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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 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.
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’s “rule of four" notion, stipulating that “no country should hold more than a 25% market share in any crucial commodity such as critical minerals,” in an article on China’s overwhelming control over many key natural resources.
Open Markets Institute Executive Director Barry Lynn released the following statement regarding the news that the U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) will investigate partnerships between dominant tech giants and artificial intelligence companies, including Microsoft and OpenAI, Amazon and Anthropic, and Google and Anthropic.
Statement in response to Google violating California and federal antitrust laws, stifling competition by removing other publishers like Epic Games from its Play mobile app store.
Open Markets Institute Executive Director Barry Lynn, Policy Director Phillip Longman, and Center for Journalism and Liberty at Open Markets Director Courtney Radsch released a joint statement regarding Joan Donovan’s complaint that Meta improperly used its influence at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government to shut down her research regarding Facebook’s business practices.
Open Markets Institute’s executive director Barry Lynn called for regulators to focus on harms to democracy and human liberty.