How Prosperity Transformed America’s Politics and Culture

Brink Lindsey discusses his book, The Age of Abundance: How Prosperity Transformed America’s Politics and Culture.

Brink Lindsey

Brink Lindsey is vice president and director of the Open Society Project at the Niskanen Center. He is the author of several books, including Human Capitalism: How Economic Growth Has Made Us Smarter—and More Unequal and The Age Of Abundance: How Prosperity Transformed America’s Politics and Culture.

Brink Lindsey is author of The Age of Abundance: How Prosperity Transformed America’s Politics and Culture. In a forum here at the Cato Institute, Brink discusses the impact of our economic abundance on the political and cultural directions American society has traced since the 1950s. This video features an excerpt from that speech.