In Cornered he argues that radical consolidation has birthed present day monopolies that dominate and control virtually every major industry in America. Lynn’s work also focuses on the effects of extreme concentration of political economic power. His work argues how the relentless quest for efficiency, and practices like outsourcing to a single factory and “just-in-time” production, could create an increasingly fragile system, where one isolated shock could crash entire industries. In End of the Line he proposes that a deeply interconnected global industrial system undermines safety and freedom. Lynn has written extensively on the potential risks of unfettered globalization and industrial interdependence. He lives in Washington with his wife and two sons.

He has also worked in factories, construction, landscaping, retail, furniture moving, and as a truck driver. 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. He has been a reporter for the Associated Press and Agence France-Presse and worked as a correspondent in Peru, Venezuela, and the Caribbean. Lynn was born in Miami, and is a graduate of Columbia University. 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. The program was shut down, allegedly for criticizing Google, one of New America's chief funders. He was a senior fellow at the New America Foundation think tank in Washington, D.C., directing the Open Markets Program.

Lynn is a liberal American journalist and writer.

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