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. Notable writings include The Captured Economy: How The Powerful Enrich Themselves, Slow Down Growth and Increase Inequality with Brink Lindsey, Prison Break: Why Conservatives Turned Against Mass Incarceration with David Dagan, and The Rise of the Conservative Legal Movement, as well as the original paper about Cost [disease socialism] with Samuel Hammond and Daniel Takash. He is also known for coining the term "kludgeocracy" to describe the phenomenon of overly-complicated governmental solutions to social problems.