Barry C. Lynn is a fellow at the New American Foundation in Washington, D.C. He has reported on business from around the world and served as the executive editor of Global Business magazine for seven years. His views have been sought by U.S. politicians as well as by the governments of France, Japan, India, and other nations. His work has been supported by the Rockefeller Foundation. He lives in Washington, D.C., with his wife and two children.
“Barry C. Lynn’s The End of the Line is a sobering wake-up call, a
brilliantly argued analysis of the limits of globalization. By
officially pronouncing Fordism dead, Lynn allows the reader to
understand how dependant U.S. companies have become on China and
other manufacturing-based countries. Every American has a duty to
read this book.”
—Douglas Brinkley, Professor of History and Director of the
Roosevelt Center at Tulane University
“Barry Lynn puts the spotlight on the dangers of our
over-outsourced economy. A catastrophe in a remote province of
China can put a large part of the American electronics industry out
of business. Our business leaders are so focused on the next
quarter bottom line that they overlook the dangers of losing
control of their supply lines. There are serious national security
questions raised as well. Lynn has used his investigative skills to
clearly and readably explain this danger to the general
public.”
—Arthur Hartman, former U.S. ambassador to the Soviet Union and
France
“The benefits, dangers, and sheer inevitability of global
competition are the central forces shaping the economic and social
future of the United States. Barry Lynn’s book, based on careful
reporting, is a real step forward because it dramatizes the stakes
for Americans and clarifies the choices the country has to
make.”
—James Fallows, author of Breaking the News and national
correspondent for The Atlantic Monthly
“Striking in its clarity and originality... Merely for cleanly
spelling out the fragility of our globalized production system and
what needs to be done to avoid the possibility of catastrophic
failure, this is one of the most important books on globalization
in a decade."
--Michael Borrus, former director of the Berkeley Roundtable
on the International Economy and executive in residence at Mohr
Davidow Ventures
“Tom Friedman for grown ups.”-- The Washington Post
“A great primer on the history of the corporate movement toward
outsourcing, logistics and single sourcing… A strength of the book
is Lynn's depth of research into the political, economic and
cultural climates that led to our current business model.” -- USA
Today
“A brilliant examination of the global economy and its danger
zones. It's a book everyone concerned about our national and
economic security should read.” --Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel
"Barry C. Lynn's The End of the Line is a sobering wake-up
call, a brilliantly argued analysis of the limits of globalization.
By officially pronouncing Fordism dead, Lynn allows the reader to
understand how dependant U.S. companies have become on China and
other manufacturing-based countries. Every American has a duty to
read this book."
-Douglas Brinkley, Professor of History and Director of the
Roosevelt Center at Tulane University
"Barry Lynn puts the spotlight on the dangers of our
over-outsourced economy. A catastrophe in a remote province of
China can put a large part of the American electronics industry out
of business. Our business leaders are so focused on the next
quarter bottom line that they overlook the dangers of losing
control of their supply lines. There are serious national security
questions raised as well. Lynn has used his investigative skills to
clearly and readably explain this danger to the general
public."
-Arthur Hartman, former U.S. ambassador to the Soviet Union and
France
"The benefits, dangers, and sheer inevitability of global
competition are the central forces shaping the economic and social
future of the United States. Barry Lynn's book, based on careful
reporting, is a real step forward because it dramatizes the stakes
for Americans and clarifies the choices the country has to
make."
-James Fallows, author of Breaking the News and national
correspondent for The Atlantic Monthly
"Striking in its clarity and originality... Merely for cleanly
spelling out the fragility of our globalized production system and
what needs to be done to avoid the possibility of catastrophic
failure, this is one of the most important books on globalization
in a decade."
--Michael Borrus, former director of the Berkeley Roundtable on the
International Economy and executive in residence at Mohr Davidow
Ventures
"Tom Friedman for grown ups."-- The Washington Post
"A great primer on the history of the corporate movement toward
outsourcing, logistics and single sourcing... A strength of the
book is Lynn's depth of research into the political, economic and
cultural climates that led to our current business model." -- USA
Today
"A brilliant examination of the global economy and its danger
zones. It's a book everyone concerned about our national and
economic security should read." --Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel
The problem with globalized outsourcing, former Global Business executive editor Lynn warns, is that "a breakdown anywhere increasingly means a breakdown everywhere," as when a 2003 earthquake in Taiwan halted semiconductor manufacturing for a week, negatively affecting American electronics firms. National security, he argues, is jeopardized by this "hyperspecialized and hyper-rigid production system" as well; for Lynn, until the NAFTA-izing Bill Clinton came along, our trade policy had been for two centuries designed to prevent such potential catastrophes. Lynn has a knack for finding attractive, easy-to-grasp models from the contemporary business scene-such as using Dell's rise in the 1990s to explain the triumph of logistics management-but readers sometimes have to wade through heavy doses of economic theory to get to the livelier sections. Though some might view his concerns as excessively alarmist, Lynn delivers a welcome new facet to the antiglobalization debate, moving well beyond the stale "corporations are evil" argument to lay out a worrying economic overview. Agent, Raphael Sagalyn. (Aug. 16) Copyright 2005 Reed Business Information.
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