The previously obscure law not only slowed delivery of relief supplies to Puerto Rico—it represents a whole category of ‘rent-seeking’ policies that redistribute income upwards.
Brink Lindsey and Steven Teles
Brink Lindsey is vice president and director of the Open Society Project at the Niskanen Center. Steven Teles is associate professor of political science at Johns Hopkins University, and a senior fellow at the Niskanen Center. Their book, Captured Economy, will be published in November by Oxford University Press.