Publications
Open Markets Institute fellow Matthew Scherer, publishes a thought-provoking report warning that the artificial intelligence boom is increasingly showing the hallmarks of a dangerous speculative bubble. The report urges policymakers to prepare now to resist future demands to bail out major tech companies if the market collapses.
Read MoreThe Center for Journalism and Liberty (CJL) at the Open Markets Institute today welcomed the launch of the Washington Monthly Institute with the release of a joint white paper, “AI and the Future of Independent Journalism: The Promise and Peril of Privately Controlled Data Markets for Media Content.”
Read MoreTurning Profit-Maximizing Financiers Into Stewards of the Public Interest marks the first in a planned series of reports examining a variety of industries’ market structures and how they either support or undermine public well-being.
Read MoreA a first-of-its-kind report from the Center for Journalism and Liberty at OMI maps how AI companies source, value, and compensate the news and creative content their systems rely on.
Read MoreThe Children Before Profits State Playbook is a joint project of Community Change, National Women’s Law Center, Open Markets Institute, and Americans for Financial Reform Education Fund. It equips state and local organizers, advocates, and policymakers with practical tools to address the risks posed by the growing role of private equity in U.S. child care markets.
Read MoreThe Open Markets Institute published a blueprint for Europe’s transition towards an open, competitive, and sovereign cloud market, co-authored by Europe director Max von Thun and EU tech policy fellow George Colville.
Read MoreThe Open Markets Institute and Mission:data Coalition published a joint report, “Fair and Open Markets for Virtual Power Plants," on how investor-owned utilities are stifling the growth of virtual power plants (VPPs) and denying customers more affordable and reliable electricity.
Read MoreCreating Fair Food Markets for Affordable Groceries, an expert brief by Food Systems manager Claire Kelloway, shares how policymakers at all levels of government can hold food corporations to account and foster fair grocery markets that provide affordable and readily available food for everyone.
Read MoreLegal director Sandeep Vaheesan co-authors a report examining why Maine's "Pine Tree Power" initiative failed despite broad support for public ownership, offering strategic lessons on how advocates can overcome corporate spending and messaging to win future public power campaigns.
Read MoreThe Enduring Force of the Federal Antitrust Laws, authored by senior legal analyst Daniel Hanley, lays out the most effective strategies to challenge unfair practices and curb corporate domination under current federal laws.
Read MoreCJL director Dr. Courtney Radsch and Europe director Max von Thun author a brief arguing that dominant U.S. platforms such as Google, Meta and X wield unprecedented power to manipulate political discourse, censor individuals and organizations, and shape the flow of information across Europe, the United States and beyond. At the same time, and in coordination with these corporations, the current U.S. administration has launched an “unprecedented assault” on Europe’s right to regulate these corporations in the public interest.
Read MoreThe Open Markets Institute and the Revolving Door Project released a comprehensive joint report on the policy underpinnings of the so-called “abundance agenda,” an economic agenda popularized by Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson in their recent book Abundance.
Read MoreSenior legal analyst Daniel Hanley and industrial policy program manager Audrey Stienon provide insight that to achieve democratic and resilient economies during periods of transition, governments must integrate competition policy into industrial strategy to prevent monopolies, curb corporate resistance to change, and ensure broad, equitable market outcomes.
Read MoreTransportation analyst Arnav Rao warns that decades of deregulation and offshoring have left the U.S. dangerously dependent on foreign-controlled ocean shipping, calling for urgent policy reforms to rebuild domestic maritime strength, protect national security, and stabilize the economy.
Read MoreOpen Markets Institute report, “Engineering the Cloud Commons: A Blueprint for Resilient, Secure, and Open Digital Infrastructure,” offers a long-overdue reconception of cloud computing as a single integrated system whose essential nature for all aspects of modern life requires that it be regulated as a utility of foundational importance to society.
Read MoreOpen Markets Institute’s Europe Director Max von Thun, in collaboration with partners European Policy Centre and Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung, has published a policy briefing urging European Union leaders to strengthen their resolve in tackling Big Tech despite increasing pressure from the new Trump administration and US tech billionaires.
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