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Today on the podcast we're going to have Brink Lindsay and Stephen Tellus, and they have

together co-authored a new book, The Captured Economy, How the Powerful Enriched Themselves,

Slow Down Growth, and Increase Inequality.

What happens in this book is that you have a liberal and a libertarian come together.

In fact, together they've helped produce something called liberalarianism and try to

show or set out a series of policy changes we could make that would both boost the rate

of economic growth and give us a more equal society.

So I think this is one of the most important books of the year, but the podcast today

we're going to do a little differently rather than talk to the two of them together.

We're going to give them sequentially.

So first we'll be Stephen Tellus, second we'll be Brink Lindsay, and I'm actually even

going to ask them some of the exact same questions or at least parallel questions so you

can compare the different answers, because again, part of the interesting feature of this

book is that it is a co-authored product from people of two different points of view.

So to introduce Steve, he is a professor at Johns Hopkins University in the Department

of Political Science, and he is also a senior fellow at the Inescanon Institute.

Welcome Steve.

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