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Publications
Eyes Everywhere: Amazon's Surveillance Infrastructure and Revitalizing Worker Power
Reports & White Papers
Eyes Everywhere: Amazon's Surveillance Infrastructure and Revitalizing Worker Power
Reports & White Papers

Open Markets Institute’s latest report, “Eyes Everywhere: Amazon's Surveillance Infrastructure and Revitalizing Worker Power,” illustrates the dangers of Amazon’s pervasive worker surveillance and the solutions that can be employed to stop that surveillance.

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Reports & White Papers
Publications
ANNOUNCING: Barry Lynn’s New Book - LIBERTY FROM ALL MASTERS
Books
ANNOUNCING: Barry Lynn’s New Book - LIBERTY FROM ALL MASTERS
Books

LIBERTY FROM ALL MASTERS is the culminating work of Open Markets Institute Executive Director Barry Lynn’s 20-year vanguard study of how monopoly power threatens individual liberty, democracy, prosperity, and national security. In the book, Lynn details how Google, Amazon, and Facebook have developed the ability to manipulate the flow of news, information, and business in America, and are fast transforming this power into autocratic systems of control.

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Books
How to Take on Monopoly Power with Zephyr Teachout and David Dayen
Videos
How to Take on Monopoly Power with Zephyr Teachout and David Dayen
Videos

Open Markets Institute hosted a public conversation on August 25, 2020, led by our executive director, Barry Lynn, between Zephyr Teachout on her new book "Break 'Em Up" and David Dayen on his new book "Monopolized."

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Videos
Harper's: The Big Tech Extortion Racket
Articles
Harper's: The Big Tech Extortion Racket
Articles

OMI Director Barry Lynn examines how companies like Amazon control our lives, profiting mainly from the same model used by the railroads in the 19th century. As one seller put it, “Amazon is the judge, the jury, and the executioner.”

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Shining a light on monopoly power and its dangers to democracy.

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Publications
Fixing Facebook Would Take More Than Collective Action – It Requires Structural Change
Daniel Hanley
Fixing Facebook Would Take More Than Collective Action – It Requires Structural Change
Daniel Hanley

Open Markets Policy Analyst, Daniel Hanley, published an article in ProMarket, on July 17, 2020, discussing the steps needed to combat Facebook’s conflicts with hate speech, in addition to just ad boycotts from large corporations.

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Daniel Hanley
Imagining a Democratic Amazon
Sandeep Vaheesan
Imagining a Democratic Amazon
Sandeep Vaheesan

Open Markets Legal Director, Sandeep Vaheesan, published an article in Democracy A Journal of Ideas, on July 16, 2020, highlighting Amazon’s building on their existing dominance as an online retailer during the current COVID-19 pandemic through retaliation against worker’s yearning for better worker conditions.

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Sandeep Vaheesan
The pandemic is setting off a wave of mergers. And that’s a problem.
Michael Bluhm
The pandemic is setting off a wave of mergers. And that’s a problem.
Michael Bluhm

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.

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Michael Bluhm
 

Newsletters

Publications
JBS Aims to Shutter Critical Western US Lamb Processor, DOJ Issues a “Standstill” Order
JBS Aims to Shutter Critical Western US Lamb Processor, DOJ Issues a “Standstill” Order

Meatpacking giant JBS recently acquired the Mountain State Rosen (MSR) lamb processing plant in Greeley, Colorado. The plant processed as much as one-fifth of all U.S. lamb and served ranchers from 15 states, but JBS plans to shut it down, leaving ranchers stranded.

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The Corner Newsletter: June 25, 2020
The Corner Newsletter: June 25, 2020

Welcome to The Corner. In this issue, we examine the European Commission’s newly announced investigation into potentially anti-competitive practices by Apple.

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The Corner Newsletter: June 11, 2020
The Corner Newsletter: June 11, 2020

Welcome to The Corner. In this issue, we examine some of the dangers of the recently approved Schwab-TD Ameritrade merger, address the president’s executive order on Section 230, and highlight our recent conference discussing worker power. 

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Featured
How to Take on Monopoly Power with Zephyr Teachout and David Dayen
How to Take on Monopoly Power with Zephyr Teachout and David Dayen
Building a Truly ‘Public’ Health Care System
Building a Truly ‘Public’ Health Care System
 
 

Exclusive Report

AMERICA’S CONCENTRATION CRISIS

Monopoly power is all around us: as consumers, business owners, employees, entrepreneurs, and citizens. Due to extreme concentrations of wealth and political power, our country is experiencing severe economic inequality, stagnant household income, the collapse of business formation and innovation, and historic levels of political polarization. Our Concentration Crisis Report shows that such concentration is not unique to one or two economic sectors. It is persistent across a diverse range of industries.

 
 
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What They’re Saying

Testimonials

“A tiny nonprofit that’s becoming a lightning rod for growing anger and frustration with Big Tech in America.”

-Quartz

“Open Markets is doing revolutionary and essential work when monopoly looms over American life.”

- VICE

“The Open Markets group led by Lynn contains many of the most respected voices in an increasingly prominent discussion about technology and telecom monopolies, and its findings about corporate consolidation and monopolistic power have been extremely influential in turning antitrust into an important policy issue.”

- New York Magazine

“There have been few think tank teams as effective as Barry Lynn’s [and the Open Market Institute’s].”

- The Atlantic

“The whole idea of a think tank is to cultivate ideas that have an actual impact on The Debate. Barry Lynn [and the Open Markets Institute] has done that better than anyone.”

- Chris Hayes, MSNBC

“The past couple of years have seen a resurgence of political interest in antitrust policy, which is increasingly seen as a potential solution to America’s current dilemma of high corporate profits and slow economic growth…It’s fair to say that the primary intellectual mover behind all of this has been Barry Lynn [and the Open Markets Institute].”

- Vox

“It's difficult to overstate Mr. Lynn’s [and Open Market Institute’s] influence in raising concerns about the market dominance of Google, as well as other tech companies such as Amazon and Facebook.”

- The New York Times

 

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