senior scholar at the Kauffman Foundation
Michael Strain responds to a recent narrative about the downside of American affluence. In [Brink] Lindsey’s telling, individuals in rich democracies are overweight, addicted to their phones, and have declining…
Some great conversations made my time in the car much better this week Steven Teles is one of the most insightful people writing about conservatism and government, from the Federalist…
In a recent column that appeared in the London Times, Matt Ridley reviews a new book by Brink Lindsey and Steven Teles called The Captured Economy: How the Powerful Enrich Themselves, Slow Down…
Federal income taxes get more complicated as people earn more. Do some independent work and you have to estimate your taxes, and file a Section C and a Section SE. Put…
Brink Lindsey makes some good points as he explains “why libertarians and conservatives should stop opposing the welfare state,” and cites one of my favorite books, Richard Cornuelle’s Reclaiming the American…
The latest issue of Bloomberg Businessweek features an article headlined “Want to Sell Caskets? Get a License.” It’s companion article to Sho Chandra’s online piece about the problems associated with…
An argument that leftists have been using is that while the educational gap between blacks and whites (in high school completion) has narrowed, the earnings gap has not, thus indicating…
? in preventing problems in the financial sector, you might want to read the following passage from a new Money magazine interview with the Cato Institute?s Brink Lindsey: What?s your…
Cato’s Brink Lindsey, writing in The Wall Street Journal, says that economics is not the real inequality problem for the schools: Cut through all the statistical squid ink surrounding the…
Writing at NRO, Peter Wood (who has been honored by the Pope Center for his work in higher ed) gives us this thoughtful essay on the subject of, as he…
Brink Lindsey at the Cato Institute uses the term in his call for Libertarians and Democrats to find common ground in the current issue of The New Republic. Sebastian Mallaby…
Brink Lindsey reminds us again that just because defined-benefit pensions from large companies and government programs such as Social Security and Medicaid hide risk, doesn’t mean that they have no…