Steve Teles is a political science professor at Johns Hopkins University, and a senior fellow at the Niskanen Center. He is one of the main advocates of the abundance agenda, which champions supply-side solutions to many of the problems of modern economies, including housing unaffordability, clean energy, public infrastructure, and more.

In this episode, I got a chance to speak with him about how the abundance movement has grown in recent months, the level of bureaucratic autonomy that he wants government administrators to have, and whether or not government deregulation would make authoritarianism more efficient.

Show Notes

Varieties of Abundance by Steve Teles, Niskanen Center

Cascadian Abundance Substack

Cost Disease Socialism: How Subsidizing Costs While Restricting Supply Drives America’s Fiscal Imbalance by Samuel Hammond and Daniel Takash, Niskanen Center

What libertarianism has become and will become — State Capacity Libertarianism by Tyler Cowen, Marginal Revolution

What State Housing Policies Do Voters Want? Evidence from a Platform-Choice Experiment from now Publishers