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.
The 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.”
Turning 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.
A 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.
The 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.
The 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.
The Open Markets Institute released a report on China’s global dominance in the production of active pharmaceutical ingredients (API) and how the U.S. can and must correct its dependency problem.
The 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.
Creating 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.
Legal 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.
