PDF-(EBOOK)-Unbound: How Inequality Constricts Our Economy and What We Can Do about It

From one of Washingtons most influential voices on economic policy a lively and original argument that reducing inequality is not just fair but also key to delivering broadly shared economic growth and stabilityDo we have to choose between equality and prosperity Many think that reducing economic inequality would require such heavyhanded interference with market forces that it would stifle economic growth Heather Boushey one of Washingtons most influential economic voices insists nothing could be further from the truth Presenting cuttingedge economics with journalistic verve she shows how rising inequality has become a drag on growth and an impediment to a competitive US marketplace for employers and employees alikeBoushey argues that inequality undermines growth in three ways It obstructs the supply of talent ideas and capital as wealthy families monopolize the best educational social and economic opportunities It also subverts private competition and public investment Powerful corporations muscle competitors out of business in the process costing consumers suppressing wages and hobbling innovation while governments underfund key public goods that make the American Dream possible from schools to transportation infrastructure to information and communication technology networks Finally it distorts consumer demand as stagnant wages and meager workplace benefits rob ordinary people of buying power and pushes the economy toward financial instabilityBoushey makes this case with a clear accessible tour of the best of contemporary economic research while also injecting a passion for her subject gained through years of research into the economics of worklife conflict and policy work in the trenches of federal government Unbound exposes deep problems in the US economy but its conclusion is optimistic We can preserve the best of our nations economic and political traditions and improve on them by pursuing policies that reduce inequalityand by doing so boost broadly shared economic growth. . 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