The Upside of Inequality with Ed Conard
Economics Detective Radio
English - November 12, 2016 16:53 - 54 minutes - 50.1 MB - ★★★★★ - 61 ratingsSocial Sciences Science News money science economics education finance hayek history macroeconomics microeconomics mises Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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My guest today is Ed Conard, here to discuss his recent book, The Upside of Inequality: How Good Intentions Undermine the Middle Class. He is a visiting scholar at the American Enterprise Institute and a former managing director at Bain Capital.
His 2012 book, Unintended Consequences: Why Everything You've Been Told About the Economy Is Wrong was a New York Times bestseller. Because his business partner Mitt Romney was running for President at the time, many people expected the book to be a defense of the one percent. It wasn't, but this new book is!
We had a wide-ranging discussion that touched on inequality, immigration, entrepreneurship, finance, and housing.