Steven Teles

Steven Teles is Associate Professor of Political Science at the Johns Hopkins University and Senior Fellow at the Niskanen Center. He is the co-author, with Brink Lindsey, of The Captured Economy: How the Powerful Enrich Themselves, Slow Down Growth, and Increase Inequality (Oxford, 2017).

How the State Can Make Inequality Worse

How the State Can Make Inequality Worse How the State Can Make Inequality Worse

From zoning and licensing boards to bank bailouts, the state has often been captured by corporations and the wealthy.

Nov 21, 2017 / Steven Teles and Brink Lindsey

Who’s Ready for Hillary?

Who’s Ready for Hillary? Who’s Ready for Hillary?

Depending on whom you ask, Clinton is a triangulating pro-corporate Democrat or a heroic shatterer of glass ceilings—or both.

Nov 24, 2014 / Feature / Kathleen Geier, Joan Walsh, Jamelle Bouie, Doug Henwood, Heather Digby Parton, Steven Teles, and Richard Yeselson