Congress doesn’t know enough to stop people enriching themselves at the public expense. Here’s how to fix this.

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Author(s): Henry FarrellPublication Date: October 20, 2017Publication Type: Other WritingBrink Lindsey and Steve Teles’s new book, The Captured Economy: How the Powerful Enrich Themselves, Slow Down Growth and Increase Inequality, looks to build a new account of how rent-seeking shapes the U.S. political economy, and what we can do about it. I asked Lindsey (who is vice-president at the Niskanen Center) and Teles, an associate professor of political science at Johns Hopkins University, about the book.