Publications
Open Markets Institute policy director Phillip Longman edited a groundbreaking special issue of the Washington Monthly on racial justice. View here, a selection of articles from that issue, which examined the origins of the racial wealth gap, especially its origins in policies that favored monopolies while denying opportunities to African Americans to build assets.
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 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
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 argues that Wal-Mart’s unchecked power has transformed the free market into a system of corporate control, making the case for restoring antitrust law to protect economic and democratic freedom.
Read MoreExecutive director Barry C. Lynn argues that Wal-Mart’s unchecked power has transformed the free market into a system of corporate control, making the case for restoring antitrust law to protect economic and democratic freedom.
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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