Edward Conard

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Upside of Inequality Unintended Consequences Oxford
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Tyler Cowen’s Marginal Revolution Reviews Unintended Consequences

Part 1 Edward Conard, author of Unintended Consequences: Why Everything You’ve Been Told About the Economy is Wrong, offers a hypothesis.  He suggests the underlying cause is the (relatively recent) prevalence of risk-averse foreign capital: With an abundance of risk-averse offshore capital, the constraint to increase investment and risk taking has been the capacity of risk underwriters, not capital providers.  Today, Wall Street uses financial innovation to decouple ... Read More


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