Edward Conard has published two top-ten New York Times bestsellers, The Upside of Inequality: How Good Intentions Undermine the Middle Class and Unintended Consequences: Why Everything You’ve Been Told about the Economy is Wrong. Most recently he contributed a chapter, “The Economics of Inequality in High-Wage Economies” to Oxford University Press’ United States Income, Wealth, Consumption, and Inequality. The books have received a variety of positive reviews from noteworthy economists including the former president of Harvard University and economist Larry Summers, a very tough critic on the other side of the aisle, who blurbed: “I disagree but respect the argument,” calling it “a very valuable contribution” that will “sharpen your thinking on critical economic issues.”
He is a Nonresident Fellow at the American Enterprise Institute and a retired Bain Capital Partner.