Cato’s Vice President for Research Brink Lindsey is author of the new book from Collins press, The Age of Abundance: How Prosperity Transformed America’s Politics and Culture. In a forum here at the institute, Brink discussed the impact of our economic abundance on the political and cultural directions American society has traced since the 1950s. This video features an excerpt from that speech.

(See the full event: The Age of Abundance: How Prosperity Transformed America’s Politics and Culture.)