Free Thoughts, Ep. 216: How the Powerful Captured the Economy (with Brink Lindsey and Steven Teles)
Channel: Libertarianism.org
Date: 08/12/2017

Brink Lindsey and Steven M. Teles join us to discuss four pathological policy regimes they say are responsible for the slow growth and high inequality that’s plagued the US economy in the twenty-first century.

The case studies presented in Lindsey and Teles’s new book highlight how financial regulation, occupational licensing, intellectual property, and zoning and land use policies have been captured by the powerful and politically-connected to enrich themselves at others’ expense.

Show Notes and Further Reading

Lindsey and Teles’s book is The Captured Economy: How the Powerful Enrich Themselves, Slow Down Growth, and Increase Inequality (2017): https://www.amazon.com/Captured-Economy-Powerful-Themselves-Inequality/dp/019062776X

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