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Brink Lindsey

Brink Lindsey is vice president and director of the Open Society Project at the Niskanen Center. He is the author, with Steven M. Teles,of The Captured Economy: How the Powerful Enrich Themselves, Slow Down Growth, and Increase Inequality.

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How to Save the Country: A Free-Market Welfare State

Demagogues like Trump can arise only when the system isn’t delivering. It still can—but only if we create (yes) freer markets and a more generous welfare state.

Brink Lindsey

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