Podcasts Government City Journal's 10 Blocks Growth and Equality

Growth and Equality

Published: Feb. 7, 2018, 2:10 p.m.

Amity Shlaes\xa0joins\xa0Seth Barron\xa0to discuss\xa0the competing goals of\xa0economic growth and income equality, and\xa0to take a look at\xa0how American\xa0presidents in the\xa0twentieth\xa0century have\xa0approached these issues.

Polls show\xa0that support for income redistribution is growing among younger generations of Americans, but such policies have a poor track record of achieving their goals.\xa0As Shlaes writes in her\xa0feature story\xa0in the Winter 2018 Issue of\xa0City Journal: "Prioritizing equality over markets and growth hurts markets and growth and, most important, the low earners for whom social-justice advocates claim to fight."

Amity Shlaes\xa0chairs the board of the Calvin Coolidge Presidential Foundation and serves as presidential scholar at\xa0The King's College. She is the\xa0author of\xa0Coolidge\xa0and\xa0The Forgotten Man: A New History of the Great Depression.