Unbound
How Inequality Constricts Our Economy and What We Can Do about It

Had to read this book for pub aff class lol (would not have picked it up on my own), but I thought it was pretty good. Argues that we don’t have to choose between equality and prosperity if only we can implement effective social policies and STOP TAX CUTS FOR THE RICH obvi lol to afford said policie......more

Well done taking dry left brain data and putting meaningful right brain meat on its bones. Heather Boushey brilliantly deconstructs how market libertarians have misappropriated Adam Smith for their own ideology of selfish gain at the expense of society's rightful economic health. With facts and data......more

Heather makes the argument that economic inequality is fundamentally important to understanding the dynamics of the economy and that economics is undergoing a paradigm shift to include and think about this as new data is measured and old data is processed. She gives a few helpful insights of what to......more

O livro compila uma série de estudos com o intuito de avaliar o problema da crescente desigualdade econômica nos Estados Unidos. A esse respeito, há um grande disclaimer sobre a necessidade de o trabalho ser encarado como um estudo de caso bastante específico para o país em questão. Logo, um leitor......more

Boushey does a nice job of making a historical case for the importance of the differences in income between upper and lower income earners and explains how this can cause other social ills. Her perspective is that the underlying factors, which to her are mainly in the private sector, of income inequ......more