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Brink Lindsey
American political scientist
Brink Lindsey is an American political writer, and Vice President and Director of the Open Society Project at the Niskanen Center.[1] Previously he was the Cato Institute's vice president for research.[2] From 1998 to 2004, he was director of Cato's Center for Trade Policy Studies,[3] focusing on free trade, and also editor of Cato Unbound, a monthly web magazine. He was a senior fellow with the Kauffman Foundation from 2010 to 2012.[2] An attorney with a background in international trade regulation, Lindsey was formerly director of regulatory studies at Cato and senior editor of Regulation magazine.
He is a contributing editor at Reason magazine and a frequent discussion guest on BloggingHeads.tv and often moderates Cato panel discussions. A registered Republican and self-proclaimed libertarian, he endorsed Sen. Barack Obama during the 2008 presidential campaign. He has written on a broad range of topics including trade,[4] economic growth,[5] cultural division,[6] economic inequality,[7] the nature of IQ scores,[8] and helicopter parents.[9]