UNC Asheville Economics Webinar with Heather Boushey, Author of “Unbound: How Inequality Constricts Our Economy and What We Can Do about It”

UPDATE – See the Aug. 28 New York Times profile of Heather Boushey here.

UNC Asheville will begin a series of a free webinars on economics with a talk at noon on Thursday, Sept. 3, by Heather Boushey, president and CEO of the Washington Center for Equitable Growth, and author of Unbound: How Inequality Constricts Our Economy and What We Can Do about It. This online event is free and open to everyone via Zoom, with registration available at this link.

This series is presented by UNC Asheville’s Department of Economics, the Cary Caperton Owen Professorship in Economics, and the student Economics Club.

Heather Boushey bio

Heather Boushey is the President & CEO and co-founder of the Washington Center for Equitable Growth, which was launched in 2013. She is one of the nation’s most influential voices on economic policy and a leading economist who focuses on the intersection between economic inequality, growth, and public policy. Her latest book, Unbound: How Economic Inequality Constricts Our Economy and What We Can Do About It (Harvard University Press), which was called “outstanding” and “piercing” by reviewers, was on the Financial Times list of best economics books of 2019. She is also the author of Finding Time: The Economics of Work-Life Conflict, and co-edited a volume of 22 essays about how to integrate inequality into economic thinking called After Piketty: The Agenda for Economics and Inequality.

The New York Times has called Boushey one of the “most vibrant voices in the field,” and Politico twice named her one of the top 50 “thinkers, doers and visionaries transforming American politics.” Boushey writes regularly for popular media, including The New York Times, The Atlantic, and Democracy Journal, and she makes frequent television appearances on Bloomberg, MSNBC, CNBC, and PBS. She previously served as chief economist for Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s 2016 presidential transition team and as an economist for the Center for American Progress, the Joint Economic Committee of the U.S. Congress, the Center for Economic and Policy Research, and the Economic Policy Institute. She sits on the board of the Opportunity Institute and is an associate editor of Feminist Economics, and a senior fellow at the Schwartz Center for Economic and Policy Analysis at the New School for Social Research.

Upcoming webinars in this series

Sept. 17 – Dietrich Vollrath, Professor and Chair of the Economics Department at the University of Houston and author of Fully Grown: Why a Stagnant Economy is a Sign of Success. 7 p.m. via Zoom

Oct. 8 – Tomáš Sedláček, chief macroeconomic strategist at Czech commercial bank CSOB and author of Economics of Good and Evil: the Quest for Economic Meaning from Gilgamesh to Wall Street. Noon via Zoom.

Oct. 15 – William Darity, the Samuel DuBois Cook Distinguished Professor of Public Policy at Duke University and co-author with Kirsten Mullen of From Here to Equality: Reparations for Black Americans in the Twenty-First Century. 7 p.m. via Zoom.

For more information, please contact UNC Asheville’s Department of Economics at 828.251.6550.