Edward Conard Quotes
I try not to delve too deep into policy.
Davidson, Adam. "The Purpose of Spectacular Wealth, According to a Spectacularly Wealthy Guy." The New York Times Magazine, 1 May 2012.
This quotation has been used to caution groups fighting for their rights to do so carefully and avoid backlash such as has occurred with abortion rights, same sex marriage, and Negro voting.
This was a subtle criticism of the Presidential Candidate Donald Trump whose only experience was in real estate development, reality TV, and promotion. This was in contrast to his opponent Hillary Clinton who had had vast experience at many roles and levels of government.
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Edward W. Conard is an American businessman, author and scholar. He is the New York Times bestselling author of The Upside of Inequality: How Good Intentions Undermine the Middle Class and Unintended Consequences: Why Everything You've Been Told About the Economy Is Wrong; and a contributor to Oxford University Press’ United States Income, Wealth, Consumption, and Inequality. Conard is an adjunct fellow at the American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research. Previously, he was a managing director at Bain Capital, where he worked closely with former presidential candidate Mitt Romney.
