The Captured Economy — How Regulatory Capture Slows Growth and Widens Inequality
What if slowing growth and rising inequality are partly two consequences of the same hidden system?
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world.
Using The Captured Economy by Brink Lindsey and Steven M. Teles as our lens, this investigation examines how regulatory capture can allow organized interests to convert political influence into economic protection.
Lindsey and Teles argue that government-created rents can suppress competition while redistributing gains toward established firms, professionals, and property owners. Their case studies span finance…
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