Join us on Wednesday 23rd June, 6pm at NESTA, as ResPublica Fellow and internationally renowned journalist and economics commentator, Barry C. Lynn will be discussing the phenomenon of the industrial crash.

His talk will show how concentration has destabilized some of our most vital industrial systems, by making them “too integrated to fail”, and provide a rather scary picture of how the world’s production systems are actually structured. It will provide an engineering-centered, common sense-based demonstration of why we have no choice but to restructure our industrial systems, hence why we must rethink entirely our competition and trade regulation regimes.

Barry C. Lynn is director of the Markets, Enterprise, and Resiliency Initiative and a Senior Fellow at the New America Foundation. He is author of Cornered: The New Monopoly Capitalism and the Economics of Destruction (Wiley 2010) and End of the Line: The Rise and Coming Fall of the Global Corporation (Doubleday 2005). Lynn’s groundbreaking writings on industrial interdependence among nations and the growing fragility of complex industrial systems have attracted wide attention, and he has been invited to present his work to high officials in Japan, Germany, Britain, France, Taiwan, and the European Commission, as well as in the White House and U.S. Treasury Department.