Book Review: Unbound: How Inequality Constricts Our Economy and What We Can Do About It, by Heather Boushey

Abstract

The 2020 US Presidential election is less than a year away and competing claims about the state of the US economy will inevitably dominate the selection process. Heather Boushey, the former Chief Economist on Hillary Clinton’s transition team, is obviously extremely well-placed to comment on the causes and consequences of economic inequality in the US. And her new book, Unbound: How Inequality Constricts Our Economy and What We Can Do About It, does exactly that, offering up an almost encyclopaedic rendition of inequality’s impact on the US economy.