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- in the news | January 16, 2015 | Open Markets
The age of Amazon is upon us: How one court battle reveals the growing threat of monopoly
Today, given that the central players in the Internet economy are middlemen – platforms that connect buyers and sellers – pricing laws will determi... - in the news | January 07, 2015 | Open Markets
Has Israel's antitrust watchdog blocked Mideast peace?
Lina Khan, a policy at the New America Foundation, published a Washington Post article in June entitled “How the United States became uncompetitive... - in the news | October 17, 2014 | Open Markets
What everyone’s getting wrong about Amazon
Saying that Amazon’s monopoly over books doesn’t matter because it doesn’t also have a monopoly in televisions is like saying that John Rockefeller... - in the news | October 09, 2014 | Open Markets
Amazon Must Be Stopped
*As the New America Foundation’s Barry Lynn has described, “Walmart ... has told Coca-Cola what artificial sweetener to use in a diet soda, it has ... - in the news | September 29, 2014 | Open Markets
Literary Lions Unite in Protest Over Amazon’s E-Book Tactics
The letter to the Justice Department is being written by Barry C. Lynn, a senior fellow at the New America Foundation and author of “Cornered: The ... - in the news | September 29, 2014 | Open Markets
Authors unite against Amazon
On Monday, The New York Times reported that the group will also lobby the Department of Justice to investigate Amazon for illegal monopoly tactics.... -
Thrown Out of Court
Late last year a massive data hack at Target exposed as many as 110 million consumers around the country to identity theft and fraud. As details of... -
Worse Than Michelle Rhee: Teachers And Public Schools Have A Shocking New ...
New America"Barry C. Lynn: In another recent conversation occurring on Salon with Thomas Frank, Barry Lynn of the New America Foundation pointed out that the ... - in the news | June 19, 2014 | Open Markets
What John Roberts Doesn’t Get About Corruption
The irony of the Citizens United and McCutcheon decisions is that they will create a greater push to use bribery prosecutions in close cases to dea... -
A Hachette Job
We could’ve seen this coming. Amazon, embroiled in protracted negotiations over new contract terms with the book publisher Hachette, is using its m... -
How America became uncompetitive and unequal
Lina Khan Sandeep VaheesanSince the early 1980s, executives and financiers have consolidated control over dozens of industries across the U.S. economy. From cable companies ... -
A Remedy for Amazon-Hachette Fight?
Amazon only this week acknowledged the storm it raised earlier this month when it made it much harder for consumers to buy books by Hachette, a maj... -
Obama Should Fire His FCC Chairman
We could’ve seen this coming. Amazon, embroiled in protracted negotiations over new contract terms with the book publisher Hachette, is using its m... -
No Exit: The Digital Edition
Privacy advocates say we should care about privacy because its erosion threatens liberty. "A human being who lives in a world in which he thinks he... -
This Lawsuit Threatens To End Walmart's Exploitative Ways
Last week President Obama urged businesses to “give America a raise.” But even if the minimum wage were raised, it wouldn’t necessarily help a huge... -
Why You Might Pay More Than Your Neighbor for the Same Bottle of Salad Dressing
Retailers don’t really talk about how to compete with Amazon—they talk about how to avoid being decimated by it. Up until now, companies have used ... -
Personal Pricing, Like Really Personal
The National Retail Federation held its annual convention in New York this week, drawing thousands of industry leaders keen to figure out how they’... -
Big Beef
Siddartha MahantaImagine if the federal government mandated that a portion of all federal gas taxes go directly to the oil industry’s trade association, the America... -
Monsanto’s Scary New Scheme
Why Does It Really Want All This Data?
Imagine cows fed and milked entirely by robots. Or tomatoes that send an e-mail when they need more water. Or a farm where all the decisions about ... -
The Rise of Big Chocolate
It's an industry that's largely invisible to consumers, yet central to feeding the world's sweet tooth. Cocoa processing -- the process of turning ... -
The Kings of Candyland
Roaming the candy aisle of my neighborhood Safeway around Halloween is a dizzying encounter with choice. Towering stacks of sumptuous sweets gliste... -
A Year After Sandy, Food and Fuel Supplies Are As Vulnerable As Ever
Siddartha MahantaA year ago, Hurricane Sandy revealed harrowing realities about the basic systems New Yorkers rely on every day. We now know, for example, what happ...