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Barry C. Lynn is the executive director of the Open Markets Institute. Over the past two decades, Lynn pioneered understanding of how the monopolies of the 21st century threaten our democracy, individual liberties, security, and prosperity. Lynn’s efforts to update anti-monopoly law and thinking for the digital era have been fully embraced by the Biden administration and have shaped the thinking of policymakers and scholars around the world. His warnings on structural flaws in international systems predicted today’s supply chain crises, and his proposed remedies have been widely studied by the U.S. government, Europe, Asia, the IMF, and the OECD.
Lynn developed his thinking in three books — End of the Line (2005), Cornered (2010), and Liberty from All Masters (2020), as well as numerous articles, speeches, and congressional testimony. Lynn’s thinking has been profiled in The New York Times, The New Yorker, Politico, The Washington Post, Rolling Stone, The Economist, The Wall Street Journal, and CBS, and his work has been translated into Chinese, Japanese, French, and Danish. Lynn was previously the executive editor of Global Business Magazine and a correspondent for The Associated Press and Agence France-Presse in South America. He holds a B.A. in English from Columbia University.
Open Markets reacts to an American Booksellers Association (ABA) motion for the Federal Trade Commission to include Amazon’s monopolistic actions to control the books market in its wider antitrust case against Amazon.
Following Congress’s votes to ban Tiktok, executive director Barry Lynn urges lawmakers to take a holistic approach to addressing the many threats posed by surveillance- and manipulation-driven business models.
The Open Markets submitted a comment letter calling for aggressive action, including the use of tariff and quotas, to diversify U.S. supply chains.
Executive director Barry Lynn spoke at the 2024 Stigler Antitrust Conference at the University of Chicago, which focused on “Antitrust, Regulation and the Diffusion of Innovation.” Lynn participated in a panel titled “The End of the Beginning for the Antimonopoly Movement?,” along with Zephyr Teachout, Cristina Caffarra, Matt Stoller, and Sohrab Ahmari.
Open Markets Executive Director Barry Lynn responded to the Department of Justice’s landmark announcement, suing Apple for a wide range of unfair competition practices and its monopoly over smartphone markets and applications.
Open Markets Executive Director Barry Lynn released a statement weighing in on the vote in the House of Representatives and overall debate about legislating ByteDance’s divestment of TikTok.
Open Markets Executive Director Barry Lynn released a statement regarding President Biden’s FY2025 budget request.
OMI executive director Barry Lynn is quoted on Lina Khan’s origin story, noting that she joined Open Markets fresh out of college.
Open Markets Executive Director Barry Lynn released a statement on the new task force on the Biden Administration’s newly announced federal task force to rein in corporations’ abuse of their pricing power.
Open Markets Executive Director Barry Lynn testified at a U.S. Trade Representative public hearing on May 2nd, 2024 on “Supply Chain Resilience.”