Barry C. Lynn

Director Open Markets at New America

Barry C. Lynn is an expert in the political and economic dangers posed by monopolization. His groundbreaking work detailing how monopolists can destabilize vital industrial systems has attracted the attention of governments in Tokyo, London, Berlin, Brussels, and Beijing, as well as Washington. He is a leader of the growing movement to use traditional republican language and frames to analyze contemporary political economic problems. He is author of ‘Cornered: The New Monopoly Capitalism and the Economics of Destruction’ (Wiley 2010), and ‘End of the Line: The Rise and Coming Fall of the Global Corporation’ (Doubleday 2005). Lynn directs the Markets, Enterprise, and Resiliency Project at the New America Foundation, a non-partisan think tank in Washington. He has written for Harper’s, the Financial Times, Harvard Business Review, the Washington Post, and the National Interest, among others, and has appeared on CNN, CBS, the BBC, National Public Radio, and MSNBC. He was executive editor of Global Business magazine for seven years, and worked as a correspondent in South America and the Caribbean for the Associated Press and Agence France Presse.