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Unintended Consequences: Why Everything You've Been Told About the Economy Is Wrong

Unintended Consequences: Why Everything You've Been Told About the Economy Is Wrong - Paperback

by Edward Conard
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Availability:In StockContributor:Edward ConardAudience:Young AdultPublish date:2013-04-30Pages:320
Language:EnglishPublisher:Penguin Publishing GroupISBN-13:9781591846307ISBN-10:1591846307UPC:9781591846307Book Category:Business & Economics, Political ScienceBook Subcategory:Economic Conditions, Public Policy, Personal FinanceBook Topic:Economic Policy, TaxationSize:8.40 x 5.40 x 1.00 inchesWeight:0.6107Product ID:SCFPYC10F4
Was our country's economic success before the Crash of '08 built on false pretenses? Did we simply borrow and spend too much, or was something else really going on?

The conventional wisdom now accuses Wall Street and the mortgage industry of using predatory tactics to seduce homeowners. Meanwhile, average Americans are blamed for increasing consumption to unsustainable levels by borrowing recklessly. And the tax policies of the Reagan and Bush administrations are blamed for encouraging reckless risk-taking.

Edward Conard disagrees. In an attempt to set the record straight he presents a fascinating new case for how the economy really works, why the U.S. has outperformed other countries, what caused the financial crisis, and what improvements might better protect our economy without damaging growth.

Language:EnglishPublisher:Penguin Publishing GroupISBN-13:9781591846307ISBN-10:1591846307UPC:9781591846307Book Category:Business & Economics, Political ScienceBook Subcategory:Economic Conditions, Public Policy, Personal FinanceBook Topic:Economic Policy, TaxationSize:8.40 x 5.40 x 1.00 inchesWeight:0.6107Product ID:SCFPYC10F4

Edward "Ed" Conard is the author of the New York Times top-ten bestselling book, Unintended Consequences: Why Everything You've Been Told About the Economy Is Wrong (2012). He is a visiting scholar at the American Enterprise Institute. Previously, he was a founding partner of Bain Capital, where he worked closely with his friend and colleague, former presidential candidate Mitt Romney.

In May of 2012, Conard published Unintended Consequences: Why Everything You've Been Told About the Economy Is Wrong. The book was featured on the cover of the New York Times Sunday Magazine and went on to become a New York Times top ten non-fiction bestseller. Because of the publicity surrounding the publication of his book, Conard was the tenth most searched author on Google in 2012.

Since its publication, Mr. Conard has made over 100 television appearances in which he has debated leading economists including Paul Krugman, Joe Stiglitz, Alan Kruger, Austan 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.

Prior to Bain Capital, Conard worked for Wasserstein Perella & Co., an investment bank that specialized in mergers and acquisitions, and Bain & Company, a management-consulting firm, where he led the firm's industrial practice.

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.

For up-to-date information on Ed, visit the homepage: www.EdwardConard.com

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Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group

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