Executive Director Barry Lynn wrote "Shock Therapy: Building Resilient International Industrial Systems in 2030", a chapter in Global Flow Security, which was edited by Erik Brattberg and Dan Hamilton.
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Executive Director Barry C. Lynn writes Built to Break: The International System of Bottlenecks in the New Era of Monopoly.
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A frenzy of hospital mergers could leave the typical American family spending 50 percent of its income on health care within ten years—and blaming the Democrats. The solution requires banning price discrimination by monopolistic hospitals.
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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..
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In 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.
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The answer to America’s techno-malaise is to force big corporations to compete more. And to open their patent vaults.
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We 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.
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Phillip Longman, the senior editor of the Washington Monthly and the policy director of the Open Markets Institute, published this piece in the Washington Monthly.
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Executive Director Barry Lynn writes about how despite seemingly large growth in beer variety, America’s beer market is actually more concentrated than ever with two giants — Anheuser-Busch Inbev and MillerCoors — controlling some 90 percent of production.
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On the Washington Monthly, Open Markets senior fellow Lina Khan tells the untold story of how the administration tried to stand up to big agricultural companies on behalf of independent farmers, and lost. A generation ago, it seemed that Americans had solved the problem of monopoly in agriculture. Over the last quarter century, this progress has been reversed. Today, the top four meatpacking companies control 82 percent of the beef market—an unprecedented share of the pie.
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Why the pivot to Asia has no clothes.
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Barry C. Lynn and Lina Khan of Open Markets Institute write in Washington Monthly about entrepreneurialism in America.
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To many Americans, it feels like the United States is a different country than it was just a few years ago. It is hard to explain to teenagers today that there was a time, even a short time ago, when political institutions did not seem riddled with corruption and when Americans were not split by stark economic and political lines.
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Amazon’s continued domination of the publishing industry will hurt the book market.
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How the new monopolies are destroying open markets
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Bubbling under the surface of politics is the foreclosure crisis — where the power of big finance is brushing up against the rule of law. The party leaders seem to have decided it is essentially a giant — but unavoidable — tragedy.
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In the Washington Monthly, Barry Lynn explains why organized labor should join with entrepreneurs to bust the corporate monopolies threatening them both.
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