For the religious activist, see: Barry W. Lynn.
| Barry Lynn | |
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| Born | Miami, Florida |
| Alma mater | Columbia College, Columbia University |
| Occupation | Journalist, writer |
Barry C. Lynn is an American journalist, writer, and a senior fellow at the New America Foundation think tank in Washington, D.C. 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.[1]
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He has been a reporter for the Associated Press and Agence France-Presse. 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.[1]
Lynn has written extensively on the risks of unfettered globalization and industrial interdependence. In ‘’End of the Line’’ he examines how a deeply interconnected global industrial system undermines safety and freedom. His work shows how the relentless quest for efficiency, and practices like outsourcing to a single factory and “just in time production,” create an increasingly fragile system, where one isolated shock can crash entire industries. His thesis prefigured later attention given to supply chain disruptions, most recently prompted by the 2011 earthquake and tsunami in Japan and floods in Thailand.