Publications
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.
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 MoreExecutive 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 MoreHow the new monopolies are destroying open markets
Read MoreBubbling 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.
Read MoreIn the Washington Monthly, Barry Lynn explains why organized labor should join with entrepreneurs to bust the corporate monopolies threatening them both.
Read MoreIn the Washington Monthly, Barry Lynn explains why creeping consolidation is crushing American livelihoods.
Read MoreChapter 3 of Global Value Chain in a Postcrisis World: "Global Value Chains and the Crisis: Reshaping International Elasticity?" by Hubert Escaith, Nannette Lindenberg, and Sébastien Miroudot.
Read MoreExecutive Director Barry C. Lynn writes on politics of disruption and threats to disrupt within a system characterized by deep industrial interdependence in War, Trade and Utopia.
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