Publications
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.
Read MoreOn 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.
Read MoreWhy the pivot to Asia has no clothes.
Read MoreBarry C. Lynn and Lina Khan of Open Markets Institute write in Washington Monthly about entrepreneurialism in America.
Read MoreTo 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.
Read MoreAmazon’s continued domination of the publishing industry will hurt the book market.
Read MoreExecutive Director Barry C. Lynn publishes a report in Challenge Magazine on the growing international system of bottlenecks in the new era of monopoly and the subsequent consequences.
Read MoreHow the new monopolies are destroying open markets
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