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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 stability. Do we have to choose between equality and prosperity? Many think that reducing economic inequality would require such heavy-handed 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 cutting-edge economics with journalistic verve, she shows how rising inequality has become a drag on growth and an impediment to a competitive United States marketplace for employers and employees alike. Boushey 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 tha
- Author
- Heather Boushey
- Publisher
- Harvard University, Department of Sanskrit & Indian Studies
- Published
- 2019
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780674251380
- Subjects
- Business, Economics, Political Science
- Rating
- 4.6 / 5 (55 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
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