Barry C. Lynn

Barry C. Lynn is a liberal American journalist and writer. He was a senior fellow at the New America Foundation think tank in Washington, D.C., directing the Open Markets Program. The program was shut down, allegedly for criticizing Google, one of New America's chief funders. He has written extensively on globalization, economics, and politics for such publications ranging from The Financial Times and Forbes to Mother Jones and the Harvard Business Review.

Biography

Lynn was born in Miami, and is a graduate of Columbia University. He has been a reporter for the Associated Press and Agence France-Presse and worked as a correspondent in Peru, Venezuela, and the Caribbean. Prior to joining New America in 2001, he was the executive editor of Global Business, a monthly magazine targeted at the managers of multi-national enterprises. The emails sent by Slaughter "clearly show the influence that Google wields over New America’s operations," stated the Open Markets team in a statement provided to The Intercept. A collective letter signed by 25 New America’s former and current fellows, including prominent journalists such as George Packer of The New Yorker and notable scholars such as Evgeny Morozov of Harvard University was delivered to Anne-Marie Slaughter and New America’s directors. The letter argued that Slaughter's handling of the situation had damaged the think tank’s reputation.

Lynn has moved the team of researchers and advocates that had been with him at New America, and has created an independent nonprofit organization, the Open Markets Institute.

Publications

Books Barry C. Lynn, End of the Line: The Rise and Coming Fall of the Global Corporation, New York, Doubleday, 2005 Barry C. Lynn, Cornered: The New Monopoly Capitalism and the Economics of Destruction, Hoboken, John Wiley & Sons, 2010 Barry C. Lynn, Liberty from All Masters: The New American Autocracy vs. the Will of the People, New York, St. Martin's Press, 2020

Articles Barry C. Lynn, "The fragility that threatens the world's industrial systems" , Financial Times, October 15, 2005 Barry C. Lynn, "Wake up to the old-fashioned power of the new oligopolies" , Financial Times, February 14, 2006 Barry C. Lynn, "Save globalisation from radical global utopians" , Financial Times, May 29, 2006 Barry C. Lynn, "Breaking the chain: The antitrust case against Wal-Mart" , Harper's Magazine, July 2006 Barry C. Lynn, "Rules That Wilt the Free Market in British Groceries" , Financial Times, April 5, 2007 Barry C. Lynn, "How Detroit Went Bottom-Up" , The American Prospect, September 19, 2009 Barry C. Lynn, "Corporate giants have too much power" , CNN, February 16, 2010 Barry C. Lynn, "Let's Put Mom and Pop Back in Business" , Washington Post, February 21, 2010 Barry C. Lynn, "Who Broke America's Jobs Machine?" (co-authored with Phillip Longman) , Washington Monthly, March/April 2010 Barry C. Lynn, "The Real Enemy of Unions" , Washington Monthly, May/June 2011 Barry C. Lynn, "No Free Parking for Monopoly Players: Time to Revive Anti-Trust Law" , The Nation, June 8, 2011 Barry C. Lynn, "The New China Syndrome" , Harper's Magazine, November 2015