Steve Teles, The Abundance Agenda

Steve Teles (Johns Hopkins), "The Abundance Agenda," Oct. 8 at 5 pm in Rocky 1.

Has America become a blocked society? Has it become too hard for us to move around or up, build things, or innovate? What part of our national malaise, which helped spur the recent populism of left and right, is a result of laws, institutions, or interest groups that tether us to a frustrating status quo? Steve Teles of Johns Hopkins, a political scientist who has diagnosed the "kludge" that can hobble government action and one of our most provocative political scientists, discussed. Co-sponsored by the Rockefeller Center