Steven Teles

Steven M. Teles is an American political scientist. He is a professor at Johns Hopkins University, as well as a senior fellow at the Niskanen Center.^[1][2] Notable writings include The Captured Economy: How The Powerful Enrich Themselves, Slow Down Growth and Increase Inequality with Brink Lindsey,^[3][4] Prison Break: Why Conservatives Turned Against Mass Incarceration with David Dagan,^[5][6] and The Rise of the Conservative Legal Movement,^[7] as well as the original paper about Cost disease socialism with Samuel Hammond and Daniel Takash.^[8] He is also known for coining the term "kludgeocracy" to describe the phenomenon of overly-complicated governmental solutions to social problems.^[9][10]

Steven Teles
Steven Teles in 2019
Occupation	Political scientist
Employers	Johns Hopkins University Niskanen Center