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Mark T. Conard

American
1965 - Present
Edward W. Conard is an American businessman, author and scholar. He 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. Conard is an adjunct fellow at the American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research. Previously, he was a managing director at Bain Capital, where he worked closely with former presidential candidate Mitt Romney.
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The Simpsons and Philosophy: The D'oh! of Homer (Popular Culture by
The Simpsons and Philosophy: The D'oh! of Homer (Popular Culture by

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This non-fiction essay collection from Open Court uses The Simpsons as a lens for serious philosophical inquiry, drawing on eighteen academic contributors to explore ethics, religion, pleasure, and Western thought — and has sold over 203,000 copies to become the bestselling volume in Open Court's Popular Culture and Philosophy series.

Reviewed Mar 11, 2026

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