Brink Lindsey
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Brink Lindsey was the Cato Institute
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's vice president
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 for research. He was also editor
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 of Cato Unbound, a monthly web magazine. From 1998 to 2004, he was director of Cato's Center for Trade Policy Studies, helping to make it a leading voice for free trade
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. An attorney
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 with extensive experience 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, where he was a leading voice in support of the Iraq war,http://reason.com/archives/2002/10/29/no-more-9-11s and a frequent discussion guest on BloggingHeads.tv
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.

Lindsey holds an A.B.
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 from Princeton University
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 and a J.D.
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 from Harvard Law School
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.

Lindsey, a registered Republican
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, has endorsed Sen. Barack Obama
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 during the 2008 presidential campaign
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. A self proclaimed "Obamacon", Lindsey expressed his frustrations with the current state of the Republican Party in a June 17, 2008 BloggingHeads.tv
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 dialog, A Real Live Obamacon!

Publications

  • Brink Lindsey. 2007. The Age of Abundance: How Prosperity Transformed America's Politics and Culture. ISBN 0060747668.
  • Brink Lindsey, Daniel J. Ikenson. 2003. Antidumping Exposed: The Devilish Details of Unfair Trade Law. ISBN 1930865481.
  • Brink Lindsey. 2002. Against the Dead Hand: The Uncertain Struggle for Global Capitalism. ISBN 0471442771.

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See also

  • Obama Republican
    Obama Republican
    United States President Barack Obama, a member of the Democratic Party, was endorsed or supported by some members of the Republican Party and by some political figures holding conservative views in the 2008 election...

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