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.
The 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.
CJL 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.
The 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.
Senior 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.