Podcasts Business Non-Profit Macro Musings with David Beckworth Heather Boushey on Income Inequality and Automatic Stabilizers

Heather Boushey on Income Inequality and Automatic Stabilizers

Published: July 8, 2019, 4:30 a.m.

Heather Boushey is the executive director at the Washington Center for Equitable Growth, a think tank founded to accelerate cutting edge analysis into whether and how structural changes in the US economy affect economic growth. Heather recently co-edited a book titled, *Recession Ready: Fiscal Policies to Stabilize the American Economy,* and she joins the show today to discuss it. David and Heather also discuss income inequality, automatic stabilizers for fiscal policy, and how monetary policy intersects with these issues.

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Transcript for the episode:\xa0https://www.mercatus.org/bridge/podcasts/07082019/income-inequality-and-automatic-stabilizers

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Heather\u2019s Twitter: @HBoushey

Heather\u2019s Equitable Growth profile: https://equitablegrowth.org/people/heather-boushey/

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Equitable Growth\u2019s funded research page: https://equitablegrowth.org/elevating-research/funded-research/

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*Recession Ready: Fiscal Policies to Stabilize the American Economy* by Heather Boushey, Ryan Nunn, and Jay Shambaugh
https://www.brookings.edu/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/ES_THP_AutomaticStabilizers_FullBook_web_20190513.pdf

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*Public Infrastructure Investments, Productivity and Welfare in\xa0Fixed Geographic Areas* by Andrew Haughwout

https://www.newyorkfed.org/research/staff_reports/sr104.html

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David\u2019s blog: macromarketmusings.blogspot.com
David\u2019s Twitter: @DavidBeckworth