{"id":21669,"date":"2019-07-19T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-07-19T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/radiofree.asia\/?guid=d52b98e4a7ba58c3f3f2d852955abc76"},"modified":"2019-07-19T07:00:00","modified_gmt":"2019-07-19T07:00:00","slug":"bonus-dont-pass-go-without-learning-more-about-monopolies-with-barry-lynn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2019\/07\/19\/bonus-dont-pass-go-without-learning-more-about-monopolies-with-barry-lynn\/","title":{"rendered":"BONUS: Don&#8217;t Pass Go\u2014without learning more about monopolies (with Barry Lynn)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n        <p>We\u2019re revisiting a timeless topic: monopolies! Expert Barry Lynn shares his thoughts on market concentration, the dangers of industrial monopolies like Boeing, and what \u2018reigning in\u2019 companies like Google, Facebook, and Amazon actually means.<\/p><p>Barry Lynn is the Executive Director of the Open Markets Institute. Previously, he spent 15 years at the New America Foundation researching and writing about monopoly power. He is the author of \u2018Cornered: The New Monopoly Capitalism and the Economics of Destruction\u2019 and \u2018End of the Line: The Rise and Coming Fall of the Global Corporation\u2019.\u00a0<\/p><p>Twitter: @openmarkets<\/p><p>Further reading:\u00a0<\/p><p>https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/business\/archive\/2017\/02\/antimonopoly-big-business\/514358\/<\/p><p>https:\/\/openmarketsinstitute.org\/op-eds-and-articles\/why-competition-matters\/<\/p><p>https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2018\/jul\/26\/google-and-facebook-are-strangling-the-free-press-to-death-democracy-is-the-loser<\/p><p>https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2017\/nov\/02\/facebook-google-monopoly-companies<\/p>\n      \n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"\">Pitchfork Economics with Nick Hanauer<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>        We\u2019re revisiting a timeless topic: monopolies! Expert Barry Lynn shares his thoughts on market concentration, the dangers of industrial monopolies like Boeing, and what \u2018reigning in\u2019 companies like Google, Facebook, and Amazon actually means.B&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1577,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21669"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1577"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21669"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21669\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21670,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21669\/revisions\/21670"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21669"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}