“CBS Sunday Morning” feature on inequality, which includes Hitler, Marie Antoinette, beatings, starving paupers in coffins, Thomas Piketty, and poverty statistics that don’t account for the trillion dollars America spends helping the poor, gives me 20 seconds to defend capitalism. Here are all the things I said that they chose not to use. https://edwardconard.wistia.com/medias/bm46pvbgkl?embedType=async&videoFoam=true&videoWidth=640 ... Read More
Ben Shapiro Again Recommends Ed Conard’s NYT Bestselling Books
Ben Shapiro again recommended Ed Conard’s New York Times bestselling books, The Upside of Inequality: How Good Intentions Undermine the Middle Class (2016) and Unintended Consequences: Why Everything You’ve Been Told About the Economy is Wrong (2012). https://edwardconard.wistia.com/medias/row9fnmd4n?embedType=async&videoFoam=true&videoWidth=640 ... Read More
Frank Hill Reviews The Upside of Inequality for The North State Journal
Review: The Upside of Inequality by Frank Hill for The North State Journal Many people hear the term “income inequality” and think: “We gotta do something to fix that!” Which almost always means pass more legislation and give more power to government officials. Ed Conard, former managing partner of Bain Capital, thinks differently. He sees rising income inequality as a good sign for an economy, not as a negative. As he writes in his eminently readable book, ... Read More
Ed Conard Discusses His NYT bestselling book The Upside of Inequality at Susquehanna University
Ed discusses his top-ten New York Times bestselling book The Upside of Inequality with Matt Rousu, Dean of Susquehanna University’s Sigmund Weis School of Business and students. Discussion https://edwardconard.wistia.com/medias/ttn51hknpq?embedType=async&videoFoam=true&videoWidth=640 Q&A https://edwardconard.wistia.com/medias/zerx440hj3?embedType=async&videoFoam=true&videoWidth=640 ... Read More
Exposing Socialism’s Cost to the Middle Class on Fox Nation’s “Deep Dive”
I expose the cost of socialism to the middle class, its long term effect on economic growth, and whether libertarianism can win elections with the Wall Street Journal’s Mary Anastasia O’Grady. https://edwardconard.wistia.com/medias/vx20bp1yce?embedType=async&videoWidth=640 PART 2 https://edwardconard.wistia.com/medias/9n5auprzx6?embedType=async&videoWidth=640 ... Read More
Upside of Inequality Available in Ukrainian!
The Ukrainian translation of my top-ten New York Times bestselling book The Upside of Inequality is now available! ... Read More
Discussing How The Upside of Inequality Is Faster U.S Economic Growth and Higher Wages on “Varney & Co.”
Stuart Varney and I discuss my top-ten bestselling book The Upside of Inequality on Fox Business’s Varney & Co. What is the upside of inequality? It’s faster U.S. economic growth and American middle-class incomes that are 15 to 30% higher than in Northern Europe and Japan. https://edwardconard.wistia.com/medias/jxmhr9s0w1?embedType=async&videoWidth=640 ... Read More
