Publications
The Open Markets Institute led a letter to Federal Trade Commission (FTC) Chairman Andrew Ferguson urging him to vigorously defend the agency’s 2024 rule banning non-compete clauses. The letter, signed by 16 other organizations including the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) and the Strategic Organizing Center, presents the statutory authority, historical precedent, and extensive economic evidence underpinning the rule.
Read MoreThe Washington Monthly published a timely cover story by Phillip Longman, which challenges the dominant political narratives about how to rebuild America's industrial strength, arguing that both Republican and Democratic strategies miss a crucial, historically-proven ingredient: market-shaping regulation.
Read MoreThe Open Markets Institute submits an alternative vision for the Office of Science and Technology Policy’s (OSTP) Development of an Artificial Intelligence (AI) Action Plan, one which fosters widespread innovation, rather than corporate concentration and control.
Read MoreOpen Markets Chief Economist Brian Callaci delivered testimony in support of Minnesota’s non-competes ban before the Minnesota State House Workforce, Labor, and Economic Development Finance and Policy Committee.
Read MoreThe Open Markets Institute filed an amicus brief in Villages v. FTC, one of two cases that challenge the FTC’s landmark prohibition on non-compete clauses.
Read MoreThe Open Markets Institute and Mozilla published a comprehensive report titled "Stop Big Tech from Becoming Big AI: A Roadmap for Using Competition Policy to Keep Artificial Intelligence Open for All.”
Read MoreOpen Markets Institute Food Program Manager Claire Kelloway weighed in on the USDA’s latest actions to improve fair competition in food and agriculture -- actions heavily informed by Open Markets' scholarship.
Read MoreSenior legal analyst Daniel Hanley outlines 25 characteristics that exemplary legislation from Congress should include to effectuate a vigorous antitrust enforcement policy.
Read MoreOpen Markets Legal Director Sandeep Vaheesan put out a statement on the final 2023 merger guidelines from the US Department of Justice and Federal Trade Commission.
Read MoreThe Open Markets Institute welcomed the announcement that gene sequencing company Illumina will sell cancer test developer Grail following inquiries from antitrust regulators.
Read MoreStatement 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.
Read MoreOpen Markets has released two complementary papers on the Robinson-Patman Act that show how we can once again enforce the law to rein in the buyer power of the nation’s largest corporations in retail and manufacturing and stop them from squeezing their smaller suppliers.
Read MoreSenior legal analyst Daniel Hanley publishes an illuminating article on how antimonopoly has been a fundamental aspect of much of the federal regulation since the founding of the United States.
Read MoreCJL Director Dr. Courtney Radsch highlights the internal developments of OpenAI and the confrontations between the firm and Microsoft’s poaching practices.
Read MoreOn November 15, Open Markets Institute and AI Now Institute convened leading experts from the United States and Europe for a wide-ranging discussion about the promise, threats, and regulatory challenges of large scale artificial intelligence (AI).
Read MoreThe Open Markets Institute and the Center for Journalism and Liberty publish a report how just a handful of Big Tech companies – by exploiting existing monopoly power and aggressively co-opting other actors – have already positioned themselves to control the future of artificial intelligence and magnify many of the worst problems of the digital age.
Read MoreOpen Markets submits a public comment to the U.S. Copyright Office on copyright and artificial intelligence.
Two new publications feature Open Markets writers and thinkers defining the ways in which President Biden’s economic policies represent a tremendous “sea change” for America's political economy, which shows early signs of generating shared prosperity and stronger, healthier democracies.
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