In 1988, he published, with Amarendra Bhattacharya, a study entitled Trade and Industrial Policy in the Developing Countries of East Asia[2] (World Bank Discussion Paper No.
A collection of his speeches was published under the title Transition Years--Reflections on Economic Reform and Social Change in Europe and Central Asia[3] (World Bank, 2004).
During 2004-5 Linn also served as project leader and lead author for the Central Asia Human Development Report (UNDP, 2005).
Linn co-founded in 2015 the international Scaling Community of Practice with Brookings nonresident senior fellow Larry Cooley, and both currently are its co-chairs.
He co-edited and contributed to various books, including: Global Governance Reform: Breaking the Stalemate[4] (Brookings, 2007), Central Asia and the Caucasus: At the Crossroads of Eurasia in the 21st Century[5] (Sage, 2011), Getting to Scale: How to Bring Development Solutions to Millions of Poor People[6] (Brookings Press 2013), Financing Metropolitan Governments in Developing Countries[7] (Lincoln Institute for Land Policy, 2013), Kazakhstan 2050: Toward a Modern Society for All[8] (Oxford University Press, 2014), Central Asia 2050: Unleashing the Region’s Potential[9] (Sage, 2016), The Imperative of Development: The Wolfensohn Center at Brookings[10] (Brookings Press, 2017), China’s Belt and Road Initiative: Potential Transformation of Central and the South Caucasus[11] (Sage, 2019) and The Belt and Road Initiative & Global 2030 Sustainability: Evolution of the BRI after the Second BRI Forum in April 2019[12] (Penguin 2023).