Brink Lindsey is a senior vice president at the Niskanen Center, where he plays a leading role in developing and articulating the Center’s distinctive policy vision. He has written about a wide range of policy issues as well as American social, economic, and cultural history.
Prior to joining Niskanen, Lindsey was vice president for research at the Cato Institute. From 2010 to 2012, he was a senior scholar in research and policy at the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation.
Lindsey is the coauthor (with Steven Teles) of the book The Captured Economy: How the Powerful Enrich Themselves, Slow Down Growth, and Increase Inequality (Oxford University Press). His previous books include Human Capitalism: How Economic Growth Has Made Us Smarter—And More Unequal; The Age of Abundance: How Prosperity Transformed America’s Politics and Culture; Against the Dead Hand: The Uncertain Struggle for Global Capitalism; and, with Daniel Ikenson, Antidumping Exposed: The Devilish Details of Unfair Trade Law. He has also edited two ebooks – Reviving Economic Growth and Understanding the Growth Slowdown. In addition, his writings have been published widely in major media outlets.
Lindsey earned an A.B. from Princeton University and a J.D. from Harvard Law School.