The Captured Economy: How the Powerful Enrich Themselves, Slow Down Growth, and Increase Inequality

By Brink Lindsey ’84 and Steven Teles

Published April 23, 2018

Envy in Politics (Princeton University Press) argues that envy and spite play a large role in politics — especially when in-group status is the focus of campaign rhetoric. The book focuses on politics in the United States and South Africa, two very different countries that both prove Gwyneth McClendon *12’s theories.

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