# Open Markets Institute The institutional home of the American anti-monopoly revival. Founded in 2017 by [[Barry Lynn]] after his Open Markets Program was separated from the New America Foundation — following criticism his team published of Google, one of New America's largest funders. The origin story is itself an illustration of the thesis: a research program on concentrated power lost its institutional home over a statement about a concentrated funder. Its alumni network is the reason it matters. [[Lina Khan]] worked there as a legal fellow while writing "Amazon's Antitrust Paradox"; she chaired the [[FTC]] from 2021 to 2025. Staff and affiliates moved into the Antitrust Division, congressional staff positions, and the White House Competition Council. The Institute's output spans market-concentration research across agriculture, publishing, pharmacy benefit managers, and cloud infrastructure; the Center for Journalism and Liberty on platform extraction from news; and litigation support. Its throughline is the [[New Brandeis Movement]] claim that monopoly is a problem of self-government, not just of price. > Stub — fill out. See [[US Antitrust and Monopoly Timeline]].