Monopoly power is all around us: as consumers, business owners, employees, entrepreneurs, and citizens. When we purchase everything from washing machines to groceries, website domains to medical supplies, and even when we select a coffin for a recently deceased loved one, we are constrained by the small set of actors who increasingly control America’s commerce.
Read MoreExecutive Director Barry C. Lynn co-wrote this piece with Yossi Sheffi, examining how some industry trends are creating vulnerabilities that may produce systemic supply chain risks. This is the first article in which an engineer recognized the systemic nature of international production arrangements and the potential for cascading crashes.
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.
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