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 ... Read More
Ed Conard’s Media Appearances
Conard has made over 200 media appearances and has debated top economists and journalists including Nobel Prize-winning economists Paul Krugman, Joe Stiglitz, and Ken Arrow, former CEA chairs Austen Goolsbee, Greg Mankiw, and Kevin Hasset, and a variety of journalists, including Fareed Zakaria, Andrew Ross Sorkin, and Jon Stewart. He has also won two IQ2 debates by defeating the motions “Income Inequality Impairs the American Dream of Upward Mobility” and “Central ... Read More
About Macro Roundup
My research staff searches academic papers, blogs, and the media for facts, opinions, and arguments I might find useful, but otherwise may not have seen. As such, their summary is intended to supplement the news, not rehash it. From their review, they produce a daily and weekly summary as well as a searchable database of past entries. As a public service, I make their work freely available to anyone who might have an interest—e.g. economists, policymakers, investors, ... Read More
Valentine’s Day: This man devised a formula for finding love, and followed it
By Justin Rowlatt BBC News What’s the best way to find the husband or wife of your dreams? Think what society tells us about finding the perfect life partner: it’s all about love; follow your instincts; it’s down to fate. Now consider what would happen if you followed similar advice in your job, or even trying to run a company. Imagine telling investors you hadn’t done any market research, had no long-term plan and hadn’t bothered to ... Read More
