1. Edward W Conard is an American businessman, author and scholar.
20 Facts About Edward Conard
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Edward Conard 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, and the publisher of Macro Roundup.
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Edward Conard grew up in the Detroit metropolitan area and graduated with honors from the University of Michigan with a BSE in Operations Research in 1978.
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Edward Conard earned his MBA with distinction from Harvard Business School in 1982.
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Edward Conard was a managing director at Bain Capital, the head of Bain's New York office and the leader of its industrial practice.
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Edward Conard joined the firm in 1993 prior to the firm raising $300 million of private equity.
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When Edward Conard retired in 2007, Bain Capital managed $75 billion of capital and had offices in Boston, New York, San Francisco, London, Paris, Tokyo, Hong Kong, Shanghai, and Mumbai.
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Edward Conard retired from the board of Waters Corporation in 2024.
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Edward Conard is the author of two top-ten The New York Times bestsellers: Unintended Consequences: Why Everything You've Been Told About the Economy Is Wrong and The Upside of Inequality: How Good Intentions Undermine the Middle Class; a contributor to Oxford University Press' United States Income, Wealth, Consumption, and Inequality, and the publisher of Macro Roundup, a daily summary of salient economic news.
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Edward Conard became the tenth most searched author on Google in 2012 after publishing his first book.
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Edward Conard joined the American Enterprise Institute as a visiting scholar in 2012.
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Edward Conard published Unintended Consequences: Why Everything You've Been Told About the Economy Is Wrong in May 2012.
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Edward Conard summarizes his book in a 23-minute video for The UP Experience.
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Since its publication, Edward Conard has made over 250 television appearances in which he has debated leading economists including Paul Krugman, Joe Stiglitz, Alan Krueger, Austan Goolsbee, and Jared Bernstein; journalists including Fareed Zakaria, Chris Hayes, and Andrew Ross Sorkin; and politicians such as Barney Frank, Howard Dean, and Eliot Spitzer.
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Edward Conard debated Jon Stewart for 33 minutes, one of Stewart's longest interviews.
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Edward Conard has written op-eds for The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, Foreign Affairs, Harvard Business Review, Fortune, and Politico, among others.
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Edward Conard published The Upside of Inequality: How Good Intentions Undermine the Middle Class in September 2016.
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Edward Conard is very creative in seeing some of the implications of this view.
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In March 2011, Edward Conard made a $1 million US dollar contribution to the super PAC promoting Mitt Romney's candidacy in the 2012 US Presidential Election through W Spann LLC, a shell corporation that rendered him anonymous and appeared to exist for the sole purpose of contributing to Romney's campaign.
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Edward Conard is married to Jill Davis, an author and former writer for the Late Show with David Letterman.