Heather Boushey is President and CEO of the Washington Center for Equitable Growth and former Chief Economist on Hillary Clinton’s transition team. She is the author of Finding Time: The Economics of Work-Life Conflict and coeditor of After Piketty: The Agenda for Economics and Inequality (both from Harvard). The New York Times has called Boushey one of the “most vibrant voices in the field” and Politico twice named her one of the top 50 “thinkers, doers, and visionaries transforming American politics.”
For a long time, the argument over inequality was about whether it
was the price that had to be paid for a dynamic economy. In this
outstanding book, Heather Boushey…turns this upside down. She shows
that, beyond a point, inequality damages the economy by limiting
the quantity and quality of human capital and skills, blocking
access to opportunity, underfunding public services, facilitating
predatory rent-seeking, weakening aggregate demand, and increasing
reliance on unsustainable credit.
*Financial Times*
A timely and very useful guide…Boushey assimilates a great deal of
recent economic research and argues that it amounts to a paradigm
shift.
*New Yorker*
In Unbound Heather Boushey presents the strongest documentation I
have seen for the many ways in which inequality is harmful to
economic growth. Anyone interested in just about any aspect of
economic policy, from education to antitrust to macroeconomics,
will learn something from this important book.
*Jason Furman, former Chairman of the Council of Economic
Advisers*
Think rising levels of inequality are just an inevitable outcome of
our market-driven economy? Then you should read Boushey’s
well-argued, well-documented explanation of why you’re wrong.
*MIT Technology Review*
From one of Washington’s most influential voices on economic…a
lively and original argument that reducing inequality is not only
fair but also key to delivering broadly shared economic growth and
stability.
*Omidyar Network*
Brilliant…Boushey connects [the] dots in a remarkable and
refreshing manner. Even for people who have studied the issue, the
links and specific policy issues she identifies are illuminating…It
is an important cautionary tale: we get the inequality that we
choose, regardless of whether we are aware that we are making a
choice.
*Project Syndicate*
Offer[s] up an almost encyclopedic rendition of inequality’s impact
on the U.S. economy…The depth of evidence that Boushey compiles is
extremely impressive.
*LSE Review of Books*
Lays out a powerful argument on how inequality harms growth,
competition, and innovation.
*ProMarket*
A rising tide used to lift all boats, but decades of rising
economic inequality and wage stagnation have changed that. In
Unbound Heather Boushey provides a clear and compelling analysis of
the many ways income and wealth inequality limits our economic
potential, drawing important lessons from cutting-edge economic
research. An invaluable addition to current economic policy
debates, Unbound is a must-read for those striving for inclusive
economic growth.
*Kimberly Clausing, author of Open: The Progressive Case for
Free Trade, Immigration, and Global Capital*
Copies of this book should be mailed to every legislator in the
country. It is a powerful summary of an enormous amount of the
latest and best economics research on inequality, presented clearly
and explained with accessible prose.
*Suresh Naidu, Columbia University*
There is a strange gap: a discipline like economics, which aims at
achieving the greatest good for the greatest number, ought to have
long ago focused on how costly inequality is for all—or almost
all—of us. But no. Now, Boushey’s Unbound expertly fills that
gap.
*J. Bradford DeLong, University of California, Berkeley*
A comprehensive and bracing view of how a new generation of
economists are rethinking one of the most fundamental social
problems facing societies around the world: inequality. Heather
Boushey offers a road map for policies that can lead to a more
equitable and just society and underscores the need for bold
thinking on political economy.
*David Weil, Dean and Professor, Heller School for Social Policy
and Management, Brandeis University*
Piercing.
*Next Avenue*
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