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American businessman, author and scholar

Edward W. Conard is an American businessman, author and scholar. He is a 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; a contributor to Oxford University Press' United States Income, Wealth, Consumption, and Inequality,^[1]and the publisher of Macro Roundup.

Conard is an adjunct fellow at the American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research.^[2] Previously, he was a managing director at Bain Capital, where he worked closely with former presidential candidate Mitt Romney.^[3]

Early life and education

Conard grew up in the Detroit metropolitan area^[4] and graduated with honors from the University of Michigan with a BSE in Operations Research in 1978.^[2] He earned his MBA with distinction from Harvard