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Killing the Competition

The reign of corporate giants has destroyed open markets in America, Barry Lynn writes. Workers from Silicon Valley entrepreneurs to poultry farmers now must submit to their autocratic rule - or pay the price.

The Real Enemy of Unions

Common goals unite organized labor with farmers and small business owners. By overcoming traditional divides, they can form new coalitions to contest the big power that threatens them all.

Isolated Crisis, Sprawling Ripples

The earthquake and tsunami in Japan last March triggered the worst industrial disruption since World War II. At the 2011 Bretton Woods Conference, Barry Lynn explained how extreme concentration of capacity heightens the risk of these industrial crashes.

Who Broke America’s Jobs Machine?

Between 1999 and 2009 America gained zero net jobs. Phil Longman and Barry Lynn chronicle how rising monopolization is stalling the engine of job growth.
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How Detroit Went Bottom-Up

Barry Lynn reports on how monopolization of the automotive supply base critically undermines the stability and sustainability of the entire industry.
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Articles and Op-Eds

January 26 | Harper's Magazine
Barry C. Lynn
May 10 | The Washington Monthly
Barry C. Lynn
March 01 | The Washington Monthly
Barry C. Lynn
Phillip Longman
February 21 | The Washington Post
Barry C. Lynn
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About this Initiative

"Is the power necessary - and is it guarded?"

- John Marshall, 1788

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. To learn more, please click here.

Markets, Enterprise and Resiliency Initiative Staff

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Program Associate, Markets, Enterprise, and Resiliency Initiative

As a program associate for the Markets, Enterprise, and Resiliency...

Phillip Longman
Senior Research Fellow, Health Policy Program

Phillip Longman is a Senior Research Fellow with the New America Foundation’...

Barry C. Lynn
Director, Markets, Enterprise and Resiliency Initiative

Barry Lynn is director of the Markets, Enterprise, and Resiliency Initiative...

Staff

-Barry C. Lynn, Director

-Phillip Longman, Senior Fellow

-Lina Khan, Program Associate

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