Edward Conard

Visiting Scholar

AEI & Former Partner of the Bain Capital

Edward Conard is the author of the New York Times top-ten bestselling books “Unintended Consequences: Why Everything You’ve Been Told About the Economy Is Wrong” (2012) and “The Upside of Inequality: How Good Intentions Undermine the Middle Class” (2016). He is a visiting scholar at the American Enterprise Institute and was previously a founding partner of Bain Capital. Since the publication of Unintended Consequences, Conard has made over 100 television appearances in which he has debated leading economists including Paul Krugman, Joe Stiglitz, Alan Kruger, Austen Goolsbee, and Jared Bernstein; journalists including Jon Stewart, Fareed Zakaria, Chris Hayes, and Andrew Ross Sorkin; and politicians such as Barney Frank, Howard Dean, and Eliot Spitzer. Conard has a master of business administration degree from Harvard Business School and a bachelor of science degree in engineering from the University of Michigan.

Debates Featuring Edward Conard

Central Banks Can Print Prosperity

With Roger Bootle, Edward Conard, Andrew Huszar, Simon Johnson
November 18, 2015

Central banks all around the world have been printing money. This policy, known as quantitative easing in banker jargon, has driven up the price of stocks and bonds. But will it lead to real and sustainable increases in global growth, or is it sowing the seeds of future inflation? To view the full debate visit Wondrium.

Central Banks Can Print Prosperity

Central banks all around the world have been printing money. This policy, known as quantitative easing in banker jargon, has driven up the price of stocks and bonds. But will it lead to real and…

With Roger Bootle, Edward Conard, Andrew Huszar, Simon Johnson
November 18, 2015

Income Inequality Impairs The American Dream Of Upward Mobility

With Edward Conard, Elise Gould, Nick Hanauer, Scott Winship
October 22, 2014

Income inequality has been on the rise for decades. In the last 30 years, the wages of the top 1% have grown by 154%, while the bottom 90% has seen growth of only 17%. As the rungs of the economic ladder move further and further apart, conventional wisdom says that it will become much more difficult to climb them. Opportunities for upward mobility—the American dream—will disappear as the deck becomes stacked against the middle class and the poor. But others…

Income Inequality Impairs The American Dream Of Upward Mobility

Income inequality has been on the rise for decades. In the last 30 years, the wages of the top 1% have grown by 154%, while the bottom 90% has seen growth of only 17%. As…

With Edward Conard, Elise Gould, Nick Hanauer, Scott Winship
October 22, 2014

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Central Banks Can Print Prosperity

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Income Inequality Impairs The American Dream Of Upward Mobility

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