Edward Conard Quotes


Unfortunately, we have to dial down low-skilled immigration. We have to recognize that there is more unemployment among the lesser-skilled workers than among the most-skilled workers.


Citations

Conard, Edward. Interview by Hari Sreenivasan. "How a Defender of Inequality Explains Our Economic Divide." PBS NewsHour, Public Broadcasting Service, 18 Sept. 2016.

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Edward Conard
Edward Conard
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  • Profession: Businessman

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.