Play mobile app store.
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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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Chief economist Brian Callaci shares an opinion piece on the scaremongering tactics attempting to deter the legislation of banning of non-compete clauses in New York.
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Chief economist Brian Callaci gives his take on what the Biden administration aims to do differently though the realization of many inefficiencies in the current approach to economic policy.
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Senior legal analyst Daniel Hanley publishes a piece regarding appalling working conditions for laborers and which states are considering changes to transform each industry.
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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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Senior legal analyst Daniel Hanley analyzes the ways in which antitrust enforcement plays a role in the structure of fair market competition.
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Open Markets’ years of actions and scholarship on Amazon’s monopoly power.
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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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The Open Markets Institute, SOMO and the Balanced Economy Project today made a formal submission to the UK’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) as part of the authority’s antitrust investigation of Amazon’s UK marketplace.
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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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Chief economist Brian Callaci co-author a working paper on No-Poaching Restrictions and the impact had Worker Earnings.
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Director of Europe & transatlantic partnerships Max von Thun describes how merger between Vodafone and Three, two of the biggest telecoms companies in the UK will drive up prices for consumers and kill competition.
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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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