The Captured Economy: How the Powerful Enrich Themselves, Slow Down Growth, and Increase Inequality

by Brink Lindsey and Steven M Teles

Book Overview

For years, America has been plagued by slow economic growth and increasing inequality. In The Captured Economy, Brink Lindsey and Steven M. Teles identify a common factor behind these twin ills: breakdowns in democratic governance that allow wealthy special interests to capture the policymaking process for their own benefit. They document the proliferation of regressive regulations that redistribute wealth and income up the economic scale while stifling...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 019062776X
• ISBN13: 9780190627768
• Release Date: November 2017
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 232 Pages
• Weight: 0.84 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 5.8" x 8.3"