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1 Nov 2017

The problem with the United States is, you can get lots of things on the agenda but there’s all these things that keep it from getting all the way to passage.

“The problem with the United States is, you can get lots of things on the agenda but there’s all these things that keep it from getting all the way to passage.”

Speaker: Steve Teles
Episode: Steve Teles and Brink Lindsey on *The Captured Economy*
Publisher: Conversations with Tyler

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1 Nov 2017

One of them was reading Robert Wade’s, Governing the Market, years and years ago, back in graduate school and thinking really systematically about how different political systems can generate different, often desirable economic equilibria, right? That is, South Korea has a set of… As you were talking about governing rules and laws that have some substantial rent for insiders but that also turned out in that particular setting to produce lots of economic returns, I wouldn’t recommend that for Argentina.

“One of them was reading Robert Wade’s, Governing the Market, years and years ago, back in graduate school and thinking really systematically about how different political systems can generate different, often desirable economic equilibria, right? That is, South Korea has a set of… As you were talking about governing rules and laws that have some substantial rent for insiders but that also turned out in that particular setting to produce lots of economic returns, I wouldn’t recommend that for Argentina.”

Speaker: Steve Teles
Episode: Steve Teles and Brink Lindsey on *The Captured Economy*
Publisher: Conversations with Tyler

What Steve said.

The problem with the United States is, you can get lots of things on the agenda but there’s all these things that keep it from getting all the way to passage.