Publications
When a people set out to structure an economy, the most important decisions revolve around how they make markets and regulate competition. Such decisions determine not merely whether their economy will thrive, and how political power will be distributed. They also shape the character of individuals, communities, and society as a whole..
Read MoreIn Europe's World, Open Markets Institute Executive Director Barry C. Lynn writes that in the late 1940s, the United States adopted an industrial policy as sophisticated as any in world history. Rather than seek to build up power and wealth at home, Americans aimed instead to forge a deep and equitable industrial inter-dependence among nations.
Read MoreThe answer to America’s techno-malaise is to force big corporations to compete more. And to open their patent vaults.
Read MoreWe can “invent our way out” of climate change, but will Big Ag embrace it? Open Markets senior fellow Lina Khan writes on Slate that if we find ourselves living in a new era of food shortages, it will not be due only to our failure to control carbon. It will be due even more to our failure to protect the open-market systems that empower us not merely to exchange, but to think and adapt.
Read MorePhillip Longman, the senior editor of the Washington Monthly and the policy director of the Open Markets Institute, published this piece in the Washington Monthly.
Read MoreOpen Markets Institute policy director Phillip Longman edited a groundbreaking special issue of the Washington Monthly on racial justice. View here, a selection of articles from that issue, which examined the origins of the racial wealth gap, especially its origins in policies that favored monopolies while denying opportunities to African Americans to build assets.
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