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Obama's Game of Chicken

Two years ago the administration launched an assault on the giant meat and dairy processing companies that dominate rural America. Then, it retreated in silence. Read the untold story of how officials balked, allowing companies to keep bullying farmers and leave them powerless, penniless, and afraid.
Foreign Policy

A Glitch in the Matrix

Over the last year the US has both tightened interdependence with China and flexed military muscle in its backyard. In Foreign Policy, Barry C. Lynn explains how we arrived at this incoherent strategy, why it leaves us unsafe, and how we must re-build our global system.

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The Slow Decline of American Entrepreneurship

Entrepreneurship is central to America's self-identity, economic goals, and political values. But data show that business formation has been falling for a generation, and that our entrepreneurial sector may be in crisis.

The Real Bad Guy in the E-Book Price Fixing Case

With its antitrust lawsuit against Apple and the publishers, the DOJ has struck a great blow against our open market for books. Barry C. Lynn explains how the move will only tighten Amazon's grip -- and hurt readers in the long-term.
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Terminal Sickness

A thirty-year-old policy of deregulation is slowly killing America's airline system - and taking down Cincinnati, Memphis, Pittsburgh, and St. Louis with it. Phillip Longman and Lina Khan report on how the business decisions of a few airlines now threaten the economic vitality of heartland America.
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Policy Papers

Articles and Op-Eds

May 03 | Foreign Policy
Barry C. Lynn
May 02 | Foreign Policy
Barry C. Lynn
January 02 | Harvard Business Review
Barry C. Lynn
December 31 | The New Republic
Lina Khan
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From "Citizens" to "Consumers"

Since 1776, our self-conception as citizens helped us guard against the threat of concentrated power. At Freedom to Connect 2012, Barry C. Lynn explained how an intellectual revolution a generation ago shifted our identity from "citizens" to "consumers." As a result we now embrace of monopoly power -- and cede our rights in the process.

Events

Wednesday, December 12, 2012 - 12:15pm | Washington
Tuesday, April 24, 2012 - 9:30am | Washington
Friday, March 23, 2012 - 9:30am | Washington
Wednesday, February 29, 2012 - 6:30pm | New York
Wednesday, April 27, 2011 - 8:30am | Washington
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About this Initiative

MERI promotes political, industrial, economic, and environmental resilience. We do so by documenting and clarifying the dangers of extreme consolidation, and by fostering discussions of ways to reestablish America’s political economy on a more stable and fair foundation. The Initiative’s work is organized into three main areas, designed specifically to promote:

  1. open markets for our products, ideas, and work;
  2. free and vibrant enterprise and innovation; and
  3. shock-proof industrial and financial systems.

The Initiative is designed to tap into the experience and thinking of real entrepreneurs, engineers, venture capitalists, innovators, business managers, manufacturers, community-oriented bankers, farmers, skilled workers, and other citizens.

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